Comments on: Split the Glory

By: Matt Garber

Matt Garber — Mon, 29 Aug 2005 19:10:02 +0000

Man, I forgot how extremely pissed off I was about that game of Attack.

By: Erik

Erik — Mon, 29 Aug 2005 01:07:28 +0000

That’s what’s great about guerilla. There’s no production aspect so it’s rare that someone falls so far behind that it’s hopeless, and even the people with a big lead can et left behind if their faction doesn’t win.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 15:16:27 +0000

yo.
This concept, although new to board games, is nothing new to modern warfare. Infact, you actually reinacted the seige of Berlin.

There was much debate between the western allies and the soviets on who was going to invade Berlin. Stalin was looking for a propaganda victory, the allies, however, didnt want to spare the troops, especially since Berlin would be in the sovet zone. Stalin recieved his glory and the Allies recieved thier victory.

Point is, with the advent of the cold war, it was evident that Soviets and the allies were two seperate sides with the same goals, I cant help but draw an analogy to the last days of WW2.

By: Michael Terry

Michael Terry — Sun, 21 Aug 2005 20:47:04 +0000

Erik, we already play games like that. See Matt Cheung Wins for one example. Let’s play a game of Dave, Erik, and Mike win… Yay, we won at life! More glory.

By: Dav

Dav — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 01:26:19 +0000

You’re just mad you didn’t get any glory.

By: Erik

Erik — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 23:02:24 +0000

The game had been going for maybe one hour. Stalemate? It was only a stalemate in the sense that nobody could really attack someone else’s BOSS, the most heavily defended piece in the game.

Everyone was just starting to get their vehicles. At that point it would have exploded into raids to “whack” enemy family members. I got one of Mike’s in a daring riverboat raid. Once we got helicopters, it would have been crazy. The point of the game is to weaken your enemies’ income by killing off vulnerable family members in quick raids. Once you cut their income down they’ll be vulnerable enough that you can take out the boss.

Why not just refuse to play the odds and have EVERYONE team up so that everyone wins and gets a share of the glory right at the start? You’ll end up with the same expected value and save a ton of time since you don’t even need to play the game anymore.

By: Michael Terry

Michael Terry — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 00:59:46 +0000

Dave is being kind when he says that my first attack softened Erik up. That was the plan, but once Dave’s war machine was mobilized, it became clear that he was unstoppable. I don’t think he needed me too much.

But, I disagree with holding out for more. In these kind of situations, I think splitting equally is the only way to go. You don’t want a coalition of the miffed.