Mobi Style: Long Nine Strategy

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I really like the idea of making the Mobi push with a back-up sniper. I usually don't manage to amass enough wits to bring a second sniper and still have enough momentum for my main attack, but it seems to work really well - I need to try that out some time.

On that particular game: I think holding off the southern pushes would have been much harder, if your opponent had brought along a Scrambler instead of a sniper which costs nearly as much to walk over to the middle and arrives earlier.

(11-12-2012 09:43 PM)Emuchu Wrote:  Turn 04: I always make a big effort to protect my starting Sniper. As long as he's alive, my opponent will be reluctant to approach from that pathway.

I used to think that it's okay to trade the predeployed sniper for 2 runners (8 wits to move them there and attack), because you can't really prevent him from taking your top +wit space and save your sniper against certain openings. But your logic to protect the sniper makes sense, since a Sniper there is very hard to replace. I'm not really sure anymore. Aaaah damn you for making me think self-critically about my strategies!
Also with the 8 wits for player 2 around the corner it should be much less of an investment to keep the sniper alive I hope.

(11-12-2012 09:43 PM)Emuchu Wrote:  The Great, Big, Pink Book of Mobi

Awesome!