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I like a close game, but it usually doesn't go so well for me.

T_T Why do I suck at strategy games?

I prefer "Slight Win," because that means the opponent put up a fight, so, while not as much a "learning" experience, per se, than a total defeat, it still gives you a decent amount of knowledge as to what you can do to get a solid win or total domination next time. Also, a slight win would mean that you were playing a worthy opponent, making the probability of you having some of a lot of fun very likely.

ZacktheChaosChild wrote:I really don't care because I have fun either way.

This.I have played a few games recently where much laughter was heard around my flgcs as moments of comedy unfolded during the game.

Voted Slight Victory. In these games, I feel its just more exciting to have it all come down to the wire. I think its more rewarding knowing you had to work hard for your win.

Monster Rain wrote:II actually prefer a loss to a draw, so I even when I could conceivably pull a draw I usually go for a longshot victory. Go big or go home!

QFT

I chose solid win, but I really don't care. I just want to have a helluva time.



Doesn't mean I dont like winning now and then

To quote miniwargaming " it doesnt matter who wins or loses , i t just matters how much you kill" and frankly the closer the game the more carnage IE more fun

I love games that come down to those last turns and those final rolls. Both opponents watching eachothers rolls carefully, whose favor is the lady in today. At this moment, who holds the future and who remains in the past. That bit is why i like playing, having to 'earn' a win. Feeling, that was worth the hours spent playing.
If I look at a field and see I've dominated, I lose interest in the game and start playing crappy lists until I feel my opponent has a better hold of their army. If I look at the board and see I've been completely dominated, I remind myself Spacemarines are stupid and SpaceWolves were not made with any playtesting versus an ork army.

Let me rephrase something slightly. I love a close game, unless my opponent is a Space Wolf player, then I hope I kill his psykers on the first turn and my boyz smash his stupid termies with bad armor saves on his part and his drop pods fall into the warp. All hs vehicles fail dangerous terrain checks and my Nob Bikers ride through his other troops like lava through a forest. F*n SpaceWolves.

Slight Win.

A close win always feels better.

I like a tight game where I come from behind.

That sounded somewht lewd now that I think about it.

I love winning. Heavy Win. But I don't mind losing, and I do feel like I learn something with each loss.

Valhallan42nd wrote:I like a tight game where I come from behind.

That sounded somewht lewd now that I think about it.

Favourite game is always a close one. If it gets to the point where the entire match comes down to just a single moment (or a few close calls) then the result isn't so important.

The best games are the knock down, drag out fights that i barely pull out a win. most recently was at GameX in LA. I had two minor victories that came on the last roll of the last turn of the games. Awesome.

Slight wins, simply because they are the ones i get most often

Slight win is easily the best ( lucky dice!) .

Slightly win because both gamers have fun in friendly games.
In tournaments, I want to smash the enemies.

I require nothing less than dealing my enemies a crushing defeat - the more humiliating for them the better! I mean - if you don't wanna win and win good then why bother?

(The reason I like this outcome is 'cos it happens so rarely!)

In tournaments, complete annhilation and nothing short of it. Anytime money is involved the kid gloves come off.

For every day/week play, I like close fights.

Cause for 1. I've been on both sides of the coin, It doesn't feel good getting your perverbal teeth kicked in, and not scratching your opponent, so obviously they aren't going to like it either and you can tell it when you have only 2 or 3 models down and thier army is wiped away.

2. I've found the difference between awesome armies and cake walks is a.) IRL finances, and b.) experience.
Little 15 year old Timmy with his 10 dollar a week allowance is almost always going to get thrashed by the 40 year old/100K bank roll guy who's been playing since Rogue Trader days. Just facts of life.

I grappled the shoggoth wrote:CRUSH YOUR ENEMIES
SEE THEM DRIVEN BEFORE YOU
AND HERE THE LAMENTATIONS OF THE WOMEN

Came here to say that.

Though its better in the full version:

What is best in life? (in Arnolds voice) To crush your enemies...to see them driven before you...and to hear the lamentations of their women.

An inch or a mile, winning is winning. Its the only true answer. Why?...because it doesnt happen every time, so when it does it should be enjoyed.

I love those games where both armies and players are on the same level. At one point it looks like he wins, then it looks like I win and finally I scrape through cause I had that tactically brilliant idea.

Slight win...both players had fun and the game came down to the last couple of turns. Blowing someone out is only a tournament thing and even then you have to be a good sport about it. I just feel wrong if I wiped out my opponent and he didn't get to even do anything because of the waxing he took.

Last game i played I won with the last Terminator in my Deathwing army holding an objective. Every other troop choose was either falling back or destroyed and no one was close enough to contest. It was a space hulk battle and every army got pretty mauled.

I love a good back and forth aggressive battle that ends in a draw. my buddy and I had a knock down drag out fight on a table, and it was epic gaming time.

we had to have a bro hug afterwards. awesome fight. we were both just stoked about a good match up.

NO HOMO

Utter crushing defeat taking no casualties. I get extremely angered if the opponent rolls any higher than a 4 for anything in the entire game.
The sake of my e-peen is too great for anyone else's happiness.
although it is fun when someone laughs during the game

A slight victory really gives you the satisfaction of being the better tactician, especially when you're outnumbered.

I always strive for option 1 - to win with a flawless tactical performance. However when I have crushed my opponent (especially when my Tau went up against Space marines in their paper mache training armour) the victory was so unbelieveably hollow it reminded me that perfection should never be achieved.

Slight victories are the best, where your opponent has really pushed you all the way.

A close game.

A game that is not hard-fought and won (ie, a walk-over) is somehow not as satisfying as one you have to work for.
I'm not that keen on gimmes.

Slaughtering the opponent,but barely.Like rolling just what I needed and no more.i.e.,if I 4+ for everything,I get 4 for every thing.

While I enjoy a crushing victory as much as the next fellow, the best and most interesting games I play are when I go up against one of the Ork players in my league, and 9 times out of 10 it ends in a total draw - both sides having completely annihilated each other to the last man. I love it when two armies hit each other and explode.