Armies from deadbeats in team games

Kahless · Post by **Kahless** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 11:50 am

Anyone else think it's unfair that deadbeat armies automatically go to teammates?

In a recent game on the classic map, yellow and pink both teammates had Europe between them. Pink deadbeated, yellow got his armies and immediately having control of Europe without losing any armies, which he would have had to do to conquer them of his teammate.

Another case where it seems that deadbeating has its advantages

detlef · Post by **detlef** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 12:25 pm

You'll need to point out the game. I've never seen this happen. Was this doubles? If so, how are yellow and pink on the same team?

Kahless · Post by **Kahless** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 12:29 pm

It was trebles, but cyan wasn't involved in Europe
http://www.conquerclub.com/game.php?game=336194

ClessAlvein · Post by **ClessAlvein** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 3:44 pm

The fact that you get no help from you ally for 3 turns, and that those 9 troops are lost forever kinda balances it out.

pancakemix · Post by **pancakemix** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 3:59 pm

Not really in this case. He only needs to hold that continent for two turns to get those armies back.

Colossus · Post by **Colossus** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 5:01 pm

I've had instances where a partner has deadbeated on me or on an opponent that has given the remaining solo player a clear advantage. I've actually won in one of those instances where my partner deadbeated, but the vast majority of the time, the loss of cards and at least 9 armies is a severe handicap for the remaining player. If the deadbeating partner's armies just went over to neutral, a solo player in a team game would almost always lose. That would simply be unfair to the remaining partner. Yes, the remaining partner suddenly has much more territory and armies, but also only gets one card per round (as long as you're playing a game with cards), and that is already a pretty serious handicap. The situation as it is now is as fair as it can be.

Bigfalcon65 · Post by **Bigfalcon65** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 5:46 pm

yea ive had this happen to me tooo, i also think it is wrong, they should become netral armies

CrimsonDeath · Post by **CrimsonDeath** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 5:56 pm

Colossus is right Falcon. If it goes Neutral, not only does the single player outcarded and outarmied.... but he's also much more out-territoried.... lol Dont worry when I'm through you guys will have developped quite an extensive vocabulary

Kahless · Post by **Kahless** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 11:22 am

Another point about my game, why did pinks armies go to yellow who already had the other half of europe, when they could have went to cyan, the third teammate instead.

When a triples player deadbeats, who decides which of his teammates inherits the armies?

yeti_c · Post by **yeti_c** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 11:28 am

Kahless wrote:Another point about my game, why did pinks armies go to yellow who already had the other half of europe, when they could have went to cyan, the third teammate instead.

When a triples player deadbeats, who decides which of his teammates inherits the armies?

It goes to the "first" team mate...

i.e. the person of that team who first joined the game...

So in triples it's either Red or Yellow...

Unless of course they are already dead - then it goes to the next player down the list...

C.