03-23-2003, 05:40 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-23-2003, 05:45 AM by Skandranon.)
The build is what matters. The game, for you, branches into two completely different possibilities depending on whether France builds F Bre or not. If France builds F Bre and looks serious about it, you may have to abandon your attack on Germany in order to meet the new threat. Because it is still *possible* for France to pull off the English kill I saw in Spring 1902, just harder.
And yes, a newbie Italian is a sad, sad thing to see. Italy's best hope for centres really is France, but it looks as if Italy couldn't decide and therefore chose to do nothing. Unfortunate. Flipping a coin would have turned out better, even if it was to set up the relatively ineffectual F TYS-IOS, F IOS-ADR in the Fall. Actually, the moment he took Tunis with the fleet he committed himself against France, but he doesn't know it, and his indecisiveness may give rise to a textbook example of "vibrating unit syndrome" where his pieces simply move back and forth, turn after turn. As I said in my initial analysis; Italy is too focused on keeping and holding Tun and Ven - he's not thinking about winning so much as not losing, which isn't a good mindset.
And yes, a newbie Italian is a sad, sad thing to see. Italy's best hope for centres really is France, but it looks as if Italy couldn't decide and therefore chose to do nothing. Unfortunate. Flipping a coin would have turned out better, even if it was to set up the relatively ineffectual F TYS-IOS, F IOS-ADR in the Fall. Actually, the moment he took Tunis with the fleet he committed himself against France, but he doesn't know it, and his indecisiveness may give rise to a textbook example of "vibrating unit syndrome" where his pieces simply move back and forth, turn after turn. As I said in my initial analysis; Italy is too focused on keeping and holding Tun and Ven - he's not thinking about winning so much as not losing, which isn't a good mindset.