Some thoughts
Hello
So i'm currently playing two games and in each my country has been at the beginning scattered in many differents islands. Well, I suppose it's bad luck, but of course, it don't helps managing a war, the more with your naval forces often being far away and scattered too.
Compared to someone who begin on a continent, it's a great disadvantage as your naval moves are easily blocked even by players you are not directly fighting with. In my opinion, you shall do something for preventing a player being in this situation. Perhaps giving him more naval units at start, as he is in theory a naval power ?
Also Fighters planes seems excessively potent. One of my adversay as tons of them. I don't see what i can do to prevent him razing me. I've build some AA units, but they're very weak. Do they have a hidden bonus against planes, because, if not, i'm missing something.
This is a very fun game, even though i've made some mistakes as i'm still getting used to it.
Pretty sweet.
I playeed the single player game. This sis a pretty sweet game. I cant wait to play some real peoples.
islands vs continents
Hi Cyberstratege,
We try to make the initial allocations as fair as possible, but yes, it looks like in both those games you got relatively poor picks; more so in the 5 player game than the 10 player game. However, you did get a few good islands. Islands are very good to have because they are easily defended. If you consider the number of borders you need to defend, it's easy to see that an island is a much safer property to own than anything on a continent. Just need to spend a bit on your navy.
For more fair initial allocations, we recommend playing one of the games with pre-set starting allocations. Such as World Powers or WWII.
If you do end up with poor picks, you really need to work the political game. A big part of playing Forces, is negotiating with the other players. It's pretty hard to win a game without making a treaty or two along the way. This is all done informally using the warmail system.
Aircraft are quite versatile, since they have very good movement characteristics. However, for the cost, they are less effective in a battle than any land forces. SAM launchers ( AA guns ) get one shot at each aircraft attacking them, so they are an effective defense/deterrent against aircraft ( not for attacking though ).
Ok, hope that info helps! Great to have you playing! Have fun!
- Michael Alexander Ewert
Director of Meta-Operations, Human Cube Inc.