Cheating

[2ndLt_Fjun]

Call me cynical, but when I see someone on the ladder with 70 wins, no loses or ties I figure they have found a way to play outside the system, so to speak. To many random events in this game for the die to always fall one players way.

Glad we don't have anyone on the ladder with 70 wins, no losses or ties. Even Narwan has managed to pull out a draw or two.

But I don't agree about the random events. Sure, the game is a long coupled path of random dice rolls, but you can affect the probability of each dice roll to make it as advantageous as possible for you in so many ways by knowing your units capabilities and using sound tactics, both on the bigger level and in micromanaging the units. Looking at the top ELO players I've seen both Narwan and Cross play first hand from the receiving end and they are extremely good. I'm not surprised to see their score line and they don't need to cheat to win. This is a game of skills, at least in the long run, and 25 turns of a game is usually long enough to prove that.

Having a long streak of wins/high ELO etc. is also about choosing favourable conditions where the opportunities to win are even, i.e. not playing years, scenarios or settings that are unbalanced enough to more or less per default give you a loss. For example Vesku is also a very good player but more "brave" in choosing different types of scenarios. Used the quotation marks sicne there's nothing right or wrong. Either way is fine in my eyes. If you like to play meeting engagements in 1944 only that's fine too.

Sometimes it's easy to look away from your own lack of skills and instead blame a more skilled opponent of cheating.. ;)