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| 16 Mar 2007 3:58 AM |
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One time when I was playing, 3 people ganged up against someone and still that someone won the match.
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Ehsan Honary
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| 16 Mar 2007 3:59 AM |
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Lucky him/her 
I can think of many reasons:
- The ganging up happened too late. The player was already way too powerfull to be contained.
- The player was able to get to a resourceful position in the early game (either by luck or by startegy) that he could then exploit to win the war.
- The players who ganged up were new to the game and The player was an experienced one. He could therefore take advantage of his knowledge in end-game scenarios when the others didnt know what to do.
- He was very diplomatical in dealing with issues, so he could managed to manipulate the opponents attacks such that they would attack the wrong borders and not the most volunerable ones. Sometimes, all a player needs do is to take advantage of a temporary situation, and with a bit luck, he can use it to flip the game to his benefit.
and I guess there must be other reasons ... anyone? |
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| 16 Mar 2007 3:59 AM |
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Or it could be like that one scenario and the person fought his way to japan or something and built up his army fast enough or people started to ignore him and he came back and won
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| 16 Mar 2007 4:00 AM |
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| rolling makes a difference. Or perhaps practicing necromancy and raising dead soldiers to fight once again! I figure if u have 3 people teaming up on you for out of game reasons, like the hate u, its fair to smuggle in troops to make it fair. Its one of those two wrongs make a right things |
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| 16 Mar 2007 4:00 AM |
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Agreed, rolling can be a huge factor. I have been set up to win it all, but be denied because of rolling. Another thing is strategy, the other 3 fellows may have not been in a position to defeat him/her, or placed badly.
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| 16 Mar 2007 4:00 AM |
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I play with 3 friends every other weekend or so, and it isn't uncommon for them to all team up against me. I usually seem to be able to pull it off, and here are some of the main reasons I think a three on one is not impossible.
- One of the big ones it that they don't attack each other and take over new continents. They have an alliance, so usually they only attack one allied territory per turn to gain a card, the nlet their ally retake it on the next turn. This gets them no continental bonuses, because the only continent they can capture without eliminating large numbers of their allys are the continents that I own.
- One of the friends I play with is very easy to trick into certain alliances. Even in a 3 on 1, it isn't very hard to convince him to call a truce at certain borders for a few turns, allowing me to place 1 army there, and concentrate on offensives in other areas.
- Much like the game of poker, when you play multiple times with the same guys you can begin to profile them and anticipate how they will attack and how their game will go. You can base your strategys off of this.
There's others, but I think these are the three big ones. |
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cyray7
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| 03 Jun 2007 6:35 PM |
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| that was a really short post. I mean, details? You probably know why, dice rolls, the attack was too late, or what? You were the one there, so you can probably figure it out. One solution was that they used the bottleneck strategy, so only one opponent could attack them at a time. I think i'll need more information to figure this out, but you know the answer don't you? It really depends on the circumstances, a one sentence question with so many possibilities cannot be deduced in that way. |
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