I’ve been doing quite a bit of surfing around lately, reading up on different strategies and tactics people recommend. As you might guess, most of the (it seems to me) more knowledgeable people list basically the same moves, purchases, and goals, for each country.
All of which makes perfect sense of course, but left me wondering:
Do the more experienced players find their games vs. other experienced players follow a predictable path? It would seem to me it would almost have to; although chance might favor a risky gamble now and then, good players would more often come out ahead against such play.
All the reading I’ve done has left me with the ‘chess’ feeling, of being required to make certain moves (especially in the early game) almost regardless of what your opponent does. Of course, the game becomes more flexible as the turns go on, but I’ve seen strat guilds going into the 6th, 7th, and 8th turns =p
Anyway, the reason for this long ramble come down to this question, for the experts out there.
At what point in the game do you usually know (barring obscene rolls) you’ve won?
I’m sure that we could agree Germany not sinking a ship, yet losing all it’s planes on turn 1 would be disasterous; or russia attacking and losing every man - but during a standard game, with average dice, can anyone point to a specific battle, or territory, or time, when they say ‘Phew, I think i’ve got this one’.
I don’t know if this is a silly question on not, but for some reason I find it very interesting. =p