Hello all 
Just wanted to share my joy over reaching Top 40 Elite League and Top 6 Global in 60 games.
Special thanks to Slavella, AVTactics, kuzestanx, Falzano, and countless others for their forum posts, in which I learnt a lot of strategy from.
My takeaway is that Arena with HighNoon/A Fistful of Cards is actually more strategical and reduces the luck and random factor. Even though the positioning and drawing of the cards are still random, you are
1. Able to see the next expansion and prepare for it, and counter the opponent's potential moves.
2. Able to synergize with teammates even better
3. Able to channel even more powerful plays, and rewards planning a move in advance
4. Stimulated to play more conservatively, as many expansions penalize a player without sufficient cards in their hands.
I would like to argue that the game mechanic of positioning determines how the game goes. The cards you draw is secondary. If you are on the left of sheriff, you often find yourself jailed and duelled against extensively no matter what your role is. Having the manual choice for characters on also increases the strategic factor and reduces the random chance of you drawing Vulture Sam in 4 player mode.
A factor not as extensively delved into in this forum is the personality of the person, I feel. Some players, no matter what their role is, tend to go all out, leading to the herd effect - in which a player is eliminated before the first round ends and the results are prematurely finalized. Moreover, it is now common for outlaws to manipulate the sheriff/renegade by attacking other outlaws/deputy, leading to the deputy being attacked instead.
Finally, even if Bang! is such a luck based game, in luck there is strategy. Luck means there are attributes and events happening beyond your control, but as Slavella and many other pro players pointed out, you can facilitate the environment, and even calculate the odds. As such of a coin flip or dice role, overtime the chance becomes a percentage that you can exploit, and it would be really helpful if anyone can calculate the odds of each expansion. I know it depends a lot on context but outliers generally do not affect the majority of games played.
Finally, I am planning to collate a megathread listing all the strategies and hidden/advanced mechanisms in Bang! that I feel even most Elite players rarely exploit. Please feel free to add to it (or offer constructive criticism)!
Let's see if I can reach both the All Time and Current Season leaderboard in under 150 games total.
Just wanted to share my joy over reaching Top 40 Elite League and Top 6 Global in 60 games.
Special thanks to Slavella, AVTactics, kuzestanx, Falzano, and countless others for their forum posts, in which I learnt a lot of strategy from.
My takeaway is that Arena with HighNoon/A Fistful of Cards is actually more strategical and reduces the luck and random factor. Even though the positioning and drawing of the cards are still random, you are
1. Able to see the next expansion and prepare for it, and counter the opponent's potential moves.
2. Able to synergize with teammates even better
3. Able to channel even more powerful plays, and rewards planning a move in advance
4. Stimulated to play more conservatively, as many expansions penalize a player without sufficient cards in their hands.
I would like to argue that the game mechanic of positioning determines how the game goes. The cards you draw is secondary. If you are on the left of sheriff, you often find yourself jailed and duelled against extensively no matter what your role is. Having the manual choice for characters on also increases the strategic factor and reduces the random chance of you drawing Vulture Sam in 4 player mode.
A factor not as extensively delved into in this forum is the personality of the person, I feel. Some players, no matter what their role is, tend to go all out, leading to the herd effect - in which a player is eliminated before the first round ends and the results are prematurely finalized. Moreover, it is now common for outlaws to manipulate the sheriff/renegade by attacking other outlaws/deputy, leading to the deputy being attacked instead.
Finally, even if Bang! is such a luck based game, in luck there is strategy. Luck means there are attributes and events happening beyond your control, but as Slavella and many other pro players pointed out, you can facilitate the environment, and even calculate the odds. As such of a coin flip or dice role, overtime the chance becomes a percentage that you can exploit, and it would be really helpful if anyone can calculate the odds of each expansion. I know it depends a lot on context but outliers generally do not affect the majority of games played.
Finally, I am planning to collate a megathread listing all the strategies and hidden/advanced mechanisms in Bang! that I feel even most Elite players rarely exploit. Please feel free to add to it (or offer constructive criticism)!
Let's see if I can reach both the All Time and Current Season leaderboard in under 150 games total.
