May as well play every hexagon
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I played the east map today, and it seemed pretty normal to me. In the beginning, I reinforced too many times, and all the spaces filled up, so I switched to stealing. Once I took out all the teams, it was just a matter of reinforcing and taking over all the squares.
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@saintleo14_MLBTS said in May as well play every hexagon:
I always think of it as a group of guys attacking a smaller group. When those crazy runs happen I just know I’m going against John Wick. I stand no chance.
"This is Sparta!!!"
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@Blind_Bleeder said in May as well play every hexagon:
I played the east map today, and it seemed pretty normal to me. In the beginning, I reinforced too many times, and all the spaces filled up, so I switched to stealing. Once I took out all the teams, it was just a matter of reinforcing and taking over all the squares.
I always take the strongholds out right away. I usually just do a run straight from stronghold to stronghold, but the east map is too small and the other teams territories are so aggressive. I guess you took out the Mets right away. I don’t remember what the rest of the map looks like because I wasn’t able to play today. What was your strategy? Aside from taking out strong holds first. What did you do to get to them?
Edit: I missed you said stealing. How often did you have to steal?
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@brainfreeze442 said in May as well play every hexagon:
@Blind_Bleeder said in May as well play every hexagon:
I played the east map today, and it seemed pretty normal to me. In the beginning, I reinforced too many times, and all the spaces filled up, so I switched to stealing. Once I took out all the teams, it was just a matter of reinforcing and taking over all the squares.
I always take the strongholds out right away. I usually just do a run straight from stronghold to stronghold, but the east map is too small and the other teams territories are so aggressive. I guess you took out the Mets right away. I don’t remember what the rest of the map looks like because I wasn’t able to play today. What was your strategy? Aside from taking out strong holds first. What did you do to get to them?
Edit: I missed you said stealing. How often did you have to steal?
That's what I do as well. Take out the strongholds and then the rest of the map.
Here's the order I took them in:
Mets
Marlins
Phillies
Nationals
Braves
Red Sox
Orioles
Rays
Blue Jays
YankeesI stole fans from the stronghold I was aiming for until the Red Sox and then I reinforced between strongholds.
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Just steal between turns build your wall. This one isn't as crazy as I've heard. I actually like that it takes some time.
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@BIG_PAPIx34_PSN said in May as well play every hexagon:
If I'm going to lose a 24-4 sim; may as well just play every hexagon.
Unbelievable
I'm not touching a conquest map ever again for this and because they're just tedious lol
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I will say this map has been a lot tougher than that easy ole Kraken map. A lot of those games can be played on Vet. So far only All Star available on Central map. Now I only play on All Star when I play conquest, but still. I noticed this for sure. Mainly how hard to sim it is.
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@saintleo14_MLBTS said in May as well play every hexagon:
I always think of it as a group of guys attacking a smaller group. When those crazy runs happen I just know I’m going against John Wick. I stand no chance.
So, say you have a three way battle between John Wick, Chuck Norris and the Honey badger, who wins?
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@chuckclc_MLBTS said in May as well play every hexagon:
I will say this map has been a lot tougher than that easy ole Kraken map. A lot of those games can be played on Vet. So far only All Star available on Central map. Now I only play on All Star when I play conquest, but still. I noticed this for sure. Mainly how hard to sim it is.
Did you have a hard time with the Eastern map?
I am speaking about the CPU’s ability to win simulations, even if it is clearly in your favor. -
Their "simulations" get pretty ridiculous. I only have the Brewers left to finish this one.
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I feel that I also have not played a conquest game that did not last 3 inning since before the last patch. I am constantly going 5-6 innings only for the cpu to get a bloop hit when no one can get to it. I have seen more diving catches by bronze and common defenders then I have ever seen. Sorry SDS but JD is not making a diving catch at this stage in his career or really at any point. Save that [censored] for show downs.
They have obviously changed things in the last update that they continue to push through when the east coast is waking up and they do not disclose what they changed behind the scenes. They did not only change the monments HBP or intentional walk issues. Seems like the sped up the timing and made the cpu more aggressive.
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CQ is easy, I do not have these issues, Most the time I take out as soon as I can play on Vet or Rookie makes it easier, I take as many empty spaces as possible I never steal unless it is required. When i SIM I use the best possible team, they I switch to the the team I want to play the games with, I do not get that issue of losing sim games when it is 20 to 3.
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They did something to the AI when you're simulating games. Used to be easy when you had double the amount of the territory you were attacking but now they'll loose a few and you loose like 20. Very frustrating.
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This time around I didn't take any East strongholds, just locked everyone in. It took MANY turns, but its OK I had an hour before I went to work.
When I get home, just the stronghold games to play this time around. I have at least a '36' spot around all the teams! -
@brainfreeze442 said in May as well play every hexagon:
@chuckclc_MLBTS said in May as well play every hexagon:
I will say this map has been a lot tougher than that easy ole Kraken map. A lot of those games can be played on Vet. So far only All Star available on Central map. Now I only play on All Star when I play conquest, but still. I noticed this for sure. Mainly how hard to sim it is.
Did you have a hard time with the Eastern map?
I am speaking about the CPU’s ability to win simulations, even if it is clearly in your favor.I usually play very conservatively. I probably could finish much quicker, but I played a ton of risk on the PS2 and got used to the AI taking out 20 troops with just 3 troops, so I generally don't sim unless I have a minimum of 15 more fans than the spot I am attacking.
Sometimes if I am getting a lot more fans than the team I am about to start fighting for space over I might actually not attack at all for one turn to ensure my perimeter is strong enough to handle an extremely aggressive AI.
That's the one thing about conquest I like the most. I don't have to race across the board. If I ever get good enough to beat all star more consistently I will consider moving more quickly, but I am trying to teach myself to do less since I am so awful at hitting.
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What platform are you playing on. Im on PS5 and I did not see anything out of the ordinary with simming or getting attacked by the CPU. If the CPU has more than 4 they will auto attack your 1. Simming games has always been dicey. But I feel like if you cut the team off from their stronghold it does not matter how many are on the other squares you will lose far less fans when simming those.
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