[SPOILERS] Wargroove FFA Fog of War: scooter's thread

[scooter]

By request, an update...

[scooter]

So I'm doing fairly well right now, but I'm spread a bit wide. I've been able to push directly into the center of the map untouched, which feels more like luck than anything else. Also, this map is not balanced, so everything is a bit weird.





The main issue right now is that Cheater Hater (purple) has suddenly pushed a group up my east side unexpectedly. I knew he was advancing a few units up that way, but he sent way more than I expected. I also lost my dogs on all fronts in the last couple turns, so suddenly I'm hurting for visibility.





Superdeath is starting to push my west flank. Initially I was giving him a lot of trouble, attacking him over here early. He then built 2(!) trebs, which more or less killed my advances as I couldn't hit them without losing several units. I did lose several units to them anyway, 1 of which was totally preventable. The tricky spot I'm in right now is that I believe he's advanced at least one of his trebs into that fog area in the middle. That's not great for me, but if I can get visbility on it, hopefully I can run it down with my knight.





This is the bad spot. He's really invested a lot to deal with this area. I'll likely go for a double build from these barracks next to stem the bleeding and retake that village once he inevitably takes it from me in the next turn or two.






And this is where I'm having the most success right now. I've taken a barracks here that definitely doesn't "belong" to me, and the air base just below it has bounced between purple and neutral control over the last couple turns. I definitely don't think purple has enough to hold it. How much progress I make is partly dependent on how many resources I have to divert to hold the other two fronts. I've already swung some units back to the west to handle gray, and my income is going to have to be seriously dedicated to my collapsing east side.


Overall, I'm in a decent spot, but I suspect red is in a terrible spot given that I haven't seen him once all game, so if he dies soon, I'll lose out on the spoils of that.

[scooter]

I'll try to take some pictures next time I'm in-game, but things aren't going too well anymore! While early on I wasn't getting much attention from either neighbor, I'm now getting pushed hard by both, and it's caused my flanks to collapse. Just the nature of an FFA. Essentially my left and right flanks are collapsing, but my central group near Cheater Hater's core is still advancing pretty strongly. Overall my hope of hanging on rests on one of my neighbors being forced to back off. My income is down to 500g/turn, and I'm still getting pushed by two neighbors, so I'm not going to survive unless Bob (opposite corner) forces one of them to back off.

[scooter]

Pictures.





So this is the bad news, things are rough at home. I think I've got the east side contained, and I'll be able to flip it soon I think. My flyer had a really bizarre pathing issue that prevented me from using it this turn which was a major setback. It got "stopped" by a fog of war unit discovery, but the unit in question (now dead) was 1W of its current location despite moving north. I'm not really sure why I got stopped. Anyway, priority 1 is stabilizing this east side here and clearing out this purple wave, and locking down the southern bridge with a dog/ranged unit combo.


Step 2 would be taking the fight back to superdeath in the west and attempting to recapture the stuff he took from me. My main hope is that Bob pressures him, and I suspect it may be happening because he hasn't advanced much on me lately.





And here's the spot where I'm pressuring purple. He can definitely push this back, but it's at least forcing him to build units at home rather than closer to me, and it's leaving my barracks up above free. I lost all my dogs a few turns ago, and I was finally able to build a full wave of them. I was so desperate (and poor) earlier that I was pumping a spear from every barracks every turn, but I had a bit of a buffer now.


My position is still quite bad, but I think I've stabilized? As long as another massive wave of units don't show up next turn on one of my fronts at least.

[Hollybombay]

Following with interest. Do you have any idea how the others are doing or know who is likely to win?

[scooter]

I think superdeath has this one. He's still pushing me, and on the current turn, purple did a lot of damage to me (and I had yet another turn wasted by a weird pathing thing). I don't know how much longer I'll survive, but superdeath has the lead and isn't getting credibly challenged by anyone I don't think. I can only assume red is not challenging him because he's got the resources to continue pushing into me.

So I'll be surprised if anyone but superdeath wins now.

[scooter]

I've stopped updating largely because I'm just huddled in my starting base trying to stave off death. My game is over, my income is 100g/turn, and I have like 6 units, but I'm just trying to somehow survive longer than Bob. My commander is stuck outside of my starting area too, so I could die any turn now.