The Lotto Question -and the Secrets behind Great Strategists

[psychicwarrior]

This lotto issues comes up continuously. It seems whenever someone is lottoed agains t and loses a high ranking piece they complain loudly, yet no one complains when someone hits a one of their bombs.

My experience is that all players without exception start gambling when behind.. and complain about others doing it when they are ahead. Hypocrites run rampant on this subject.

Of course one likes to think they are smart by putting all their bombs in the back row only to have a crash and burn player come through the front lines like a fox in the hen house. Yet this is the risk you take by doing so. The illusion of thinking you are so smart quickly disintegrates.

On the argument that this is no skill to simply lotto, there is a point to that of course yet... any army must always be prepared to handle a frontal assault as well as a deceptive strike. Failure to do so and complain the enemy doesnt think will have a real soldier sitting in a POW camp for many moons. Smart generals now you must be ready to handle that possibility and if you don't.. the torture chambers await.

Furthermore you completely and very naively discount the value of intuition and a players ability to "read" or sense the opponents set up..this is a key factor not to be ignored. As a person who studied with Department of Defense psychic team leader, and what they term "remote viewing", I know first hand that all powerful armies around the world employ psychics to "tune in" to the opposing leaders to "sense" what they are up to. The Russians and Chinese are the best at this. They employed these tactics very successfully in WW II. The chinese are brilliant at even using a persons horoscope to predict their actions. Is that cheap and underhanded? All is fair in Love and War my friend. Don't be so naive. The Vietnamese used this very effectively against the Americans and showed the powers of Planetary and Psychic predictions. They demonstrated that superior determination and ability to employ both psychic and psychological warfare beats overwhelmingly superior wealth, technology and steel.There are many other great examples of this, Alexander the Great is but another who employed psychics ( they were called oracles back then) to "read" the enemy.

In fact even now, American and Russian Psychic teams , combine talents to determine unknown phenomena in space where no other intelligence possibilities are available. The book Psychic Warrior by David Morehouse, with whom I studied, depicts this in detail.

So to completely discount this "lotto" style of play as rudimentary is simply showing that you fail to recognize the true power of the mind and spirit coming through our "6th sense" of intuition. When it is correctly employed in games like this where deception, bluffing and intelligence are big factors, it can be your most effective weapon. Many of the top players in Gravon are very good at this. Nobody has enough scouts to figure out everything.

YOur argument, if taken to poker, would mean bluffing would be illegal and playing with the completely absurd Idea that we should just play with all cards showing leaving to complete chance who wins, rather than adding the real and great game that it is where all is hidden and deception and secrecy are key weapons.

Stratego is the same. Eliminating the ability to lotto would make it boring and lifeless. If you want to see all the pieces, play chess. That's purely a game of infinite combinational possibilities that keep people analyzing it for years. Bluffing, lottoing and deception as well as planning your positions all combine to make it a fascinating combination of skills that make Stratego the great game that it is. A wiser player understands this. To the less wise, they simply complain and label others lottoers simply displaying their lack of awareness of the real game at hand.

Now in Dozer's case in particular, I may suggest, having played him many times, that if you dont rattle on him for being a lottoer, he is usually nice enough to hit the same bomb twice ;-0.

[ricardo90]

there are always players who likes kamikaze from the beginning but let them play with there braines , stratego is a tactical game not a kamikaze game

greets Ricardo90

[-deleted594]

Running your mouth isn't making you any smarter edfx. Keeping your mouth shut would be best.

this would be also a good start for 2006 as far as your postings are involved mr. 2pac

Stratego

[ricardo90]

[psychicwarrior]

Spoken like a true - 14 yr old who has been discovered and is now angry about it. Changing your alias from FLAMER - as in "flaming queer" doesn't hide the truth. We all know about you. And sorry if my writing is simply beyond your intellect ..someday you may grow up.