Game Mechanics

[Copper]

Ability in CM is the function of five things:

Capacity (to learn and apply the mechanics and unit abilities)
Intuition (to know thy enemy and make good decisions)
Time (the more time you can apply to evaluating your turns the better)
Codified knowledge (in military tactics at the squad level)
Commitment (if you do things half arsed, expect half arsed results)

The above is an ordinal weighting of each functions importance from top to bottom. Capacity and Intuition are the two things that separate the best players from the average and IMHO separate the boys from the men, so to speak.

This in no way reflects upon how much fun is derived from playing the game for one or both players, only on winning. If that is not the case, the entire post above is moot.

If you wish to be the best you can be and generate the most fun for both yourself and your opponent, apply the following:

1) pick opponents who have similar functional outcomes from the above formula
2) practice humility
3) drink beer.

It's amazing how #3 seems to make the world a better place for everyone involved.

Lastly, the above 5 point formula for CM ability can be completely subsumed in the case that you are anointed by God to be a destroyer of men. This anointment is often only temporary, and is purposed to strike down with furious and righteous anger, those who bear hubris and arrogance in their breasts.

To this last point, I wholeheartedly encourage more efficacious application, as it's heavenly function keeps us all humble... and doubly works to expose those who are diseased with the affliction of arrogance, pride and hubris to be cast down into the fires of hell to writhe and burn in agony for all time.

So sayeth the Shephard.

; )

Cheers!

Leto