@ncscswitch:
@Hamar:
until you have played some email games it is pointless to talk strategy.
I consider that to be HIGHLY insulting.
It is worded very bad, and hides the point that is behind that.
I may not have played any “email” games, But I HAVE played some DAMN fine players IRL over the past nearly 20 YEARS.
That is still a pretty small pond, compared to the internet. Sure, you were the biggest fish in there. But now you have met the ocean, and i think you have already learnt a lot more than you have learnt in another N years of playing.
In addition I have kicked the snot out of everything that the PC can throw at me, even stacking the deck against myself.
That is no problem even for me. And i don’t think that i am anything more than a pretty average player.
And then of course there is the ultimate opponent: myself. Always knowing what I have planned, always planning to counter, to counter, the counter, etc.
That sounds quite like hubris, and probably explains why you feel HIGHLY insulted, and not just “plain” insulted by the starting remark.
And if you doubt my skills so much, read some of the 50 or so posts I have made here, and then get back to me if you feel I am still unqualified to talk “strategy”
Do you remember how you started here? In your fourth post you claimed that ignoring the US and UK will win you the game for Germany in a 2nd ed, no bid, no RR ….
http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=5337.msg80024#msg80024
You have moved quite a bto from that, but if i compare you to the “big guns” here … there is still a long long way to go. (A way which i for myself decided not to take, but i have seen it winding in front of me :) ).
There is a world beyond “email” and a lot of folks game quite well without electronic component.
True, but grow, you need to stretch your roots and suck up strategies, ideas and knowledge from everywhere. Internet just speeds up the process.
Anyway: It was insulting, but you were (are?) too full of yourself. There are a lot of fine players here. If you are so sure about yourself, then dare them.