Some great games... made possible by experienced players who didn't delay the game by keeping their troops on their capitals forcing you to slowly card block them.
A good capital spot (playing with progressive cards) is usually a border territory which is hard to card block. A good capital spot example - Vienna, it connects to 6 different territories, it's a border for Dinaric Alps, it connects to Germany which is usually used by a lot of players for capturing territories once of the most holds are captured, then it's the centre of the map, a lot of players will go through the centre of the map unleashing your capital. A bad capital example - Savastopol, it only connects to one other territory meaning once you capture it - your capital becomes blocked, then that connecting territory only connects to 3 other territories meaning that another player could card block by only setting up 3 different armies on those territories if you got wiped out from anywhere else. Good capitals could also be 1-border territories, but also it depends on the place of the map and the stage of the game. To illustrate that, 1-border Spain with a blizzard on Andalusia and a capital on Gascony could be a very good capital in the beginning of the game to help you snowball the game or at least make yourself a stronger position, however, in the endgame that would be very easy to cardblock that capital and that +4 troop bonus wouldn't mean much. If you got any follow up questions - feel free to ask 👍
Thanks for the advice! I do know that putting a capital in a pocket is bad because someone could capital in front of you and block as you mentioned. I’ll try this strategy out of some of the maps I have and see how it goes.
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The friendship with black in the second game made a tear roll out of the corner of my eye
The blue / purple , red / black coalition was a fair 2v2 battle. What a waste purple chicken out, and his passivity made blue eventually give up.
I can respect the pink and black players for their desire to win. GG! Thanks and God Bless!!
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Very lucky!
Some great games... made possible by experienced players who didn't delay the game by keeping their troops on their capitals forcing you to slowly card block them.
I don’t play many Capital games. What is the secret to choosing a good capital?
A good capital spot (playing with progressive cards) is usually a border territory which is hard to card block.
A good capital spot example - Vienna, it connects to 6 different territories, it's a border for Dinaric Alps, it connects to Germany which is usually used by a lot of players for capturing territories once of the most holds are captured, then it's the centre of the map, a lot of players will go through the centre of the map unleashing your capital.
A bad capital example - Savastopol, it only connects to one other territory meaning once you capture it - your capital becomes blocked, then that connecting territory only connects to 3 other territories meaning that another player could card block by only setting up 3 different armies on those territories if you got wiped out from anywhere else.
Good capitals could also be 1-border territories, but also it depends on the place of the map and the stage of the game. To illustrate that, 1-border Spain with a blizzard on Andalusia and a capital on Gascony could be a very good capital in the beginning of the game to help you snowball the game or at least make yourself a stronger position, however, in the endgame that would be very easy to cardblock that capital and that +4 troop bonus wouldn't mean much.
If you got any follow up questions - feel free to ask 👍
Thanks for the advice! I do know that putting a capital in a pocket is bad because someone could capital in front of you and block as you mentioned. I’ll try this strategy out of some of the maps I have and see how it goes.