Trench Warfare

[AndyDufresne]

Freestyle Trench may be a new setting that I'll play more of...


--Andy

[chapcrap]

Freestyle Trench may be a new setting that I'll play more of...


--Andy

Perhaps you were wanting to look into the tournament that is located in my signature then...

[OliverFA]

Freestyle Trench may be a new setting that I'll play more of...


--Andy

Perhaps you were wanting to look into the tournament that is located in my signature then...

Oh yes please pretty please!

[ask me2]

At first I saw this and said "No way!", but I'm really loving it now, it's all new strategy and tactics. Thank you Lack for finally imputing something useful!

[AndyDufresne]

Freestyle Trench may be a new setting that I'll play more of...


--Andy

Perhaps you were wanting to look into the tournament that is located in my signature then...

Too bad you used Feudal War and New World, I just avoid those maps. Maybe another time.

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At first I saw this and said "No way!", but I'm really loving it now, it's all new strategy and tactics. Thank you Lack for finally imputing something useful!

I think if you give it a chance, Trench is a pretty fun way to play some of your games. Since the update went live on April 9th, 7512 games according to the game finder have been finished, or are active / waiting.


--Andy

[OliverFA]

After several games, I change my opinion about freestyle. It's still too dependant on being online at all times. I think I will come back to sequential, and just have more games at the same time.

[HighlanderAttack]

After several games, I change my opinion about freestyle. It's still too dependant on being online at all times. I think I will come back to sequential, and just have more games at the same time.

what about speed freestyle

[Viceroy63]

After several games, I change my opinion about freestyle. It's still too dependant on being online at all times. I think I will come back to sequential, and just have more games at the same time.

I am currently playing two TW games and I also and beginning to wonder about the logic behind the Freestyle setting in these games. It may be worth it if the game takes even more longer than it might otherwise take any way just to be able to sleep uninterrupted all night long. It's like waking up just to take my medicine.

[OliverFA]

what about speed freestyle

Yes that makes more sense as in a speed game you are supposed to be online all the time.

I am currently playing two TW games and I also and beginning to wonder about the logic behind the Freestyle setting in these games. It may be worth it if the game takes even more longer than it might otherwise take any way just to be able to sleep uninterrupted all night long. It's like waking up just to take my medicine.

At first it seemed like a good idea, but unfortunatelly the player that happens to be online gets an advantadge even above good strategy. Like let's say in a border clash with similar armies. The first player to attack has higher chance to win.

[Viceroy63]

Exactly; It would seem like a good idea because the TW game takes an awfully long time to play because it is such a lengthy process. I gave it the name of Slow and Gradual Expansionism. That being the case then, the Freestyle setting would appear to make things go by a bit quicker if every one played to the logic of quickening the game but it just seems that there are ways to take advantage of the Freestyle setting and make the freestyle setting undesirable in game play. Like when a player plays last and then waits for another player to play just to do an "Alexander." And in some cases, an "Alexander" could even mean the elimination of a player under the right conditions. And then one would really lose a lot of sleep then.

[AndyDufresne]

I'm going to give Freestyle a few more chances with Trench before I decide whether I like it with the setting or not...


--Andy

[ask me2]

What is an "Alexander"?

[Leehar]

What is an "Alexander"?

Conquering the world before turning 17? (getting to 17 rounds )

[Viceroy63]

What is an "Alexander"?

Lol; I guessed I coined that as well. What I mean to say is when any player, in a Freestyle, trench setting, who waits to be the last person to play and then waits again until another player plays in order to play quickly again, to expand his borders quickly. That is what I am referring to when I say an "Alexander." Hope that clears that up. But if not...

Alexander the great was famous for inventing what we called today, "The Blitzkrieg War" That is German for, "Lightning Fast War." Alexander's armies were so fast, that it is said, "that his armies never touched the ground." That's in reference to being so fast that his armies just flew over the ground rather than marched over it.

So in a trench game when you wait to be the last to play and then wait until some one plays so that you can again be the second to play in the round after that, then you can expand your borders quickly like Alexander the great did. Alexander the Great, In a matter of a few short years, quickly marched from Macedonia to the Caucasus, then to Egypt and finally deep into Asia, into the heart of the Persian empire all the way up to India. All in a matter of a few short years. In just a bit more time then a presidential term in office.

In normal game play, in Sequential for example, Such plays can not occur. I am of course referring to Trench settings after all. Such plays go against the normal flow of things. But it can happen in a Trench/Freestyle setting and appears as anything but normal, like the Alexandrian conquest of Persia. The Greek Empire that Alexander had conquered was the all time quickest for it's immense size. It just was not normal like other empires before it. I hope that this detailed explanation clears it up. That is why I call it, "an Alexander."

[shieldgenerator7]

So how exactly is this differnt from FoW?