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I'm assumig this is my game vs harveylh in Div B of the Early middles ages section. The situation was actually quite complicated. Most of my Scotts Irish were taking cover in woods and I could see about half of his army. The situation in the league table was, he was sitting joint top with 7 wins from 7 starts with dkalenda having played one more game. I was a lowly 4th in the table with no chance of getting higher, I was quite amazed to see his units falling back with apparently no intention of doing battle. On turn 7 he suggested re-rolling another map but I pointed out that this needs to be agreed in the first 2 turns so we were stuck with the map we had. After a few turns of light infantry skirmishing we both agreed to call it a day, but I do feel he missed a trick as a 0-0 draw is equal to a loss pointswise. Anyway I was playing tactically based on the league situation, if i'd needed the points I would have been more aggressive (and probably loststockwellpete wrote: ↑Wed Nov 28, 2018 2:29 pm We have had out first agreed 0-0 draw this week.It was because the two players had not realised after two turns that the terrain was prohibitive for both of them. For Season 4 I will increase the turn limit for agreeing a draw from 2 to 3.
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As Mark said it was complicated. Mark had all his medium inf hiding in the woods initially. By about turn 4 I had spotted about half of his inf and had started to advance my Indians towards them. However there was a very large woods on my other flank and since I had not spotted the other half of his inf I started thinking he was going to pour out of the woods and ambush me. So I started to pull back and moved all troops into an open area away from all woods. I had sent two LI partly into the very large woods early on, but had pulled them out as my skirmishers on the other flank were outnumbered. In hindsight I should have kept looking for the missing army half which I never did find. I thought sending my bow and elephants into the woods was a bad idea. Later Mark told me most of his army was hiding in the trees as he believed I would be more aggressive. I thought Mark had the advantage and it appears he thought I had the advantage. My first draw ever in all my league and slitherine tournament and friendly games.markwatson360 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 28, 2018 6:13 pmI'm assumig this is my game vs harveylh in Div B of the Early middles ages section. The situation was actually quite complicated. Most of my Scotts Irish were taking cover in woods and I could see about half of his army. The situation in the league table was, he was sitting joint top with 7 wins from 7 starts with dkalenda having played one more game. I was a lowly 4th in the table with no chance of getting higher, I was quite amazed to see his units falling back with apparently no intention of doing battle. On turn 7 he suggested re-rolling another map but I pointed out that this needs to be agreed in the first 2 turns so we were stuck with the map we had. After a few turns of light infantry skirmishing we both agreed to call it a day, but I do feel he missed a trick as a 0-0 draw is equal to a loss pointswise. Anyway I was playing tactically based on the league situation, if i'd needed the points I would have been more aggressive (and probably loststockwellpete wrote: ↑Wed Nov 28, 2018 2:29 pm We have had out first agreed 0-0 draw this week.
Yes. It is worth pointing out though that we have yet to have a drawn match where one player gets a point and the other does not.klayeckles wrote: ↑Tue Dec 04, 2018 1:20 am so on a draw where i score 25+ and my opponent scores less than 25, i would get 2 and he would get 0...correct?
Well, there is still a big difference between winning and losing although we are narrowing the gap somewhat between a win, which always gets 4 points, and what might be called a "score draw" (25%+), which will now get 2 points instead of 1. Whereas this season, the gap between a win and a "score draw" was 4-1.
The alternative would be to score it 4-1. On balance, I think 3-1 is preferable as matches that end something like 60-50+ are usually very close affairs that could easily end in draws, or with the other player winning. The result often depends on a single melee or rally outcome rather than clearly superior skill by one of the players.likewise the winner of this match only getting 3 points seems odd
Yes, this is a possible outcome of narrowing the gap between a win and a draw. I have increased the threshold to 25% from this season's 20% figure in recognition of this and it may be necessary to raise it to 30% or even 40% in future. I will be keeping statistics next season as well. Currently, about 1 game in 20, or 5% of matches end in draws, which I think is OK. I do not want that figure to go much higher though. Certainly, if we end up with 10% draws next season then that will be too many and we would have to increase the scoring threshold for "score draws".To me this new proposal looks like it will encourage people to play for a draw more than the current system.
