by Mr Changsha on Tue Aug 14, 2012 4:07 am
Gaming styles i am basically rubbish at...
1. Standard escalating: I've read about it, I've tried it and I've even attempted to think about it a bit...but it is a style my brain simply refuses to wrap itself around. On a basis of gaining territories early that allows you to then prosecute your advantage I get it, but the high level methods used currently that ignores territory gains and bonuses makes no sense to me at all. Don't try and explain it to me...I honestly believe me mind is incapable of processing it.
2. Complicated maps (anything by quert): Bombardment points, division or general bonuses, tanks, planes and ships, aggressive neutrals..I look at these maps, I am capable of understanding them, but I fail to see how my strategies for Risk can be applied to them. Partly it is due to the map looking so horribly crowded that puts me off, but i suspect it is more a case of my poor old brain (which is not the best tactically even on traditional maps) being rather crap at coping with all the tactical possibilities these maps provide.
3. 2on2 Dubs: My record is surprisingly patchy on this form...as in a touch below 50 percent. This is partly caused by my often 'trying out things' (i.e maps) on this form, but I do believe my team game strategy is basically designed for trips and doesn't seem to work out properly on this form. I always feel I am missing some weapons when I play dubs. Large map dubs has the same issue for me as small map trips, in that the first round is often too decisive for my tastes. A definite weakness.
4. Fog: While I am capable of just about holding my own at speed fog, the casual game is beyond me because I lack the kind of brain able to analyse a log and work out where people are and what they are up to. I am literally and completely 'in the fog' when I play these games...a genuine baby on the field. Again, is it that I haven't tried hard enough at this form? I don't think so. Our brains are all wired in different ways, and this is yet another style I consider myself too thick to play.
5. Freestyle. It still takes me about 10 seconds PER THROW, never mind to conquer a territory. While the freestyle whizz kid (and I probably incorrectly assume they are usually young) is zipping through the territories, I am still contemplating my first roll, how my karma has been these days, did I think positively enough, should I exit and re enter the game again to catch a better luck stream...and by then the game is over.
Now my standard response over the years has always been to try and get these forms removed from CC because basically I am not very good at them. On that basis they offend me terribly. Nonetheless, I am more than prepared to admit I am too stupid to play them adequetly and, I think, it would do no one any harm to accept that the reason they don't like certain maps or styles of the game is most probably due to that they are too stupid to play them properly.
