Nice! Did not know that.

Holy fuck, that's awesome! Reminds me of negative sanctions cards, and gift cards in MA games, but this much cooler.

Can someone please explain what the trick is? I would greatly appreciate it.

ZAjokester:

Turn 7, Timinator does not know how many armies will be left over in Panama at the end of the turn. He wants to blockade, but he only needs some armies to make a decent blockade -- if he has leftovers at the end of the turn, he wants those leftovers to transfer to Colombia instead of being part of the blockade in Panama. So first, he uses a transfer-only into an enemy territory (Mexico) to "mark" the armies for the blockade: the transfer will fail, and since the armies cannot have two different orders in the same turn, the armies will remain in Panama no matter what. Any leftovers that are not "marked" will transfer to Colombia; this didn't happen in the game because dead piggy stacked into Panama.

pfft screw you FK I was gonna be the spoiler asshole.

Edited 6/10/2015 02:09:25

^_^

A bug in the matrix. Very nice

Not really a bug teddy, just an understanding of game mechanics..
just like if you have an army on defense, and another army behind it, if you move the behind army up to defend, they break themselves on it, you can still attack with the full force initially there, because the moved army technically dies first.

yep it works,its weird not many players knew about it till now though :P

Well, I think most top players know the mechanics to the point they know this move is possible. It's just that % is typically good enough to do the same type of move.

yeah this trick is very good.
I think i used that just few times in all those years though.

And btw, only half of ppl posted here understand whwat timi really did xD

nice one timi :) smart!

% attack in such situations=you're complicating your life

Edited 6/10/2015 11:39:41

smart trickery! i have used the % transfer back trick a few times, but never a transfer only to lock a few armies in place.

Too much for my braincells.... i guess i stay with my "attack/defense/i give a sh... about delay" strategy :-P

Yeah, I have never done the transfer only to lock in armies either. Do attack/transfers of 0 actually delay moves though? I thought they did not because in mutli attack you could basically do them forever and they would simply not execute after a while. If they counted as moves you have a built in delay to infinity.

They don't count as delays, to my knowledge.

no they don't coun't as delays
however you can also do them in games without multi attack for your entertainment

when the move is not possible it doesn't count as delay (game just goes for next move in queue instead)

I love it - thanks Timi
whether I ever use it or not, I love the elegance