I play Russia, I don’t discuss diddly with my team. They serve me or they are useless to me. Why would I care what they want to discuss? hehe.
Same if I’m Japan, don’t much care about my German counter part (in classic that is.)
Axis coordination usualy goes something like:
“You could attack Russia any day now!”
“I’m going as fast as I can!”
“Faster would be better, I’m getting my a$$ handed to me over here!”
“Do I need to cut you!?”
“If you pull that knike out it better be dull, 'cause you know where I’ll stick it!”
and it generaly degrades from there…
Wow, that’s pretty civilized, Desert.
Usually I hear more from Germany, like “You stupid (natural water barricade)! Why are you invading W. USA instead of Yakut and SFE!!!” Usually degrades from there until I threaten to pull out the Berretta and end the game with “artillery” from the Goddess of Earth.
LOL
IF germany wants help in afica then i’ll hellp them but other than that i don’t communicate with them.
Germany and Japan must work together to win.
One key play is flying Japanese fighters in to reinforce a newly taken German territory.
Personally, I’m a big fan of the “Thor and Skippy Method”. It’s an article on the Caspian Sub website - Policy Paper #17.
http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/Caspian_Sub/files/1PolicyPapers/
CSubP17 1v0 - There’s No ‘I’.zip
In FTF games, team play is exactly that: TEAM play. Both players work the game. And really, unless you have 5 players and a “no talking” rule, it has to be that way. Otherwise, the Allied player that controls 2 or 3 powers has a big integration advantage.
Peace
@CrazyStraw:
Personally, I’m a big fan of the “Thor and Skippy Method”. It’s an article on the Caspian Sub website - Policy Paper #17.
http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/Caspian_Sub/files/1PolicyPapers/
CSubP17 1v0 - There’s No ‘I’.zipIn FTF games, team play is exactly that: TEAM play. Both players work the game. And really, unless you have 5 players and a “no talking” rule, it has to be that way. Otherwise, the Allied player that controls 2 or 3 powers has a big integration advantage.
Peace
Thanks for the advice about Operation Sealion, Skippy. You’re wrong. I will roll all 1’s on the first round and success is guaranteed. Why don’t you fetch me a tunafish sandwich with garlic salt on it to go with that lemonade. BTW, while you are up check on Jorge and Oleg over at table 5, I hear we are up against them next game.
Thor
Hey, we love Skippy just because he’s Skippy.
And some might consider scouting Jorge and Oleg to be bad etiquette. Of course if your opponent KNEW Jorge and Oleg, they would want you to study them closely…
@CrazyStraw:
And some might consider scouting Jorge and Oleg to be bad etiquette.Â
NO !!! Not the scouting debate again !!! :)
I do agree that one player does need to take the lead role though, at least for tournament play.
Squirecam
NO !!! Not the scouting debate again !!! :)
BWhAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!1!
I’m making an, um, educational video!
NO !!! Not the scouting debate again !!! :)
Aha! The compulsive reply to the scouting topic is like watching a lab-rat hit a bar to receive a cocaine pellet. It’s not healthy behavior, but no one can hold back.
;)
CS, why didn’t you enter the Spring Tourney? Everyone’s thinking Caspian Sub is you and I was playing against you…I mean him and I thought you had been hit in the head by a brick because you were playing so poorly!!! Oh vey, life is odd. Still, where ya been?
What the heck is the scouting debate???
@CrazyStraw:
Aha! The compulsive reply to the scouting topic is like watching a lab-rat hit a bar to receive a cocaine pellet. It’s not healthy behavior, but no one can hold back.
;)
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What’s the scouting debate?
You’re at a tourney. Someone comes by and watches your game. He watches every move. He just sits there.
Then you notice that that someone goes away after you finish your crucial moves, and starts having an animated discussion with someone else that is playing in the tournament.
So how do you feel about that?
Everyone’s thinking Caspian Sub is you and I was playing against you…
Heh heh. I’m glad the name is getting around. Hopefully whoever’s using that name will start winning ;)
Only a couple of the CSub editors play online at all. Of the four editors that have been to tournaments, none play online. We’re pretty much just FTF guys.
I could see online play taking A LOT of time. I don’t think I’ll ever get into it just because it’s too time intensive. I like FTF banter, and I like knowing I get a game done in an afternoon.
Yoper: I’m sure lots of stories will get rehashed at the Spring Fling or Origins. The one I’m dreading the most is about the savage beat-down Ohio put on Michigan at the Border Battle. Next Nov. we’ll get some revenge.
Peace
@CrazyStraw:
Everyone’s thinking Caspian Sub is you and I was playing against you…
Heh heh. I’m glad the name is getting around. Hopefully whoever’s using that name will start winning ;)
Only a couple of the CSub editors play online at all. Of the four editors that have been to tournaments, none play online. We’re pretty much just FTF guys.
I could see online play taking A LOT of time. I don’t think I’ll ever get into it just because it’s too time intensive. I like FTF banter, and I like knowing I get a game done in an afternoon.
Yoper: I’m sure lots of stories will get rehashed at the Spring Fling or Origins. The one I’m dreading the most is about the savage beat-down Ohio put on Michigan at the Border Battle. Next Nov. we’ll get some revenge.
Peace
There was the time I beat Crazystraw at Spring Gathering 07…. :)
Squirecam
There was the time I beat Crazystraw at Spring Gathering 07…. :)
You are suffering from delusions of adequacy, my friend.
;)
If I make it to Spring Gathering 07 there is DEFINITELY a slot on my schedule with your name on it. Heck, if I make it out to the Vegas area sometime you’ll be getting a phone call :-D
Peace
@CrazyStraw:
There was the time I beat Crazystraw at Spring Gathering 07…. :)
You are suffering from delusions of adequacy, my friend.
;)
If I make it to Spring Gathering 07 there is DEFINITELY a slot on my schedule with your name on it. Heck, if I make it out to the Vegas area sometime you’ll be getting a phone call :-D
Peace
I am just honored that someone as inadequate as myself would be allowed to play you. :)
Squirecam
I think all forms of chatting are permitted and are in the spirit of the game. Its one of the least addressed aspects of why the game SHOULD only be a game played by 4-5 players to encourage to social aspect of having potentially 5 nations to play and these are not perfectly coordinated armies. They should not be because what makes the game fun is the sole aspect of “the sum of the parts is greater than the whole” philosophy which i feel is the games main discipline. If you have one guy telling/controlling everybody what to do the game has no point, and if you have everybody doing only what they want you have no point in playing. The matter is diplomacy and a give and take of “ill do this if you do that” which is consistent with the actual historical record. A happy medium is the only just reward for success and joy from playing.
If the whole game becomes reduced to some silly home preparation and sheets of paper with numerous “perfect plans” and a near perfect coordination of all nations… the game becomes reduced to something that IMO it was never intended to become by the designer.
If both sides make a few mistakes, but try to do the best they can for themselves and the “team” then they have succeeded in playing it correctly.
