Artur Wrote:I'd put number 3. in the first place.
Artur.
I agree. A good plan and proper scouting will allow you to control your opponent. Remember the OODA loop. By controlling what your opponent OBSERVES, you affect how he ORIENTS hisself to that observation and his plan. That means you are making inputs to his DECISION making process, which in turn allows you to affect his ACTIONs.
Everybody has a plan, even if they aren't aware of it. The default plan is to run around and get shot to pieces. So unless you make a different one, that is what you are stuck with.
So while you may be forced to chane plans, it is still better to adapt a bad plan to changing circumstance, then to ride the default plan down in flames.
The one advantage of the default plan is that your opponent will never attempt to force you to change it. As a matter of fact, some players have even been know to help you acomplish it:whis:
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte