X-DAP-05 TeamBoldDutch vs. DairyQryn

That is not how luck work. You can get super long hot streaks you know.

Congrats on the winners. Good play from both sides.

There isn’t such thing as good luck across several games (with the number of independent rolls impacting the games, that’s impossible). Cow’s approach makes me think of a poker book I read. A little more risky / loose play to keep your opponents on their toes, but always keep an out to limit the damage. By acknowledging / promoting his own luck, maybe Cow is gaining an advantage since their opponents will be more cautious and think about odds more conservatively?

@Boldfresh:

@Omega1759:

Congrats on the winners. Good play from both sides.

There isn’t such thing as good luck across several games (with the number of independent rolls impacting the games, that’s impossible). Cow’s approach makes me think of a poker book I read. A little more risky / loose play to keep your opponents on their toes, but always keep an out to limit the damage. By acknowledging / promoting his own luck, maybe Cow is gaining an advantage since their opponents will be more cautious and think about odds more conservatively?

Keep worshiping the coward omega…  we will see how he does in the finals.  It is very much possible to have an incredible luck streak and he has.  Obviously you arent really looking too deep into his games…   :lol:

Do you even play the game?  If so I would like to offer you a league game.

Cheers

Worship is too strong, but gotta give Cow some credit (as I do give you a lot of credit).

I play the game, but I find the amount of time needed to play strong players online is huge and isn’t worth the reward. Looking at the higher caliber games, it’s clear that you have to plan several moves ahead and think of the counter while simulating several battles based on a number of different actions and expected responses. In these cases, the winner depend not only on skill / experience / luck, but also the sheer amount of time and testing that is done on each side. I can’t compete with that level of investment of time and thinking and the resulting ROI is too low.

I have one League game ongoing with Wheatbeer and I got busy and bored (not sure if I’ll even finish it). For the time being, I’m back to playing casual table top games and picking up ideas on this site.

@Boldfresh:

Well all you saw in this game was an udder and complete beatdown by completely one sided dice.  Worst I have ever seen.  So im not sure, if you were watching the game, how you could give any credit to cow.  The dice get all the credit for his win as far as im concerned, and that is an objective assessment.

Can you show dice stats to prove it, accounting for all battles? I would be interested to see that.

yes the dice were bad,

but you guys also made mistakes, and did a lot of risky moves that I would not have done because I am a more conservative player

when you do a risky move, and get bad dice, yes it sucks and you can complain and all, but you are also greatly at fault for choosing a risky move over a conservative one

this is even true when it is the best move to make due to other considerations, like a high payoff, etc.

Omega, I rather doubt that anybody spends as much time as you think they do on these games. If you’re inexperienced you may spend more time, but once you play a few games and get your butt kicked you learn quickly and can be competitive without spending hours calculating every possibility. Of course, being competitive doesn’t mean you’ll win, but as you gain experience you will get better.

@Boldfresh:

Not being rude omega it was a short game just have a look.

The stats would be interesting to see. We could calculate the odds, e.g., 1 in 200

@Boldfresh:

1 in 20,000 I would estimate.  Dont know a generally accepted method to do it by or I would have suggested it…  :-P

Really doesnt matter.  We will see how the finals go.

The 1 in 20,000 is extremely hard to believe.

I kept my options open throughout the game. I made sure Japan always had attacks lined up for the next turn. Protected my transports. Did lots of attacks with overwhelming odds. All and all I like what I did in the Pacific.

Russia bought mech/armor which forced Germany to go barb, otherwise that would roll into China and possibly secure the Burma road. Plus the odds on london were not good enough to conquer it and expect enough survivors to turn around and hit Russia hard.

Italy I gave up on right away. It was just a decision I made on round 2 when I saw all that Russian mech. I just wanted to make sure Russia did not get any NOs and that Germany could focus on Russia.
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The reason I scrambled my one fighter on Japan against 2 fighters, was because I knew if I won that the full carrier buy would not be very effective. That was a very big upset which set America back big time. I should have kept a second fighter on Japan. I realized that shortly after posting before you guys went, but I wanted a no edit after posting game.