Because the Impaller is trust worthy

Going off of how I think Imp plays and prior to looking at the votes, this is what I would do.
1) India
2) Central America
3) South America
4) West Russia
5) Scandinavia
6) Indonesia

My laptop is dying so I don't have too much time to justify why, nor does it really matter. Needless to say, I like best the option with India as the first choice. I don't think Indonesia is a very strong pick because of the warlord. So India would negate a pick if he choose it, and if he didn't choose Indo it would be a safe set to hold and expand from, especially if we got West Russia at #5 (although I think it should be # 4 in priority, but oh well).

Back, I choose to vote for three options.

4, with 5 stars

7 and #9 with 4 stars each.

Good rationale Boston Fred.

9 was the option I introduced, and here's why:

1)Central America- Obvious, it allows a possible first turn capture, quick enough to most likely repel any second-turn counter if successful, and if not there are other options.
2)India- Very important in this game. The two counters for this region are unlikely to be occupied if he loses India.
3)West Russia- Available to counter Scandinavia if needed, and if not it can provide a good, somewhat isolated bonus, and an access point to India if it is not given.
4)South America- Provides a counter to CA if it is not given to us, and if both are given it's a fairly solid expansion point or recon to Africa and Antarctica.
5)Antarctica- It's a good access point to Africa and the areas north of it, and is only accessible via choke-points.
6)West Africa- Unlikely we'll get this, but if we do we know exactly where he is, and we can likely launch from here to counter him in CA and possibly South America.

Waya i agree with you on first 3 but not last 3. first of all, i dont think hes gonna take scandanvia as early pick, since he knows this is done by voting and its very popular spot. second of all i think our last 3 should be west africa, antarctica, south america

I think any pick that puts antartica after South America is just fail.. like he got the counter pick, so let's choose what he's countering? completely illogical Imho

and Dansonno, for the same reason why most of the main core of players tend to play games that are invite only.. we follow the rules set down for each game, for the challange of playing that game.. we could cheat and win, but then it'd be a dirty win. like Playing the Mothra game as Mothra and then seperating your armies out and pwning.. you could, and you'd win, but you'd be more fail then if you lose legitly

mothra game?

I'm playing Mothra and losing badly, albeit legitly.

whats mothra game?

http://warlight.net/MultiPlayer.aspx?GameID=1215908

afaik there isn't anything incriminating in public chat that should be averted :P

Why is the Impaller doing this instead of Doushibag, who is ranked #1? Just curious.

I don't like any of these options. I would have done

India
Indonesia
East China
West China
Caucasia
East Russia

You can take India in one turn, and then move to China.

Sebcorps--

No comment on the Doushi thing.

I'm not a fan of your proposal at all. It concedes most of the world to Impaller, who would have free expansion wherever he went. And I don't see why you would start out in East China with a wasteland.

I would like to say that this is a great idea for a series. I have to credit my unexpected success in the membership tourney (I don't want to jinx anything! I know I am still an underdog even if I win my championship of the winner's bracket game!) partially to reading a thread a little while back in which the top players described their general strategy. I think it sped my learning process up by hundreds of games. This series is even better as we will have good players arguing over the top choices of a real-time game, and really be able to see the thought process that goes into each move. I like that a lot. It will help newcomers quite a bit.

Snappy Vote now has an image of the map for territory selection so you don't need to change tabs/windows. Subsequent turns will also have images of the turn.

This is your last day to vote! Currently, number 6 is winning.

Remember, by voting 1 star on an item that lowers its vote. If you want your choices to be most effective, you should vote 1 star for each item that you don't want to win.

I picked #6 first and it's a bet that Imp picks 2 of our top 3 picks in his top 3 and picks the same 1st pick. If that's right then it's a good set. We end up with either WR and Ant or CA and another pick. It might be a better choice if WR was 2nd and Ant was 3rd, cause that's all we really have in Asia. I also prefer EA to WA (because you get such a devasting block on WA in Congo).

There's a high probability that we end up with 2 out of 3 among CA, SA and Ant. Which would likely mean we know Imp is in the one we didn't get. So our initial move will be to go for that block. I like that start, especially if Imp doesn't know we also have a counter there.

I like all our starts where we get CA, SA (or Ant, SA) and any of WR, WA or India. It would not be a very good start if we got our 124 picks, especially against Imp. That's the only combo I really don't like. But 14 and 3, 5 or 6 or 24 and 3, 5 or 6 are fine.

So I'm crossing my fingers that we don't get 124.

SebCorps... don't say such silly things.

Number 6 is final! The next turn will be posted in a new thread today.

voted!