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many players treat drafting and deployment as a necessary pre-game procedure rather than as an integral part of the game itself. In my experience, especially newer players often make critical mistakes during those early stages and spend the remainder of the game trying to recover from them. You're ...

Not grabbing a pitchfork, but not sure I agree. The game you commented is one of many. It suffers from being played with an open draft : IMHO, MB doesn't work well if you remove the needs to choose from a limited selection of units. Therefore, we watch another game of Freyr trying to grab the stones...

I understand your concern, but I'm not sure I agree. First, I won one of my last two games by killing. And if I look back at the hundred or so games I played here, I think at least 1/3 of them were ended by killings. (That would be true for the IRL games, both Pantheon and Ragnarok) So, it would tak...