Initial reinforcement-advantaged player should move second.
Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2025 4:05 am
A simple enough suggestion, on any map where one player is starting with more reinforcements than his opponent, the default setting (instead of random selection) should be that the player with the additional starting reinforcements moves second.
Seems intrinsically fair in terms of making things more balanced, and would help avoid what I’m sure many find quite annoying in terms of games that are heavily imbalanced/effectively lost from the beginning (given roughly equal play, and barring some countervailing good dice luck) due to the power of the first move with additional starting troops to work with to further knock down the opponent’s initial reinforcements.
And in team games or even free-for-all games I would suggest similarly if one player (that might otherwise have been randomly chosen to move first) or team has an initial reinforcement advantage.
Seems intrinsically fair in terms of making things more balanced, and would help avoid what I’m sure many find quite annoying in terms of games that are heavily imbalanced/effectively lost from the beginning (given roughly equal play, and barring some countervailing good dice luck) due to the power of the first move with additional starting troops to work with to further knock down the opponent’s initial reinforcements.
And in team games or even free-for-all games I would suggest similarly if one player (that might otherwise have been randomly chosen to move first) or team has an initial reinforcement advantage.