SpielByWeb

[camylarde]

moved 8 armies from Böhmen into Passau, occupied by lesk's 2 armies aided by peasants
-- 8 of camylarde's attacking armies plus 0 from the cup and 2 of lesk's defending armies plus 1 from the cup go into the tower
-- 6 of camylarde's attacking armies and 4 of lesk's defending armies, aided by 0 peasants, come out of the tower
-- The attack succeeds: 2 of camylarde's armies occupy the conquered territory, and 4 return to the supply along with 4 of lesk's armies

Now would anybody experienced please explain to me why 3 Lesk's armies got into tower and 4 emerged?

[wchieng]

Well the battle tower may of already accumulated cubes for Lesk. In a battle, cubes may be dislodged from within the tower which lead to your result. Thats why after some battles you may see that you have 'armies from the cup' as a result from your cubes dislodging.

[camylarde]

[Big Bad Lex]

[lesk]

This leads back to the argument over whether to show the number of units in the tower as well as in the cup. In real life it is obvious some are left in the tower and it is difficult, but not impossible, to track what is in there. Online, it is not obvious how the tower works but it is easy to determine how many are in there as you can count everything else. It even shows the number of units left in supply.

I hope we can accept that online is different from real life and can get this number shown as well. If not, can you try and simulate the real life occurance of bumping the table and getting some extra cubes into the cup. I find this is a good strategy when you lose count

[Riff]

[bwtcf]

[bwtcf]

When you play Settlers of Catan and you have a monopoly card, do you count, or at least geusstimate which pile of resource cards is the smallest to work out which resource there is most of in people's hands?

BC
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[TexasToast]

[camylarde]

[Big Bad Lex]

[bwtcf]

It doesn't take any time at all. Well sometimes it might take 5 - 10 seconds to finish... but I do it when everyone else is having their turns. What do you do with that time?

If you are keeping track of it you don;t have to recount everything each turn, you just count the bits that have changed and recheck a few things.

BC
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[Golux13]

I suppose if you have Rain Man counting speed and memory, it's easy enough in a live game, but for most mere mortals, keeping track of three other players' cubes is not a simple matter. Counting the cubes on the board is easy enough, but people don't stack their supply cubes neatly, and as cubes go into and out of the supply, the piles get messier, not neater. It might be possible to have a running estimate, but if you lose track of even a couple of cubes, your tower calculations will be off. The online implementation gives you the numbers you need, so calculation is a matter of moments.

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