Blotto's Game Supa vs. Oromagi vs. RM

The Board:

Rules of the 1v1v1 game:

1) "Diplomacy" in PM or in thread is not permitted. Feel free to play in a way that helps one of your opponents over another if you wish, but never in any officially agreed on way.

2) There will be five rounds. You are given 5 shapes to deploy on the first round and as with previous games that number is reduced in each round.

3) To help keep the board clear whenever all three players have a presence in a zone one of each of their shapes will be deleted until two or less players remain in the zone. This has no effect on the game, just helps keep the board easier to read.

4) Scoring rules are detailed in the imgur post.

Supa, I will assume you know how to play from watching other Blotto games. If you have any questions please ask.

Other than that, you each have FIVE shapes to deploy this round. You each have TEN shapes that cannot be deployed this round but can be deployed in subsequent rounds. Please PM me your actions when ready.

how do I know what color I am?

Oh, uh... oops. I had this in my notes but forgot to tell you guys. Sorry.

Supa - Red

Oromagi - Blue

RM - Green

we're waiting on supadud?

yes, but he just put in his move about 10 mins ago. Working on update now.

Edit: Actually supa misread the rules so we still waiting on him.

supa you fucked up, read PM and try agin.

Moves are in, here is the new board:

For this next round you each have FOUR shapes to deploy. Send moves via PM when ready.

IMPORTANT: Ignore rule 3 in the OP, with only 5 rounds I think we can fit everything we need.

Sorry for the delay, there has been some confusion. So uh... supa says he thought he was blue. You guys okay with starting over?

yes I was thinking this game will get interesting if there's rematches, revenge, habits etc. 

ok 

Supa has to tell which he thought red and green were.

Thought red was Oro and green was RM. I could've sworn I saw I was blue but oh well. Must have been false imagery

Done, see his response to your post.

Okay so unless there are any objections we are going to start over with the board linked in post one, send me deployments of five (5) pieces when ready.

Feel free to make different moves than you did before, or the same moves if you want.

To be clear...

I'm good to go

Okay then, here we go:

If there are any mistakes on my end let me know.

You each have FOUR pieces to deploy for the next round.

Round updated in post 17, forgot to tag you guys.

Moves are in:

Let me know if there are any mistakes with scoring or placement.

You each have THREE pieces to deploy for the next round.

Sorry for the slow updates guys. All three of you had your moves in just over 36 hours ago, delay was completely my fault this time.

RM - Z1

Supa - Z1

Oro - Z7

Oro - 10 pts.

Supa - 9 pts.

RM - 8 pts.

Well played, everyone!

If anyone has any feedback on making the gameplay better let me know. Should I allow 'diplomacy'? Should there be a different number of rounds? Different number of zones? Lete know.

I am going to take a break from advertising and organizing Blotto games for now but if any of you get the word out there and anyone decides among themselves that they want to play a 1v1v1 or a 1v1 I am happy to host at any time.

yes you should definitely allow diplomacy. Otherwise I would have won if i went full thug mode and refused to negotiate Zone 7 after Oromagi turned up there. we'd both just have added 2 to it and 1 and supa would have had free reign to win (except for some reason he put 2 into it, lol).

The entire problem with this game is the 0 point vs 3 point dynamic.

It should be 3-2-1 or 2-1-0 not 3-1-0 that's totally toxic and gambling oriented.

If I had played as defensive and logical as Oromagi did, we'd both have been doomed with supa having total dominance of the playing field. This is the fatal flaw of Oromagi's approach, it always guarantees defeat if someone else takes that approach while the third person does not.

I think I understand a bit more about the game now, though.

I already knew that everything revolved around excess points, if you spent more than 5 points where you didn't physically get points for that spending (so 5 excess is okay, any more is not) you were not going to win.

However, because it's 3-1-0, winning a zone matters 3 times as much as securing 2nd place, making the 5 points excess essential to gamble exceeding if you want to win.

This contradiction makes it very much dependent on guessing what others will do if you are to secure victory and that takes multiple iterations with the same people.

If I were to rematch these 2, I'd start in a 3-3-2 formation, exactly like I did the first time around. Then, in Round 2, I will merely make the 2 into a 3 and use my remaining 3 to either position in somebody else's stack who is low (forcing them to need to push more the next Round, Supadudz would more likely be a target for this than Oromagi) or if everyone had at least 3 in their things, I'd put 2 in one without any, to secure that 1, and then 1 on one of my 3's to make it into a 4 (because I'll end up needing to do that anyway).

The aim is to win 3 zones and have 1 while negating an extra 1 point for the opponent that is ahead. 

The lesser aim is to never win less than 2 zones and never have less than 4 extra if only 2 zones are owned, which is the same overall score and is optimal if the other 2 are hyper-defenders/attackers investing into winning zones.

Fumbled the W

I'm a lot busier than usual but I would still be willing to host one or two sets - I would change up the number of slots, pawns, and turns each game

gg & thanks

I'd be down