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Originally Posted by Ironhawk
Out of curiousity: why are the noobs so against having a backfield player? Is it that the boredom of that position outweighs its value, for you?
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Well, I think that's part of it, but only a small part. To have a certain amount of players to accept a 'support' role would always be difficult, but I think it would be especially so in a team of "Noobs", who, for the most part, have never played together, and, by definition, lack experience.
I mean, that kind of willing team sacrifice would be the mark of, well, a veteran player, folks who have played a lot, interacted a lot, and know each other reasonably well.
That's quite hard for us Noobs to coordinate. Plus, there are some valid strategic concerns, like if you have 4 Noobs in the "backfield", the odds at the point of conflict (the "front" as it were) are much reduced, from 2-1 to 3-2.
Yeah, theoretically the Noobs could make that up, and then some, with whatever the "backfield" nations were producing, but that's kind of hard to coordinate. I suppose if you gave us noobs a couple of months or so(!!!), after the map and all the races have been chosen, to get to know each other, maybe game out a bunch of scenarios, we might be OK with such a set-up
In the absence of that, I think we need to go with our strength - 2-1 odds, and press that advantage from the get-go.
That's how it seems to look to me (and I
did volunteer for a support role when I joined this game).