I tought the topic was about getting good at this game. When you are as good as krzychu you are allowed to pick a random game of him and criticise his play on the forum.
If you want to be the best, talk less about how great you are and prove it in any way. I'm not wasting my time with you after that point cause you aren't really interested in understanding stuff as your short discussion with kenny showed. If you want to improve you should maybe consider the fact that you aren't so good as you think and that it takes more to win games on a ladder than on autogames against newbies.

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@Billy Walsh: As an oldschoool pro you are used to 16% luck weighted random but you should adapt your picking style more to no luck.

As a general guideline:
- With no luck combos get less viable. I usually prefer complete map control.
- With no luck the bigger bonuses get more viable. A strategy that involves only +3 bonuses seems pretty weak.
- I also prefer first turn bonuses less with no luck involved. The benefit is that you never miss them however since the template is more about expansion afterwards you can't afford to chase shadows not knowing from which direction to expect your opponent to counter you.

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You didnt know about US in 2 turns and your strategy is basically 1 turn forward (you never know why you move somewhere with no plan turn after) and yet you ve been near 1900. Have you given your account to someone else to play with ?? lol

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@Billy Walsh:

Yeah having to deploy full force for the first two turns for your bonuses isn't that great when your opponent starts right next to you. When starting with immediate opponent contact I usually recommend deploying full force at his border and attacking him with 1 army first move. This has 2 advantages:

a) If he tries to dodge and you get first order his dodge move will fail.

b) If he attacks you full force later that turn he gets an inefficient attack of 7 leading him to lose 2 more armies than you instead of only 1. This isn't only a huge disadvantage for you opponent but in quite some circumstances it's then already game over after round one. In round 2 you would be free to hit him full force and the best he could achieve with full deployment is a break even leading to exactly the same stacks as before however he might have moved all his stacks first round so he won't get a card piece.

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