Originally Posted by
flogger
Not sure why mango is listed, I don't think he does wars. We played once together, he thought 3 straight wars we'd get farmed, and we won each by 50k.
Coss is a top 3 war guy, that's why he can seemingly create sleepy any and everywhere he wants, despite ragequitting on his kingdom every other age. He's good enough that if things go well, he knows what he's doing. Had he been still in Rage/Emeriti, this age for example, he woulda have done enough massacres to win that war, he's beaten me plenty largely because of that. He knows when to gain land and when to win the war.
Nesta's speciality is bank fights, probably the best record of that since he's been playing, the devs made that skill relatively useless, however.
My speciality is chaining core provs.
Bart's preparation the one time we fought was impressive and he has potential, but who cares if you only get in a good position after you arrange a farm war. The point of the game at the top is to destroy eachother's ego, and that doesn't do it. Would be interesting to see him give it a go legit, he seems to know the game.
Dorje's the only guy I've seen do really innovative stuff in awhile. Their first age back doing the full explore all defense, and his soldier swapping the two of recent memory, but he's had plenty of strats/styles that I've always admired. On the flip side, he doesn't seem to anticipate counters well. First age explore all def and win, obviously people will come up with a counter the next age but he doesn't anticipate that he's gonna get triple hostiled the next age when trying it as he's a giant farm for 12 hours doing that.
Mainly his hyper aggressive lets start every age owning everyone mentality has been cool to watch for 30 some odd ages. It made him the least liked of the abs kds, but from a pure numbers/gaming aspect taking out the politics was the most impressive. Waving CR OOP with CR going dwarf is an example of that. No way dwarf tact of all setups should have to eat a wave, that was just better strategy. As someone pointed out though, mango may be really good at timing his CFs and crowning that way, so it didn't matter, thats probably why he yelled at me the one age we did play, he's not used to winning via tough fights, so I don't think he's on this list. But he wins ages.
Back when I played every age seriously I'd purposely know the best thing to do but then try something else just to be different/innovative. I imagine the ages dorje fails he might fall for that too. Not sure what's up with emeriti's last two ages of setups, they came off as just terrible to me. Not having war hero in a war hero age, then running war hero after a clear heretic age with no honor gains seems complacent after so much recent dominance. I wouldn't expect that next age, as I'd expect ASF and dorje to make sure they spend 20 minutes making sure they have a good setup.
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