Safety Nets

[gryph89]

Alright well. SInce this is General Strategy, I have a question. It seems like I've been doing this alot lately and I can't break the habit. So Im asking the community if they do the same thing.

Do you create safety nets in the game? by safety nets I mean keeping a unit alive to assure you a draw in case worse comes to worse? Like I'll use this as an example. Me and Spencer were having a game, an amazing one at that, and about near the end, I was stuck with a frost golem and scout against his knight and DT. Yet I planned to leave the DT alive till the end before the game even started because I felt if worse comes to worse I wanted to make one last move.

Suffice to say, it seems like I dont even bother going after the DT b/c of this. And Im looking for some people who do the same, and see how they broke it.

[plusminus]

Interesting.

Sometimes it's not worth going after the DT. He's rarely my main target although I'll attack him sometimes if he's vunerable just to force him to retreat.

In a more general sense, start with a plan, but be willing to adapt it. Decide which units are the biggest threat, which are the easiest to kill, and so on. If you decide from the get-go to not attack the DT you might end up going after units that are harder to kill than they are worth at the moment.

[TacticsArenaOnl]

what are you taking abuot ?

[Cuathon]

meh i hit the biggest threats at the moment or on a 10 turn basis. mostly scouts mud and cleric but also wisp frost and DT.

[plusminus]

To elaborate on what I said before, because I forgot to include it:
Sometimes it's worth trying for a draw instead of a win. You have to decide at what point it's not likely for you to win, and try to cut your losses. This should NOT be the start of the game though.