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flags>truces or truces>flags?
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Awesomeness! wrote
at 5:11 PM, Wednesday June 11, 2008 EDT
whats ur opinion?
i was in a game (wont mention any names, as i dont think thats fair) where: i was red strong in the south yellow was strong in the north teal was strongish but weaker than myself and teal and purple was in behind teal with 2 or 3 lands flagging for 3rd myself and teal both had equal lands give or take 1 or 2, and he was begging for teals help as he kept asking me why i wasnt flagged 2nd. i ignored him as much as possible to buy me some time to expand but teal eventually attacked me, i instantly flagged 2nd. they both persisted in attacking me despite my asking yellow to let us fight 2nd, to which his response was 'truces>flags' now, id understand and probaby agree with this 9 outa 10 times but myself and yellow never attacked eachother all game cos we were at opposite ends of the board therefore not having any trouble with eachother... i got annoyed with yellows lack of letting me and teal fight and him not attacking purple. i asked if i was gona get 4th when TEAL REFLAGGED 3rd! why didnt he do that many rounds ago... a stupid game with a player a liked... so whats your opinion? flags > truces or truces > flags? |
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Awesomeness! wrote
at 5:13 PM, Wednesday June 11, 2008 EDT REPOST
i was in a game (wont mention any names, as i dont think thats fair) where: i was red strong in the south yellow was strong in the north teal was strongish but weaker than myself and yellow and purple was in behind yellow with 2 or 3 lands flagging for undeserved 3rd myself and yellow both had equal lands give or take 1 or 2, and he was begging for teals help as he kept asking me why i wasnt flagged 2nd. i ignored him as much as possible to buy me some time to expand but teal eventually attacked me, i instantly flagged 2nd. they both persisted in attacking me despite my asking yellow to let us fight 2nd, to which his response was 'truces>flags' now, id understand and probaby agree with this 9 outa 10 times but myself and yellow never attacked eachother all game cos we were at opposite ends of the board therefore not having any trouble with eachother... i got annoyed with yellows lack of letting me and teal fight and him not attacking purple. i asked if i was gona get 4th when TEAL REFLAGGED 3rd! why didnt he do that many rounds ago... a stupid game with a player a liked... so whats your opinion? flags > truces or truces > flags? |
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Adam's Argos wrote
at 5:15 PM, Wednesday June 11, 2008 EDT Your position is one of those gray areas. 9/10 I say truces>flags; however, this seems like one of those 1/10 times.
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Differential X wrote
at 8:00 PM, Wednesday June 11, 2008 EDT Truce>flags
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[classified] wrote
at 8:01 PM, Wednesday June 11, 2008 EDT I think truce>flags everytime
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dasfury wrote
at 8:08 PM, Wednesday June 11, 2008 EDT truce trumps
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FlaggersNeverWin wrote
at 8:11 PM, Wednesday June 11, 2008 EDT Flags are virtual truces with 1st.
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Grunvagr wrote
at 9:18 PM, Wednesday June 11, 2008 EDT It goes that truces > flags.
The only situation where this isnt the case is where your ally has maybe just one land left...and it will take a looooooong time to kill the other player off entirely. If it takes more than 20+ rounds to mop up to help your ally... then it's okay to say to your ally, im sorry you're gonna have to settle for 3rd. truces > flags though in almost all situations, imo |
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jurgen wrote
at 1:38 AM, Thursday June 12, 2008 EDT I am glad grunvagr brought that last point up because it can indeed be a valid reason to overrule the truce>flags if your partner was reduced to 1 stack or if the opponent really gave a trully heroic battle and kinda deserves 2nd.
personally, i wouldn't say "you have to take 3rd" but I would at least ask my truce partner to flag. A typical truce partner with a sense of fairness and kdice honour will sometimes flag by himself without even asking. But if you ask and he still wants 2nd, I still think you need to help him get it. At that point I ask the 3rd person to suicide to make his death quick and less costly in points. |
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Shevar wrote
at 6:48 AM, Thursday June 12, 2008 EDT truces > flags
only respect the flags you need in order to win. |
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wishbone wrote
at 7:35 AM, Thursday June 12, 2008 EDT i wrote about this many moons ago. truces >ALWAYS> flags
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