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Originally Posted by Grimhelm  Of course, your comments about knowing a game are somewhat off, I think, though I do understand your point. Still, a person who knows a game better than another person typically stands a better chance, regardless of the type of game. I think, like me, you simply take issue with that particular style of strategy. In such games it is more about discovering symbiotic relationships than allowing the moves of another to dictate tactical play. In such games it is not so much about being out-maneuvered as it is about being out-discovered. |
Quite so. I tried to say that. Of course experience
should impact a game favorably (otherwise the game would be completely random, which I hate), but I was trying say that some of the games they enjoy favor the experienced player to an
extreme degree. Someone who has played 50 games of chess is probably (but not necessarily) going to beat the person who has played twice (I won my first game of chess because I out-maneuvered my teacher, who had played for years). But having played chess three or four times does not necessarily confer much of an advantage over the guy playing his second game. But with some of the games played there, the game favors the guy who has played four times to the point of almost guaranteeing the win over the guy who is on his second game - especially if the experienced guy knows something of those discoveries of relationships - or loves to read message boards sharing these insights. They remind me of people who play the collectible card games in order to create these "engines" of victory that chew up the game regardless of the skill of their opponent.
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Originally Posted by Grimhelm Wings of War is a tactical game. This is why we enjoy it so much. I think we are just more tactically minded, where the other guys are probably more "relationship" oriented. Even in D&D it is easy to see that I do not enjoy finding the right feat to compliment the right class or skill. I like out-maneuvering someone in the game with whatever talents I happen to have. You are much the same in this respect. |
I agree.
Speaking of types of games - we prefer tactical games, they prefer relationship-synergy games - Amanda prefers random games where the entire playing field is levelled via the dictatorship of the chance, such as
Sorry! or
Trouble or
Uno. Those games frustrate me as well.