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Hi,
So we were playing Risk the board game the other day. And I notice that if my rivals do not think like I want them to, or play with tactics and techniques that I know work best, it gets to me! I feel sad that a rival does not thinks like I want them to!
How sick is that! Did it ever happened to you?
I mean why would a rival worry about me and ways how I think that they should think or play? A rival would seek opportunities to win for themselves and at my cost in Risk, with tactics that they are certain that work best, why would they bother with my BS?!
Yet it gets to me for some silly reason. Deep down I go like "Oh why won't you think like I want you to, why can't you play like I want you to!" I do not think it is over-control neither. It is just silly.
So advice on how to overcome this for it is costing me my games would be helpful. Thanks in advance.
There's an old military adage "no plan survives first contact with the enemy." The point is to teach flexibility, and to recognize that the enemy is capable of reacting to changing situation too.
Hi,
So we were playing Risk the board game the other day. And I notice that if my rivals do not think like I want them to, or play with tactics and techniques that I know work best, it gets to me! I feel sad that a rival does not thinks like I want them to!
How sick is that! Did it ever happened to you?
I mean why would a rival worry about me and ways how I think that they should think or play? A rival would seek opportunities to win for themselves and at my cost in Risk, with tactics that they are certain that work best, why would they bother with my BS?!
Yet it gets to me for some silly reason. Deep down I go like "Oh why won't you think like I want you to, why can't you play like I want you to!" I do not think it is over-control neither. It is just silly.
So advice on how to overcome this for it is costing me my games would be helpful. Thanks in advance.
Think yourself lucky..when I played board games with my brother and I was beating him..he used to up-end the game and chase me round with a look of demonic hate on his face, trying to hit me!!:lamo
Think yourself lucky..when I played board games with my brother and I was beating him..he used to up-end the game and chase me round with a look of demonic hate on his face, trying to hit me!!:lamo
Is the question in the OP a joke?
The point of games like this is to win ...
Hi,
So we were playing Risk the board game the other day. And I notice that if my rivals do not think like I want them to, or play with tactics and techniques that I know work best, it gets to me! I feel sad that a rival does not thinks like I want them to!
How sick is that! Did it ever happened to you?
I mean why would a rival worry about me and ways how I think that they should think or play? A rival would seek opportunities to win for themselves and at my cost in Risk, with tactics that they are certain that work best, why would they bother with my BS?!
Yet it gets to me for some silly reason. Deep down I go like "Oh why won't you think like I want you to, why can't you play like I want you to!" I do not think it is over-control neither. It is just silly.
So advice on how to overcome this for it is costing me my games would be helpful. Thanks in advance.
No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy.
Edit: oops, Cap'n Adverse beat me to it...
Any alternative wise ones?
Your input would be interesting on this. Please engage?
So, you are playing to win right, they are also playing to win right, they play differently than you, and WAM, it gets to you!! Ever happened to you? What would you advise me for having this issue?
My wife and I played as a team against two other people who invited us to play a game. Neither of us ever had. My wife and I read over the rules, set up our strategy - which seemed obvious enough. Her and I both fixed singularly on attacking only one of the two them, with a only few diversionary and seemingly stupid attack points against the other. By the time they figured it you, it was too late to save that one of their team - making it 2 against one.
Made them so angry that he just quit, said we "weren't playing right," and he seems to have never really gotten over that.
How do you "not play right" if you win a war game?Besides, that's the rule of a fight if 2 against 2. Hold off the stronger one of the two just enough while both of you totally take out the weaker of the 2. Then it is 2 against 1. In 2 against 2, you take out the weaker of the 2 opponents while doing minimal to hold off the stronger one.
People have their own styles and ideas. This is such a basic concept of human interaction and so obvious that I have trouble understanding why this would bother you.
I saw some DP peers post posts of "You play to win." Perhaps I play for the thrill of it and when people play down it understimulates me. Hence I wish them to take other steps.
But then they win! It is like them winning with mud, snakes, poison plants, when you had artillery, airplanes, etc.
Then you need a better understanding of strategy. Again, if they win, they are doing it right, its as simple as that. It puts it on you to learn why.
Exactly. It is like Vietnam with its low tech (e.g., underground muddy caves causing death with spiders, snakes, sneaky dart poison), understimulating moves, and overstimulating USA with high tech (e.g., helicopters, planes, bombs, tanks, etc).
Hmmm... Having written this though I see how they feed with my overstimulation and provide understimulation in return, blowing my esteem, and perhaps by purpose? I have been playing with the same guys for a while. Perhaps they have grown into my moves!
Now how to back them off from this?
Is the question in the OP a joke?
The point of games like this is to win ...
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