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ColinWright -> RE: new player: tips (11/22/2007 9:44:32 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Karri
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ORIGINAL: ColinWright
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ORIGINAL: golden delicious
As for general advice, the one I always give out is to think carefully about everything you do. Because TOAW usually gives you a lot of peices to play with, it can be easy to slip into the habit of just shuffling them forward without thinking about where they're going or why. Why does this division need to go down road A instead of road B? Why am I attacking this enemy unit rather than going around it? Etc.
Yeah. The rule I try to follow is to not touch anything until I've thought through what my intentions are everywhere. It's also far too easy to just keep pushing where you've been pushing, to keep holding on if you've been holding on, to never look at the big picture.
I sometimes play a very 'opportunist' game, where I don't really look into the big picture but it somehow still plays for the big picture. It works sometimes, sometimes it doesn't.
But what I have learned is not to keep pushing on that one direction. It can make a huge difference, especially in the bigger senarios...I always look for alternate routes.
Yeah. You also have to adopt the right frame of mind for the scenario you're playing.
A couple of examples. I was playing Erik Nygaard's Norway as the British. Well, you don't want to go head to head with the Germans in that scenario. On the other hand, after the initial landings, you've got the sea whilst the German is stuck with plodding up all those long roads. Also, Norway's a big place, and the Germans can neither be everywhere nor get there for quite a while.
So it was 'hit 'em where they ain't.' It worked quite well. Let the German manage to drive you out of Trondheim. While he's doing that, you work on retaking Bergen. Etc.
Another -- and more painful -- lesson came after playing as the Germans in Ben's Poland. Well, not surprisingly, what pays off there is well-planned but basically head-long aggression. You're not going to get cut off, so don't worry about it, and any Polish counter-attacks will be puny little things you can fend off with a minimum of care.
I went from that to playing some 1914 thing designed by Jarek Fils -- with Jarek Fils. Very poor recon levels -- but I had the idea I should attack. Man, did I get hammered. Caught over-extended, hammered by a ferocious counterattack, and basically being driven off the map as the scenario ended.
You gotta figure out where you are and act accordingly. What works in one scenario will not work in another.
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