Re: ME-PBM Late Joiners

From: Chelsea Wood <auril@delphi.com>

Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 00:00:00 +0000

Kevin McGee <kdmcgee@aol.com> writes:

>Hear, hear!  My point exactly.  A strategy is not honorable, enjoyable
>or desirable just because the rules allow it.  Of course if "winning" in
>the stricitest, narrowest sense is your only objective...go for it.  Such
>mundane, nonaggrandizing things as team-building, team play and team
>success are only for us chumps.

That I can agree with.  It's much more fun when I get to talk to the
other players and plot the demise of the opposition, layout traps for the
enemy, brag about great victories to your teammates, last, but not least
the glowing feeling that you get from transferring that critical MT to a
teammate that saves his bacon, until that moment when we all celebrate
Saur...oops. <G> victory.   In my opinion, a team player is a person
who not only celebrates his own truimphs, he also celebrates his teammates'
y, along with a willingness to sacrifice so that the TEAM
wins the game.
    I don't particulary care for "teammates" who don't send cards, communicate
or coordinate, unless it's a really, really dead game.  I'm in two 2950 games
and even though I (used to be) was having my ass beaten in one of them, I'm
having a ball because the WW, WK, DogLord, Cloud Lord and I are working
together and elimnating quite a fair number of FP per turn.  This isn't the
case in my other 2950 game - heck the teamwork is almost non-existent, and
I've been thinking of dropping that one, but I didn't want to leave the other
players (however uncommunicative) in the lurch.
   I said this before, and it's my opinion - sitting around for x turns building
up my nation and spending 6.50 a turn just watching my pop centers is about as
entertaining as watching grass grow, unless I plan to use those troops SOON.
(Heck, I just declared for the DS as the Easterlings cause the DS were getting
killed and I wanted to try out all that cavalry I'd been raising since game
start, and it's kinda fun to see if I can save the underdog. <G>

Amarthlinde

References

Re: ME-PBM Late Joiners
desj@ccr-p.ida.org (David desJardins)
Mon, 10 Jul 1995 00:00:00 +0000
Re: ME-PBM Late Joiners
dcd@nasa.kodak.com (Dennis DeYoung)
Tue, 11 Jul 1995 00:00:00 +0000
Re: ME-PBM Late Joiners
Kevin McGee <kdmcgee@aol.com>
Tue, 11 Jul 1995 00:00:00 +0000