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capnq has this to say:

I personally don't enjoy testing things just for the sake of testing them. I just play the game, try my best guesses, and if they don't work, try something different. After owning SE IV for over a year and a half, I can't really remember how and when I learned most of the things that I do know.

And tesco samoa had this to say earlier in the thread:

I think this area needs to be explored more... Or are we all holding back our strategies here... I am holding mine back

I am beginning to feel there are at least 2 approaches to using the battle strategy menu:

1) The easy going player who learns as he goes, who eventually gets most things right with time (but not all?), and may or may not know how he got there.

2) The more determined player who really wants to understand the nuances of the strategies menu, so much so that he is willing to spend a lot of time testing the various options in order to apply the correct selection to whatever scenario he is confronted with.

All things being equal, I would think the second type of player would win more battles and more games.

In both cases, but probably more so in the second, the knowledge is so hard won that there is an understandable reluctance to share it.

And maybe the reluctance even extends so far as to not being interested in having MM explain how the strategies menu works because then the playing field would be levelled and the advantages gained through 1) experience and 2) effort (testing) would be negated.