Something I’ve been thinking a lot about recently is that we have a lot of old WR templates that have potential but need to be modernized.

For one, almost every WR template has random move order. Most of these templates can instantly be improved with cyclic move order.

For two, almost every WR template has neutrals of 2. However, this allows for strategies like gambling on pure 3v2 expansion, and even 2v2 expansion. Neutrals of 3 could result in gambling on 4v3 expansion but it’d be a lot less worth it than 3v2 by a lot.

This thought came up when I saw CL18 is going to have Strat ME appear. Why as Strat community haven’t we reworked these WR templates into something a bit more competitive?

Perhaps we should refurbish these old templates.

Link those templates.

https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=39233614 Here's Strat ME refurbished, but I'm not 100% sure if these settings are best yet. This is the idea though. Swap RMO for Cyclic, +2 to base income +1 to starting army, and +1 to every neutral should be.. similar play. Maybe +1 to base income only.

Basically any 0% WR template could use this.

Edited 10/8/2024 21:59:11

Here’s a tournament with the settings Rufus and I came up with. It plays like Strat ME without the option to try for 3v2 expansion when you fall behind. https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer/Tournament?ID=58956

I've been told that naming my template "Strat ME Optimized" is too elitist, so henceforth the template will be named: Stratowut ME: Ruffles Remix

i like cheese and sour cream ruffles the best