In post 223, Thestatusquo wrote:Holy shit, wait. No. Have I been misinterpreting the harringtons maneuver this WHOLE TIME?
Wtf.
Its the reason why Dan Thurmine won nationals back in 88. And why they havn't allowed harringtons manuver back in national play since. And why I'm championing Gilman's. See the actions resolve quicker overall and I feel it make for a more direct playing style. Especially feels good when you are victorious. It feels like instead of stacking gambit after gambit onto your opponet, you actually fought for your victory. Makes for a good game all around.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
In post 223, Thestatusquo wrote:Holy shit, wait. No. Have I been misinterpreting the harringtons maneuver this WHOLE TIME?
Wtf.
Its the reason why Dan Thurmine won nationals back in 88. And why they havn't allowed harringtons manuver back in national play since. And why I'm championing Gilman's. See the actions resolve quicker overall and I feel it make for a more direct playing style. Especially feels good when you are victorious. It feels like instead of stacking gambit after gambit onto your opponet, you actually fought for your victory. Makes for a good game all around.
I had to look up Gilman's play to see what you were talking about as I hadn't really heard that variation before. With the digging I did... well yes the actions resolve quicker on average, but that average is skewed by a couple of points:
You can land in Nid a whopping 32% of the time
A locked in situation can occur on roughly 10% of your plays.
That means 42% of a game is left with players having no option but to pass onto the next player, thereby lowering the average speed of the resolving actions.
Sure, the boost to 11% on the possible half price fare, and an increase from the 5% chance of an open latch combo on the east coast mainline to 8% can make for an entertaining game, it still means you spend almost half of the game struggling to get out of a bad situation purely through luck as opposed to good play.
If ypu try for the nid play you deserve to get locked up like that. You are dilbrately trying for a lagging win instead of earning it. Its karmic retrebution to a gilman player.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
Guys, guys, guys. You're not thinking this through. Ever since the Hypy Feint was invented back in 2001, Gilman's has been practically obsolete at international competitions. That's why Stewart Dunbar has had 6 world championship victories in the last 8 years...he figured out how to combine Hypy with the Protheus Swap to double his guardian tokens by the third turn and just completely dominate the mid-game with swarm tactics. By the time they reach endgame he can just go on autopilot by locking into the Sol Pattern for a finishing sweep. It's almost to the point where I think we need a new standard altogether. Have any of you heard of the Maher Proposal yet? They're trying to mitigate the time dilation factors in the current standard by introducing a clockwise reduction in supply every third turn. It really looks promising but I haven't actually gotten a chance to play it yet.
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