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Re: Ideas on the best WM design.

Wed, 05 March 2003 14:11

yucaf

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Agree with you Stalwart... The fact of being perceived as a "dangerous" or, say, an "agressive" race, may imply a lot of diplomacy from your neighbours. They know you will probably want to take ONE of them early, so they will try all the necessary to avoid to be the target. And diplomacy is the best way to get there at a lesser cost (you can also show that you have a powerful military but that would cost you dearly in the beginning game).

Still, if you choose to be all the way agressive with your favorite WM race, you better get enough advantage of that strategy so as to allow you victory at one point or the other. All this because this behavior will probably exclude posterior alliance and WM is not particularly great in the middle-end game without an ally. His weak defensive capabilities need to be compensated by a good ally or you are in trouble. I think in particular in the absence of mine fields. In a medium/large or huge game, you will need to trade mine layers. Your best DN's won't stop several armies attacking from different angles and destroying about one planet a year, when you need 3 to 4 times more between minesweeping, attack, bombing the installations and bombing the population... And in the late game, WM has less economic advantages than the "economic races" so alone it would be inferior.

In all games where I was WM, I did not necessarily attacked early, and when authorized, diplomacy was always present. Being ABLE to attack early was a huge tool for obtaining what I wanted. Lots of fun Smile

I also played WM in small universes with no diplomacy and attacking or counter attacking was indeed the only alternative. Lots of fun too Very Happy

Now, about the ideal design, it doesn't exists. As Chagarra pointed out, it depends a lot of the initial conditions, number of players, size universe etc. and even then, nothing ensure you are going to win or even just "doing well". If you need some help on a particular design, first post the environmental conditions and propose a ...

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		Ideas on the best WM design. By: Mosser on Tue, 04 March 2003 20:21
		Re: Ideas on the best WM design. By: chagarra on Tue, 04 March 2003 20:57
		Re: Ideas on the best WM design. By: Stalwart on Tue, 04 March 2003 23:30
		Re: Ideas on the best WM design. By: yucaf on Wed, 05 March 2003 14:11
		Re: Ideas on the best WM design. By: chagarra on Wed, 05 March 2003 22:33
		Re: Ideas on the best WM design. By: Mosser on Thu, 06 March 2003 11:43
		Re: Ideas on the best WM design. By: yucaf on Thu, 06 March 2003 21:13
		Re: Ideas on the best WM design. By: Mosser on Thu, 06 March 2003 22:35
		Re: Ideas on the best WM design. By: Coyote on Thu, 06 March 2003 23:42
		Re: Ideas on the best WM design. By: yucaf on Fri, 07 March 2003 21:47
		Re: Ideas on the best WM design. By: Dark_Traveller on Fri, 17 October 2003 16:51
		Re: Ideas on the best WM design. By: LEit on Fri, 17 October 2003 21:12
		Re: Ideas on the best WM design. By: Dark_Traveller on Sat, 18 October 2003 18:20
		Re: Ideas on the best WM design. By: zoid on Wed, 05 March 2003 22:40
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		Re: Ideas on the best WM design. By: Dark_Traveller on Thu, 23 October 2003 17:07
		Re: Ideas on the best WM design. By: Ptolemy on Mon, 29 March 2004 04:40
		Re: Ideas on the best WM design. By: Kotk on Mon, 29 March 2004 09:22
		Re: Ideas on the best WM design. By: Ptolemy on Mon, 29 March 2004 10:40
		Re: Ideas on the best WM design. By: Kotk on Mon, 29 March 2004 11:55
		Re: Ideas on the best WM design. By: Ptolemy on Mon, 29 March 2004 12:13
		Re: Ideas on the best WM design. By: Kotk on Mon, 29 March 2004 15:08
		Re: Ideas on the best WM design. By: Ptolemy on Mon, 29 March 2004 15:38
		Re: Ideas on the best WM design. By: Kotk on Mon, 29 March 2004 15:58
		Re: Ideas on the best WM design. By: Ptolemy on Mon, 29 March 2004 16:10
		Re: Ideas on the best WM design. By: Dark_Traveller on Tue, 06 April 2004 09:59
		Re: Ideas on the best WM design. By: LEit on Tue, 06 April 2004 10:13
		Re: Ideas on the best WM design. By: Dark_Traveller on Tue, 06 April 2004 12:04
		Re: Ideas on the best WM design. By: LEit on Tue, 06 April 2004 13:52
		Re: Ideas on the best WM design. By: Ptolemy on Tue, 06 April 2004 10:23
		Re: Ideas on the best WM design. By: Dark_Traveller on Tue, 06 April 2004 12:09
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		Re: Ideas on the best WM design. By: mlaub on Wed, 07 April 2004 01:41
		Re: Ideas on the best WM design. By: LEit on Wed, 07 April 2004 01:58
		Re: Ideas on the best WM design. By: iztok on Wed, 07 April 2004 02:35
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		Re: Ideas on the best WM design. By: Crusader on Tue, 06 April 2004 13:57
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