http://www.4shared.com/file/2Tx2BoJG/2p_-_Basilisk_ME_Fixed.html
So a few nights back, I was playing truth or dare with the folks on vent. Since Truths are easy, I went for Dares. Kallaster dared me to... well, let's just look at the chat.
What can you draw from this? Well, I had a series of objectives. Lose the game, and make it look like it was fair. At the same time, show in the game that I could have won, but threw it.
11/16 22:48:22 Kallaster: I dare you to play a game of Wesnoth with someone and purposefully lose.
11/16 22:48:31 Kallaster: *evil*
11/16 22:48:35 Yineth: screenshots or it didn't happen
11/16 22:48:40 Nil Athelion: Screenshots?
11/16 22:48:44 Kallaster: mmhmm
11/16 22:48:44 Nil Athelion: I can give you a bloody replay.
11/16 22:48:45 Kanhef: (This is why legalese is so convoluted, to avoid ambiguous interpretation)
11/16 22:48:47 Kallaster: :D
11/16 22:48:54 Nil Athelion: Or computer-cam a replay.
11/16 22:48:54 Kallaster: yes, replay
11/16 22:49:03 Nil Athelion: With commentary.
11/16 22:49:09 Yineth: < 3
11/16 22:49:29 Nil Athelion: Do you want me to make the other person think that I am playing hard, or do you want it to be obvious that I am throwing the game?
11/16 22:49:40 Yineth: playing hard :3
11/16 22:49:44 'Nil Athelion' has left the chat.
11/16 22:49:48 Yineth: >.>
11/16 22:50:05 Nil Athelion: Kall, what is your opinion.
11/16 22:50:07 Nil Athelion: ?
11/16 22:50:09 'Yineth' has left the chat.
11/16 22:50:21 Yineth: Bye bye Dopples
11/16 22:50:54 Nil Athelion: (Also do you want me to lose by leaving my leader open to assassination, or by over-all defeat?)
11/16 22:51:12 Nil Athelion: (Actually, it would have to be over-all.)
11/16 22:51:25 Nil Athelion: (None of the players I play against are really good at leader-ganking.)
11/16 22:51:30 Nil Athelion: (It's sort of my specialty.)
11/16 22:51:35 Nil Athelion: Okay.
I decided that I shouldn't make tactical mistakes, but rather sweeping strategic mistakes.
Mistake 1: Recruiting all pierce-vulnerable drakes, and only Fighters and a Burner.
Mistake 2: Doing a very ill-advised attack through the middle, where the great mobility of Fighters is negated.
Un-mistake 1: MysteryExclamation is playing Northerners, who have very little pierce.
Un-mistake 2: I send a fighter around the side - she doesn't notice, and he grabs all the villages.
Un-mistake 3: I slaughter her attack on the side.
Mistake 4: After slaughtering her attack on one side, I ignore the other side, save for the village-grabber (who I send to an early death).
By the time all the drakes are dead, I'm making 24 gold a turn... so I'm really winning. Her level 2 turns what should have been me scaring her off into... well, she loses her water-mobile level 2. I fight back a bit, and wind up with three level 2s, all saurians.
Mistake 3: So I decide not to recruit units until my current attacking force is done. Should put a damper on things - plus I have oodles of gold by this point.
Un-mistake 4: I seem to be winning. I crush the center, and dominate one of the sides.
Mistake 4: I don't take villages. It would have been seriously easy just to claim all the villages and let her run out of units, even against my guys.
Mistake 5: I don't kill her leader, despite the many opprotunities to do so from my level-2 magic-users. And everyone else, really.
Un-mistake 5: I still seem to be winning - even with her recruiting a few people, I still have most of the villages, and she's too busy to take them back.
...time to get tactical - I pit my magic-users on bad terrain against a high-HP unit in a village. Looks like he's going to die anyway, but I hold back my nearly-level-2 Clasher on the side, and give her enough time to kill them, leveling up some of her units. Also do things light attacking with low-health level 2 guy, using pierce-vunerable drakes against pierce-happy Goblin spearmen, etc. I even manage to bother up the battle in the west.
Un-mistake 6: She sees my Clasher. Now I have to attack with it, or everything looks silly. He has a chance to kill her leader outright. Awkward. Fortunately he fails, and "merely" levels up. I attack her leader again (she has more health now), and let her forces surround and kill my level 2 (rather than running off to a village and getting support.
And now it's just a matter of making it look real.
Mistake 6: I have 190 or so gold. I buy only six saurians with it. That's going to be my excuse for having no waves of re-enforcements - I was building up Saurians with all my money. Or something.
Mistake 7: I split my unnecessarily meager forces between two fronts, rather than using their skirmishing and range to concentrate power and kill things.
Mistake 8: I get my leader trapped out on the front-line (in the cave) so he doesn't look stupid not recruiting anything.
...and then I lose! Simple as pie! Kinda!
Are you happy now, Kallaster?
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