RBP2 Lurker Discussion Thread - No Players!

[sunrise089]

You mean apart from you landing on the complete wrong tile the turn of war declaration?

Yes, apart from that. That's a good example of a player making too bold of a gamble though, and loosing. My thinking was "in normal MP games I can make this kind of move right at the end of the turn 99% of the time, so why not risk it here too?"

The RBP3 version would be "I wonder what tile I should move to? I won't think about it in advance, nor will I ask anyone else about it. Instead I'll just sort of pick at random the turn after my units have been spotted by the enemy."

EDIT:

Well it was easier to coordinate in RBP1 as you could all move in from the same side, in this conflict two initial fronts were unavoidable. But I agree that things were handled poorly. Someone called it a comedy of errors in Spulllas thread, that was quite apt (and shakespearean).

Right, but in way this makes it easier too - all that needed to happen initially (once the grand strategic error was made re: Rome's arrival time) was for the Ottomans and Greeks to pick a good staging tile and then for the Mali and HRE civs to pick a route for their units. Best I can tell that didn't happen.