Sometimes you are in positions where you are slowly losing a game because you are losing one center each year. To turn it around you have to make something unexpected, with the risk of an immediate loss of game if your opponent does the right thing. With your rules, the correct decision might be to accept the slow loss, and not even try to turn the game around.

That's a good point. i don't mind such tactics however, especially if it can go both ways. Someone will stall as ussr in my nato game, then I'll stall my ussr in their nato game. It became a race on who can outlast/outfinish someone, and i think that's under my description of an outplay. And who's to say which power has the advantage when there have been instances that ussr is the victor instead of nato, which may play a role. You don't have to agree with me, it's just a thought i have.

You wanna play two games of Austria vs. Turkey?

It's a setup where Austria always win. But if Turkey does it right, then the win will be slow. So the game is about who can survive the longest as Turkey. I only tried it a couple of times, but you get quite interesting and tense situations!

Except in Cold War, NATO doesn't always win. Even between Bsiper and myself

https://vdiplomacy.com/board.php?gameID=44545#gamePanel

It was good while it lasted

Umble, your opponent is Coffee

Ah...and I was looking forward to versing you. Maybe in the Nexus if both make it.

It's interesting how you knocked him out of Nexus and he knocked you out of vDip's tournament.

There's nothing stopping a friendly match! I'm not in enough CW games now

There's nothing friendly about my matches :)

Umble will face coffee. Feel free to start those games while Superwerty waits for Mittag or Maucat.

I see one Umble v coffee game, but where is the other?

Hasn't started. Since we have time, I wanted to play the one at a time. I'm also in the Nexus Cold War tournament have multiple ones going on there.

I've lost both games now

https://vdiplomacy.com/board.php?gameID=44708#gamePanel

Disappointing performance from me

Good tournament Coffee. Superwerty, Maucat, Mittag...I'm waiting ;)

Mittag leads 12-11, 12-12. This may take a little bit.

vDip players curiously prefer to not finalize their orders very often...hence a 1v1 tournament that has lasted almost 4 months already with only 16 participants. I'm just hoping I don't get into a car accident before one of them makes it to me...or is that their plan :)

Expectations. Always expect a tournament to take a year, at least.

“Keep your expectations high on achievement and low on people.”

(No idea who originally said that, but it wasn’t me)

This feels like walking by the house with the old man on a front porch who says Come sit down and stay awhile...pretty soon you're trapped in a never-ending tournament and got a vDip tattoo.

We don't do infinite replays, unfortunately.

But it would be fun to survey _what_ people like about 1v1.

Personally, I consider each position to be a puzzle, where your goal is to find the best set of moves for you and for your opponent. The fun thing about playing is to contemplate over all possible continuations. I mean, there's no reason to delay if the orders are obvious. But submitting orders for the sake of speed just ruins the fun with playing. IMHO.

I assume other people like the rush of betting on what your opponent will play?

I'm a fan of the ever-shifting movement in Cold War, specifically. You constantly have to bring troops from different places to defend or attack, weakening others in the process. Even the most casual bounce or support hold can be second-guessed.

I tend to rush my moves because if I obsess over every combination, I second-guess myself and lose the more creative solutions. This does admittedly mean I lose more games than I should though.

I don't care too much about move sets going long. But retreats and builds going the distance is a little much in my book.

But the builds are maybe the most important orders in the game..?

1v1 requires 0 press. A person doesn't need 2 days to figure out the moves or builds.