Defensive Style Player List

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Greetings fellow Gravonians. I hope that the new lunar year has been treating all of you well. Below is a ranked list of defensive players with rank #1 being the most defensive and so on. I have nothing positive or negative to write about this style of play, I simply decided to compile this list for the curious or bored. If you are extremely bored you can add,subtract, or change the order of this list. I also have to offer the most valuable piece of Stratego advice you will ever read -- "Do not, under any circumstance, ever take Tableplay's Stratego advice".

Cheers, TP

1. Tim (apparently the loss of a scout is on par with the loss of limb for this player)
2. Polar Bear (an old veteran of the WSC who may possibly be active under a new alias [such as Tim])
3. Pellew
4. Patriot
5. Deadeye
6. Tableplay (prefers an offensive style but due to a lack of brain cells and ability to formulate offensive strategems is forced to play defensively)
7. Keyser_Soze (a very tricky player with a rock solid defense)
8. Panther
9. Noes (I am relying on the insightful comments of Sadistic here as I have never played this high-ranking player)
10. Citron505
11. Brookdale (anecdotal -- I have never played this fellow)
12. Sadistic (his game grows more offensive as his information base accumulates)

[sadistic]

I agree with your list, tp, but I am a relatively new player and do not know who some of them are. Offensive players tend to crave information and hopes that an early aggressive, risky attack will place them ahead in the game. In stratego, aggression comes with risk and to play this way requires the understanding that one might very well lose a general for a colonel, etc. Some players do not mind this type of trade. I am not one of them but I have seen it work if other factors of the game can compensate for any disadvantages. Playing defense is simply an easier way to do well in this game. However, playing excellent defense takes skill; knowing how to spread out one's pieces or bunch them up, depending on the circumstances. Good defense means setting up your pieces in a way that denies your opponent penetration into your side and includes a posture that leaves an escape route for your more important pieces if your opponent should enter with a superior, unknown piece.

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Tableplay..thx for the compliment my friend..i always admired your style and solid game...see you on the battle field.. Keyser_Soze!!
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Great posts guys. If I've left someone (or more than one) out feel free to add them to the list (if you're really bored).
Sadistic I couldn't agree more, playing great defense definitely takes a lot of work in it's own way and sweating things out. I especially agree with your point regarding the aggressive player's mindset with respect to losing a high-ranking piece as long as they get a slightly lower-ranked high-ranking piece out of the deal along with some info. For example Ambiorix could care less if he loses a general (as long as he gets the colonel) because he feels that he can tactically make up for the loss in other ways. Gpet0 could care less if he loses a colonel since he feels as long as he knows where one's marshall and/or general are located that things will work out fine (and they often do). Whereas our mindset is that we don't usually wish to sacrifice a high-ranking piece for information (the exception might be playing against Brasnikos where you might sacrifice a piece to get him to stop slow-playing you or intermittingly leaving the battlefield -- the prudent Gravonian might only play this fellow with the Bronstein clock on rather than have to sacrifice a high-ranking piece or two to speed up the game. Bronstein clock or not, I have not found a way to keep his wanton and inaccurate insults in check).

Best Regards, TP.

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Noes is the player in my opinion who is taking the art of defencive play to an extreme level.

Sure he is good, but I got a different style of playing.
What's why (when we play real life) our games are often very nice to watch.

Wussy
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