I can still remember the facial expression of my two Nationals opponents when they first laid eyes on Dairy Queen.

It was the :cross-eye :ermm: :noid:

that says, "Holy carp-fish! How the heck am I gonna beat that?!?"


(note: both fielded a 200+ pt Mech against my dual-tank-drop, artillery, infantry swarm, 2x command army-o-milk)

@ Quacker

"Klingon Defense" ... Do tell?

The Klingon Defense is where you slam your fist onto the board, stand up, sweep all the pieces onto the floor, and call your opponent a coward and a P'Tok.

Or you could use the Drunken Highlander Defense. Stand up, woble a bit, point at them with your left index finger, call them a "sheep ####ing wussie boy", and hit them with a roundhouse right. From that point you pretty much go with the flow.

@ Quacker

P'Tok ... Eh?

I figured it was something like that.

Thanks.

Of course there is some. Declan always scares my enemies.

I've got a new kind of psychological warfare I want to try out as soon as possible. :)

I made laminated Blast Area templates in matching colors for each of the different sizes of artillery blast tokens. The idea is to hold the template over the battlefield and the units on it as you "decide where putting the artillery marker will do the most damage." The 3" radius template takes up an impressive area when you remember that 3" radius = 6" diameter!

And since I also have Rusty Cooper, I can't wait until I see someone's eyes bug out when I "test the placement" using an 8"-diameter purple Blast Template. :D

Clock play isn't stalling, precisely. But playing to the clock instead of the field. The player who takes 7 minutes to perform 3 orders. The player who keeps track of the exact time left, so as to manipulate the last order. The player who uses orders, rules questions, rulings, lines of sight, measurements and conversation to take time away from the game. This is a player who is doing "something" every minute, as opposed to someone who is stalling, IE not doing anything for long periods of time, or "thinking".

As for the turtle army you describe, try sticking in one Balac, either SwSW or ROTS, and taking out one infantry, then with the move and shoot, moving out of his range. You're ahead on VC1 and VC2, and noone has VC3. Turtling armies are extremely vulnerable to being outranged.

I have a clear 8" blast radius circle that a friend of mine made for me, and had it at Nationals. You never saw so many people's eyes bug out, when I put it on the table LOL That is, until they realized I had no artillery in my army.

Forkit2oyou

Neg, that guy who didn't bathe for a couple days and stank like hell used CHEMICAL warfare on you guys.

I attended my 1st and only Judo class and one fat gorilla of a Sensei was just as stinky man. He never washed his gi at all.

Yup. She is MAC after all, and they were merc's at one point. I just figure she's going back to her roots.

And in larger scale games, I love pairing her up with two SS Centurions, nailing a green unit with her first to do the 5 clicks of ArP plus the 1 click for Ruthlessness, then following up with 5 clicks of ArP from either of the Centurions.

Chemical warefare is psychological
just like Nuclear Warefare is psychological- Take Japan for example, we droped a nuke and they quit!.....I hate quitters

forkit2you

careful with making sweeping ww2 generalizations buddy

Most people get scared when they see Balacs, or MHI Defense Vehicles when they have Balacs. Then some people just don't like tank drops. :devious:

The most useful psyghological warfare that I have found is to make helpful suggestions to your opponent on his turn. I frequently do this during tournaments (especially moves that he might be considering). You should see the look on their face as they try and figure out what kind of trap it is that you are planning, or even better, as they try and adjust their strategy. Sometimes I just state the obvious with no ulterior motives, and other times I make suggestions that would lead to a tactical advantage in my favor, and still other times I mention moves that might hurt me, but ones that he will eventually figure out so as to confuse and intimidate him into doing something else. The fun thing is that while everyone knows I do it, they never know what I'm up to. Makes for a very fun game on my part.