**sighs**

FFA tourney. Constructed.

HamJu, ice9, TitanDesWalls & me. Big Four Corner map, full of resources but just two CPs right in the middle.

I go, like, “screw´em resources, let´s take the CPs in the middle ASAP, get a head start, and then let´em fight each other while I earn points”.

And so my forces do: merc plane, speed boost and airborne 2, they take both CPs by turn 4.

Time to fortify the position! I airlift an AA and an Arty in place; a Recon comin´ from HQ arrives just in time to provide LOS. My guys fend off ice9´s forces from the right, then Titan´s from the left. New airlift brings Light Tanks. They put up a fierce resistance for 10 turns... man oh man, I´m 20 to zero-zero-zero!

Then ice9´s blue tide steamrolls over everything. I have no resources now to fight back, so I keep pestering him with planes while cheering for Titan to go for the middle... but no, it ain´t enough. Titan´s infantry does manage to finally take both CPs, but it´s turn 30 and it´s 21 to 20 for ice9.

Who kicked me out of yestarday´s sealed deck, by the way.

**sighs**

Ah, well... another tourney, another first round defeat.

So, anyway... how DOES second round looks like?

I mean, from the inside?

((An awesome game, guys. And Ice... gonna get you, mate, I´m gonna get you. Soon enough! ))

haha had yourself an epic battle it seems, don't know how you could've lost that one. Did ice have more resources?

seems so

Sometimes you can pull off a win by going for the control points like that, but if you don't have the resources to protect them then you will eventually be wiped out. That map has a lot of resources, and since the control points are so far away from your base, you need to have the resources to build a lot of fighters to the middle quickly.

I think that map should be a little smaller or at least have more control points and more maximum turns. It took me around 6 turns to get my infantry to the middle, so even though I had won the battle in the middle when you were up 8-0, you were able to get to 20 before I could cover the points.

Also, I think there should be more maximum turns for that map. Titan was able to kill me off, but by the time he did that I had pulled ahead, the maximum turns were reached, and the game was over.

Yeah, he did.



I kinda like that map, big as it is. Big maps bring in that extra layer of strategy, IMHO.

Actually, me reaching to 20 was a lot better than I had expected (I assumed I would not even get to ten), and I correctly assumed that after one of you guys took the center, I wouldn´t be able to retake it (since I would be far behind resource wise)

What I didn´t expect was for you to dominate it so completely; I assumed (very wrongy this time) that you and Titan would spend several turns fighting over the middle, and that I would use what little resources I had to pester the one taking the lead.

I airlifted some tanks and artillery after I got the middle; the wrong choice seems to be that I focused on Titan instead of you. Perhaps I even shouldn´t have airlifted a single unit, so better to leave you guys at it?

At any rate, a great game, and quite a few morsels for thought.

all i know is that kerghans is coming along very nicely and should be one of the top players with some more practice

Wheeeeeehooowww!!


It looks like this!!





Used those tricks you told me and guess what... they work juuuuuust fine. Yeah!