Veggienauts

[TheGreatErenan]

(11-21-2012 09:45 AM)Zomus X Wrote:  I agree with BumbleBee123's strategy. Here's what I got out of it:
Turn 1: Spawn thorn with bramble
Turn 2: Spawn thorn with bramble and mother thorn
Turn 3: Spawn 4 more thorns in front to block off opponent's path with the 4 thorns you spawned last turn
Turn 4: Spawn 8 more thorns and so on
Turn 5: You get the idea

This had also brought a bit of luck into outwitters
If you're opponent spawns a row of thorns, one of them is the mother. You jump a soldier in and you're suddenly surrounded by 3 thorns after uncovering the fog of war. You choose which one you think is the mother. If your lucky, you choose the right one and all of them retract; if not, you have to use more wits. I think this can be improved if the thorns that are seen outside the fog of war are shown to be connected as parent/child.

Though this is an element of luck, it is comparable to the existing elements of luck (trying to guess what your opponent is doing in the fog of war, trying to guess their strategy, etc.). There's no randomness, only uncertainty.

What you say is true. You cannot always deduce exactly which barrier is the parent of exactly which other one(s). However, if you pay attention to the order in which the visible barriers are spawned, you CAN deduce which ones are NOT parents of certain others.

Also, how easily your opponent can deduce which barrier to attack or whether there are any particular weak points exposed is dependent upon how carefully you organized spawning the barriers in the first place.