Where's the Beef?

[sadistic]

Show me your best piece and the odds are against you. Hide your power too deep and you can easily be trounced by an aggressive opponent. So where do you put your 1, spy and 2? Behind the ponds? Too obvious. On the sides, second or 3rd row? Leto likes this setup but I find it unbalanced. Hiding your power is one of the keys of the game, until they can bring in the proper dividends. As a rule I do not expose my 2 for less than a 4. I don't expose my 1 for less than a 3. Stratego is a bitch's game, lets face it. In the beginning it is, anyway. Defense is the key. Good pitching will always beat good hitting in baseball and a good defense will defeat a good offense in stratego. Stratego changes gears, however, as soon as information becomes available. It is at this time when a good player transforms from a bitch into a blood crazed, bearded, testosterone driven killer.

In the grand scheme of things, males are programmed for offense and females for defense. Follow this analogy; on a football team there is an offensive crew and a defensive crew. In life there is the same alignment, the males being offense and the females, defense. If an offense never scores any points, nobody respects it. If the defense is plowed downfield every time the opponent flips the ball, there won't be much respect for her, either. Sometimes you hear about people complaining about the double standard. There isn't any such thing. Expectations are different for males than they are for females and for good reason. Do your best femalian imitation early in the game, then bring out the man once your opposing bitch exposes herself. Mount her and enjoy. These are lessons for stratego from your all time great, Sadistic.

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Hey Sadistic

Great post! Good analogies. Someone is going to miss it!