[Stone Mill]

Originally posted by Dralasite:

Maybe you can get the next person you match with to play a game where you don't pick 20/20/bezerk?

That would seem unusual. I would estimate that most people don't want to be told how to create their race. And they don't necesarily want to broadcast their stats. And this would be a pain in the butt to enforce.

I've never created a 20/20/berserk race, but the next time I play KOTH, I most certainly will, just to be on a level playing field.

DavidG and Zarix,
I love using intel and other strategies, and have been on winning teams in big PBW games because of it. In big games, there are many variables, so even a talisman player (see: beating the Talisman thread) is not an unstoppable threat. I would expect a 20/20/berserk race would have the same problems. So I still see the flexibility I enjoy in larger PBW games.

The difficulty lies in one-on-one games: If you go for the intel route, it is very, very risky against an agressive 20/20/berserker. If you are building intel facilities, you are foregoing those precious research and mineral facilities... so that will obviously put you behind the 8-ball. If you aren't dead from and early assault, you will find you may do plenty of damage, but intel alone won't win you the war... even the ships you capture will fight with your stats, not his! It seems like a nice complimentary tactic, but you will still need to slug it out with ships. And if you can't hit, you can't hit...