Hello!
I’m holding a competitive cakeday party to celebrate my one year membership of webDip. I love gunboat games. I made my first 100
with gunboat and that’s how I taught myself tactics.
As a scientist and competitor, I’m always trying to find the central tendency underlying the samples. These one-off games, even 7-game series, still are just too small a sample size. I’m looking to *really* know who’s best. Who earned the top spot more than anyone else. Who can *consistently* win, *consistently* come out on top. Plus goddamn I love gunboat.
The proposal is 50 games at 5
each (a total of 250
). I could go higher in game amount, up to, say, 100, if there was a 7-player consensus but for now we’ll start with this as I don’t want to scare too many people away to quickly! I’d prefer Hidden Draw Votes but it’s negotiable, let me know your preference.
No need to shuffle countries, part of the allure is the possibility of getting the same country or, even if you don’t know it at the time, same local player allocations and seeing how the different games turn out.
I realize this is a significant RR commitment. For me, I never take more than 30 seconds for a gunboat game, unless I’m over 10 units. Then it takes a whole 60 seconds. There's obvious exceptions but in general I find the optimal move and go on to the next one. Then again, I'm not the top of the top yet so maybe I should spend more time on them ;)
Do *Not* Enter if you aren't super duper confident you can handle it. It's ok. No one is going to judge you. I'll still love you. I'm not planning on any vacation that removes my internet access ... ever. I know not everyone is like that. Or they have progeny. Who does that? Seems like a waste of perfectly good gunboat time and energy. Anyways.
Games will be 48 H/phase with readying highly encouraged. At 48 H/phase you can submit orders at 12:01am, and still have until 11:59pm the next day for the next set of orders, so it’s 100% guaranteed that you only need to check once per day if you’re that kind of person.
As far as scoring goes, I would assume the standard
-N for win
-N/M for M-player draw
And for tie-breakers:
-Amount of solos, then total SC count
In summary:
I humbly invite you to
50 games at 5
each
No In-Game Messaging, Anonymous, Winner Takes All, (Hidden Draw Vote)
48 H/phase
Let me know if you have any questions or interest.
the cake is a lie
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