I think it's a big improvement.

Having neither clickable maps nor scripts, I invariably lose in the speed/freestyle games.

If I were to stick with only sequential (even casual/freestyle seems a bit wild), my rank would probably hover around upper sgt or lower lt.

I have _never_ won in speed/freestyle. They're a blast though.

I've seen this with non-members, too. You start a game, and they join. If you're not there in real-time; and instead do a turn or two per day, some of them get nasty.

1. How did you hear about Conquer Club?

From an advertisement at www.itsyourturn.com

2. What do you like most about CC?

The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat.

3. What is one thing you learned right off the bat?

How easy it is to, in games make miscalculations and flat-out mistakes ...

The Arms Race! board is one of the best on this site.

Most games on this map are with fog of war on.

In any event, it seems to me that you have to move fast in that game. Everyone is moving fast.

Just keep building, expanding; until you own the USA or USSR. Then try to get to the warhead first ...

It's the wins where I've got to play my best to seal the deal; knowing afterwards that any mistakes would have meant failure.

If the whole thing is easy, and a couple of 'mulligans' are allowed by circumstance along the way, it's not as satisfying.

But making a series of deft, no-margin-of-error ...

Knowing that the attacker has a slight edge in combat; a player should probably attempt to arrange all of their major battles as attacks.

You don't want to be caught defending in a big battle.

Over time, paying attention to this slight attacker's advantage; it could produce more wins for a player.

I went from really liking this map, to not wanting to play it. The colors are all washed out. There is little contrast between the lettering and the background. The entire thing is 'whitish.'

The old one was great.

These are my observations from playing some sequential games:

At the drop, you want to secure any easy territory grouping bonuses, and leave the ones filled with neutrals alone. Don't expose too many 1-army territories to your opponent.

On the offensive, you want to grab all the 1-army territories ...

Is it just my monitor or is this map, 'washed out?'

Is there a problem with the label "Oxfordshire" in the attack/reinforce lists, versus "Oxon" on the mapboard?

I liked the old map. This map is not an improvement; not on my monitor.

Semnolz and i were in this game with banockles and jonwilli. i didn't see it until today, when i went to join a banockles game and found out i'd been foed.

so i poked around and found this solitary game where i'd played banockles, and apparently Semnolz and i were being accused of cheating...

if ...

Well, the reinforcements are dependent on the drop and the attack results.

Say I have an initial drop which includes Frisange, Bous, Bourlingser, and Cappellen.

All of the territorial bonus groupings have at least one neutral; two neutrals in both the 4-territory, upper and central +3 bonuses. So ...

It's a bit more complicated than tic-tac-toe.

There _is_ a tremendous amount of luck. I routinely beat higher ranks, and lose to lower ranks; often based upon the initial drop and a couple of small auto-battles.

It's a tactical exercise; like a small piece of a larger map. It's a microcosm of a ...

I've found that, whenever posting 20 or 30 of these games, they usually fill up within minutes. With the small battles in each game, and playing several of them simultaneously, you can witness large fluxuations as the dice go for and against.

I can remember a 5-game series against this one dude ...

I've played about 160 of these (finished) so far, and have won around 95 of them. That's about 59%. I don't know if that makes me any kind of expert, but here are some of my observations so far.

No Spoils versus Cards: The spoils might arrive too late to affect the outcome of the game. Flat Rate is ...

After a mid-turn cash, you might have less armies than you began the turn with, but do you have enough to eliminate one or more of the remaining players and continue the cycle?

If you have enough to finish off another player and get another cash, and that would produce enough to eliminate yet ...

Another thing which could be done to speed up the 5-minute game would be to kick deadbeats out of the game for missing a single turn.

I like the idea for a 2-minute setting.

It seems many if not most of the Feudal War games are played with fog of war. If you're playing with fow, you want to watch the game log, and see how much fighting is going on.

In 6-player, as people are eliminated, you want to keep track of how many castles the strongest players have; same thing ...

Here is another one. I'm cornered at the north end of the Luxembourg map and he won't finish me off.

http://www.conquerclub.com/game.php?game=3995086

This guy seems to enjoying prolonging already-decided games. Is there any way to convince him to end games like this?

shanksdigs



The accused are suspected of:

Other: He won't finish a game where he's already won. I wouldn't mind much if I could ignore this, but these games stay at the top of ...

For simple maps, Doodle Earth and Luxembourg are great for quick games; either 2 or 8-player.

The two-player is like a microcosm of two players slugging it out over a portion of a larger map.

The 8-player is a quick free for all. There's no room for 8 players on these maps!

It seems like most all ...

You don't want to make those kinds of attacks unless you have to.

3:1 is the attack you want.

So you want to have at least 4 armies on the attacking territory.

Then look for a weak neighbor.

The 2:1, 2:2, 1:1, 1:2 attacks aren't the kind you want to make unless the situation is dire.

2:1 is ...

Talking Classic games: The best players are usually spread around the mapboard, so eliminating someone from the game often requires multiple attack routes.

Consider your attack paths when going for an elimination. Attempt the weakest series of attacks first. If the first phase fails, you can save ...

So the idea is that there might be more armies on the board at the beginning, rather than the end. The way it's set up... with so many of the new production arriving scattered all over the map, the player has to use reinforcements to put an attack together for round 2.

I'm not sure how it would ...

This one has 16 territory groupings - 8 land and 8 sea. The continents have 5 territories apiece, and the ocean groupings have 4. Territory groupings are based upon ability to make one-way attacks out of the grouping. The territory groupings with more one-way attacks outward are given more ...