In a post in the DbD thread Forzaa wrote
Since I believe this is of a more general interest I have started this new thread.
First of all I want to say to Forzaa that I will kill you for making me remember it.
After this little prelude we can go on to the more important basic question.
As I wrote ingame to Forzaa my display got cluttered with messages about armies arriving etc and I could not get those messages away to be able to click for retreat on the armies and thus they perished one after the other.... It was horrible. As I recall I finally flung myself on the pause button and were thus able to save the last army.
I once read Damo telling that he played without these messages ON. That is remarkable I think, but perhaps something one should try to do. Although a young fresh brain is a necessary ingredient to make it work. Can't have bad "short-memory", i.e. tend to forget what you did 10 seconds ago
BTW, I paused at an earlier similar occasion when Karl was close to death and thus saved him. Forzaa was not very pleased about that.
The question is: do we have some kind of implicit gentleman rule about this. Is it OK to flung yourself on the pause-button when e.g. you get a message in 1780 that your navy is attacked and you believe it is quite superior to yours and that your only chance to have your fleet not exterminated is to
1. Press pause
2. get rid of the messages
3. retreat
4. Unpause
ForzaA said:Had a nice war with Austria.. turning point was probably the anihilation of ~100k troops in Transylvania that had an unfortunate timing, each army arriving just as the last had been anihilated.
..and apparently, artillery is not a necessarily component of victory![]()
Since I believe this is of a more general interest I have started this new thread.
First of all I want to say to Forzaa that I will kill you for making me remember it.
After this little prelude we can go on to the more important basic question.
As I wrote ingame to Forzaa my display got cluttered with messages about armies arriving etc and I could not get those messages away to be able to click for retreat on the armies and thus they perished one after the other.... It was horrible. As I recall I finally flung myself on the pause button and were thus able to save the last army.
I once read Damo telling that he played without these messages ON. That is remarkable I think, but perhaps something one should try to do. Although a young fresh brain is a necessary ingredient to make it work. Can't have bad "short-memory", i.e. tend to forget what you did 10 seconds ago
BTW, I paused at an earlier similar occasion when Karl was close to death and thus saved him. Forzaa was not very pleased about that.
The question is: do we have some kind of implicit gentleman rule about this. Is it OK to flung yourself on the pause-button when e.g. you get a message in 1780 that your navy is attacked and you believe it is quite superior to yours and that your only chance to have your fleet not exterminated is to
1. Press pause
2. get rid of the messages
3. retreat
4. Unpause
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