I've often marveled at the all-to-common habit I've seen of guys basically going suicidal on their first move of the game in some dogged pursuit of a card. Certainly the first part of this has happened to all of us. You're leading off the game so you've got no easy attacks. You deploy your 3 armies, roll the dice, and bam, you lose 2. Pissed but undaunted, realizing that, although your hopes are slim, if you take the next two, you're still in business. Bam, you lose 2 more. OK, now you're hosed and there's nothing you can do about it but make it worse by then making a bunch of useless attacks rolling 2 die vs 2 die.
I sit there watching as all their armies go from 3 to 1 all over the board. Then the inevitable, "Man I'm getting crappy rolls!" in the chat area. If you are referring to your first two sets, then I hear you, happens to me more than I'd like. However, if you're talking about the fact that somehow you didn't overcome insanely bad odds with the rest? Wouldn't know what you're talking about.
I bring this up now because I typically only see this behavior from noobs. However, in a game I just started, I watched someone with over 2000 pts do the same thing (albeit, he didn't go ballistic all over the board).
Is there something I am missing here? Is this ever a good idea? By and large, I avoid any attacks where my odds of success are less than 50% unless there's a big pay-off waiting for me (like eliminating a player and taking his cards or taking the last country of a one border continent that I'll be able to protect).
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