Truces and alliances always get other players nervous, except when it's some smaller players making a deal to help fend off a big guy. Making a first-turn truce is just asking to get pummeled in almost any game, because all the players who aren't part of the alliance will see it as a threat.

Doing massive breakouts too soon. One or two players are out, everyone left has a continent or two, and all of a sudden the new guy cashes his cards, drops everything on one of his border territories, and proceeds to rampage halfway across the map, cripple other players, and come very close to ...

So for Fog Of War, Unlimited Reinforcement games, do you guys think the early trick of putting all your eggs in one basket will turn out more or less effective than usual?

If he's a pushover then nail him this turn. His two cards plus the one you get for kicking ass means three cards (and the chance of more reinforcements) next turn, and if you don't take him out while he's weak, someone else will. The only viable reason not to nail him would be if those ...

Freestyle is a dirty horrible cheaters' game full of horrible nasty people who hang around to go last, and horribler people who'll hang around like vultures to go first if they think they can knock someone out and take his cards! (and it makes me feel dirty because I do it too) :)

But yeah, I ...