[MN-dip] allequal_14

[Zachary Mark]

Fellow Diplomers,

First, good luck to everyone who joined the second
mn_dip game, and thanks to Ry4an for running it.

Second, I got a bit lucky and soloed the no-press game
allequal_14. Chad, that's why I asked you earlier if
you were in the game without saying whether I was,
since I was in it but knew the win was coming. Anyway
I can talk about it now, and here are the details.

(An aside to Chad, I assume you meant all_equal 11 was
canceled, not 13? I read the EOG email with interest,
thank you.)

The game can be found here:
http://www.floc.net/dpjudge/?game=allequal_14

And for anyone interested this was my EOG statement:

Broadcast message sent:

Broadcast message from Light in allequal_14:

Light EOG:

Thanks to all for a good and fun game. This was my
first all_equal game from start to finish, and I found
it very interesting that there were only three
retreats the entire game. Sometimes you might find
that many in a single turn, and I guess it means we
were all doing a decent job of getting into each
others' heads and anticipating where the attacks and
enemy movements were coming from.

Some specific comments: The hardest move for me, by
far, was F06. I had my choice of a blue or black
center and I really wanted to take the blue one. But
the problem was that this would leave a Blue fleet in
the Sea of Lavender which could in some scenarios slip
past my enemy lines, but more importantly it would
leave a fleet in Fire that I would have had no
guarantee of being disbanded. Once that fleet moved
into Rose it would be a major headache so I opted to
leave it be for the moment and try and dislodge and
destroy it later instead of merely dislodging it at
that moment. The nice thing about leaving Crimson
alone, too, was that the fleet occupying it was tied
down there indefinitely and wasn't free to move past
my lines without suffering the loss of the center. So
in the end it was better to maintain the positional
advantage even though it meant forsaking my only
guaranteed-take center that turn. Finally, in taking
Crystal I knew (as much as one can in this game) that
Sunshine would fall, leaving Dark entangled with
Yellow and therefore less likely to properly defend
against me. Which is precisely what happened.

Yellow, I see you won allequal_13, so I'm surprised
you didn't try for Cobalt with army Cold instead of
army Saffron in F05. I'm taking it that was an
uncharacteristic slip on your part?

Blue, I was a bit lucky to outguess you in 07 twice. I
almost ordered as you must have thought I would have,
and I was lucky to get those 50-50 situations. Red, I
would have loved to see you disband Snow instead of
Hot in W03 and defend against Blue and keep Ruby, but
oh well.

Again good game. Curious to know what others think.

Zach

End of message.


 
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