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on a more serious note, that Octopus guy and i disagree on strategy.
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the full monte wrote
at 12:34 AM, Wednesday November 10, 2010 EST
so i say that when making a connect between a main base and an island that is at least 2-terrs away, you always attack from the mainbase first.
octopus guy disagrees and says that in some situations its better to have an unsuccessful connect, while attacking from the island, and leaving yourself with a larger, more spread out island than a larger mainbase with a 1-terr island which will have a bigger stack. thoughts? |
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Troy11 wrote
at 1:00 AM, Wednesday November 10, 2010 EST use all your stacks, get that connect or else
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jurgen wrote
at 1:17 AM, Wednesday November 10, 2010 EST the only situation where I would agree with Octopus is something similar like this:
let's say the person you want to go through has a strong (6-8) stack but it's nicely locked in by the lands you need for the connect. On paper, you have an easy connect to do, let's say 5v4 from the island and 4v2 from the island or 6v2 from the main. You have a big stack that if it stacks can match the big stack from the oponent so depending of the rest of the board you can still decide how you attack the final 2stack to connect. Anyway, I am not saying always, but in some cases it's better to check first if the initial island attack works before you engage in an all out war with the person you go through. If the 5v4 fails, you can still talk your way out of it and of course his big stack can't touch you since you didnt free it towards your base. So as usual, Monte is right in about 90% of the situations thoughts? |
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wishbone wrote
at 2:18 PM, Thursday November 11, 2010 EST oh man, come on now. this is kids play. Everyone knows that monte tries with islands and fails and then chatpwns noobs in to thinking he didnt want to do it.
side bar: i think getting as close as possible with the island is advantageous and then moving main terr. I mean 2 terr isn't that far. In general I would have to say move your main base first, and if that fails it might stack the island anyway giving you some sort of advantage. Islands suck, don't sack them, where have I heard that? |
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Nazerith wrote
at 7:54 PM, Thursday November 11, 2010 EST I would attack with whichever is the smaller stack that could reasonably succeed. If main base has a 6 stack and island is a 7-8 stack, and you are going through 2 stacks, use the 6 stack. Makes it more likely for there to be a large stack near the connect to protect it.
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fcuku wrote
at 11:04 PM, Thursday November 11, 2010 EST there is always an advantage of having a large stack in your opponents backside. If you spend long enough playing kdice, youll know when to connect and when not to connect. I tend to lean on the side of not connecting, or meeting the mainland with the island and blocking as much as possible if i do it. the thing that most people fall pitfall to is that when they connect, they just concede the tail end of their connect.
rule- 20-something in the warshboner guide to success: dont take land you cant keep |
