3v3 Africa part 2
So after last game the standing were:
1. All Blacks (xeno, Phakh, max) 2-0
1. Exploders (Juan, Apollo, waka) 2-0
3. Poop Squad (MT, Cluster, Drunken) 2-1
4. Irgeurs (Benoit, Bonsai, Patriot) 1-1
5. Army of Lovers (Love, Atom, Johnmd) 0-2
6. Space Dolphins (Inside, Pabse, Dolphin) 0-3 (dolphin getting booted)
This will be the direct game between the current undefeated teams
All Blacks vs
ExplodersPicks: All blacks went with a strategy where each player would have a dedicated 1-4 and then a mirrored 5-10 between all of them while Exploders went for dedicated 1-2 picks and then mirrored the rest of their picks
Initial Distribution:
All Blacks: Xeno got a double pick in/around High Plateau and a pick at west Sudan. Max got a pick in the Nile Valley, island in the central north and 1 in Rift Valley (directly between 2 picks from Exploders) and Pahkh got a pick in madagascar, East African Rift and Albertine Rift (jungle next to Rift Valley).
Exploders: I got my double pick on the mountains next to Niger and East Sudan as last pick which is directly next to my other 2 picks. Apollo got a pick in the Nile Valley, in Zanzibar and the East African Rift while Juan would be in Casablanca, High Plateau and Rift Valley
here a small picture of a part of the map after distribution.
All Blacks in Purple, Sea Green and Aqua.
Exploders in Deep Pink, Blue and Orange.
note: this are 13 out of the 18 picks in total.
For turn 1 we decided to go aggresive due to the fact all 3 of us were within close directly bordering multiple picks from our opponents. I just deployed the optimal on my border to attack Phakh who was direclty next to me and Juan would deploy fully and attack 1st move the stack territory from max which we would be able to do. Phakh went with his 2 central picks to the territory between the 2 of his picks to stack his armies in the center to 1 position and tried to prevent Apollo from taking Comores but Apollo would attack that with 4 in the end and manage to take that bonus.
In High Plateau Xeno decided to go aggresive and fully deploy in that area and make attacks of 6 and 5 on the territories connecting to the one Juan has.
After turn 1 the Exploders are 2 income ahead but positionally you can't really say anything yet i feel like.
On turn 2 both Pahkh and max were mainly focussing on Apollo while Phakh used his stack in Eastern rift area to attack Juan while Xeno was focussing on Juan in the High Plateau as well. Due to this Apollo lost his position in Nile Valley and Juan was in a really bad position regarding High Plateau in where he would lose that position in a few turn. In hte mean time i just started expending into Niger and went after the stack from Phakh since we were expecting him to attack in that region.
At the end of this turn Exploders their income lead is reduced to 1.
On turn 3 Juan decided to give up on High Plateau and focus fully on Rift valley which worked out since Phakh was more focussed on possibly breaking Apollo his income then staying in a good position in the center where he was 3v1 at this point already but he managed to eliminate Apollo from there this turn anyway but Apollo was only 1 territory to the side after all. At this point i finished Niger and we managed to get Phakh down to only 1 territory at the end of this turn. In the mean time Xeno gifted his Barotseland to max to give him a position to fight in the center as well.
After watching that turn we were like they need to gift Boratseland to Pahkh in order to keep him alive since he was in such a bad position but seems like they already used it at this point.We were also thinking about gifting Apollo a spot in the NW of the map but due to the fact that on turn 5 max would have first order we decided as a team to not do this since that might have meant we would have just wasted our only gift card.
On turn 4 nothing important really happened. Phakh managed to attack the territory south of him and stay alive that way. Apollo was just expending a bit into Madagascar which he took from Phakh the turn before (sorry forgot to mention it on that turn to be fair and too lazy to go back and mention it there) and max would just go and border Juan in both the north and the center at this point. The only real action that happened was me going into west Sudan with a decent stack since we figured that was the only place Xeno his 3rd pick could be at and we namaged to get that territory which might be crucual for the remainder of the game due to the fact it would give a double border to my income. On my other side i also went and moved on to work towards a double border on Xeno his main income but he moved into that territory as well on this specific turn.
On turn 5 we managed to eliminate Pahkh with a bit of teamwork due to the fact we were aware of the move order in this game being that apollo would move first from our team that turn and then Juan while Phakh had his move after both of them. Apollo would also take madagascar on this turn and max would advance in the north and bring Juan down to only 1 territory there. For the battle between Xeno and myself i focussed more on the south while Xeno went full deployment in the north which I personally didn't expect.
At this point Xeno had 10 income, max 12 income, apollo 10 income, Juan 11 income and myself with 12 income so we were 11 ahead on income at this point but positionally Xeno and max had the advantage.
On turn 6 Xeno attacked me on our nothern border but nothing really happened between the 2 of us. At this point i was hoping i could stall Xeno to a point where Juan and Apollo would win a 2v1 against max. Speaking about max he decided to try and eliminate Juan from the north but Juan calculated perfectly how many armies he needed to hold on to the north at this point. In hte mean time Apollo would try and help out Juan in the center and fully focus on getting towards high plateau to break Xeno his resistance.
on turn 7 nothing happened between Xeno and myself, only deployments on front and few delays from xeno. But on max his front a good amount of things changed. max has finally gotten all of the north for himself and he managed to take the majority of Rift Valley as well though this would go together with losing Barotseland and another territory in eastern plateau giving Apollo a border to both Rift Valley and High Plateau.
Now All Blacks had 26 income in total with a fully safe north of 9 income and Exploders having a total income of 32 but the least safe position out of the 2 teams.
It is unfortuonate that Xeno got booted at this point making this game change from a very close one into a game that max had no change of coming back from at all on his own due to the fact xeno went from 10 to 0 income due to AI moves (really AI is shit on this map specifically)
Due to this the standing in the tournament are as following right now.
1. Exploders (Juan, Apollo, waka) 3-0
2. All Blacks (xeno, Phakh, max) 2-1
2. Poop Squad (MT, Cluster, Drunken) 2-1
4. Irgeurs (Benoit, Bonsai, Patriot) 1-1
5. Army of Lovers (Love, Atom, Johnmd) 0-2
6. Space Dolphins (Inside, Pabse, Dolphin) 0-3 (dolphin getting booted)
Some other info on currently ongoing games.
Army of Lovers against Space dolphins has boots on both sides. The side from Space Dolphins has a replacement for the last game though while i haven't heard anything from Love regarding Atom his boots.
Space Dolphins against Exploders game will have a replacement in the place for Dolphin so this game that is in the tournament won't count and will get Rocky1 replacing Dolphin his spot.
Edited 8/30/2017 14:45:19
