How is BattleTech Like Poker? | Classic BT Strategy & Tactics
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ต.ค. 2024
- Play BattleTech like a good poker player: don't overreact to bad beats!
MegaMek online BT game used for demonstration: megamek.org/
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I heard of an IS vs Clan game where a hunchback took out a fresh Dire Wolf (A 3/4 armed better than Bismark and Yamato.) with his AC20 by hitting the cockpit. Ended in victory for the IS.
I Also remember how frustrating it was when my freshThunderbolt (A 4/4 The one with jump jets.) got kicked in the face by my friends Catapult. RIP Thunderbolt..
"It's Battletech!"
Letting a Hunchback get next to a Dire Wolf seems like a pretty big oopsy
BattleTech is one of the most "swingy" games ever , honestly you shouldn't worry too much . The best thing to do is play Inner Sphere combined arms and have more hands
Luck is a huge part of the game, I won a game just last week when my opponent outplayed me pretty solidly. Any player needs to keep that in mind.
Well the more units you have even if weaker units the more room for error you arguably have. With expensive IS & especially Clan mechs when you have very few & possibly 1:2 with your opponent you're already behind on initiative, but if you make a bad move or two with a unit it's going to cost you severely.
I think the example with the Crusader truly was freakishly unlucky for it to happen on the first hit like that. But would we say the same thing if the Crusader was hit a dozen times by the AC/2? Or forty times by the AC/2? See, if the probability of getting a through armor critical is 1 in 36 (double 1s on location), and you're hitting forty times with the AC/2 over the course of a game, getting one of those to hit snake eyes on location isn't a bad beat; it's to be expected. That's why it's a mistake to ignore tanks like the Pike, or mechs like the Mauler, just because the cannons aren't putting up a lot of damage. Because if they are hitting three and four times a turn, they are getting a lot of chances to produce a crazy result on that location chart over the course of several turns. Hit enough times, crazy results are going to happen. But those crazy results aren't freakish. They are inevitable, and totally predictable, given enough attempts at that chart over enough turns.
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BT games really depend a lot on luck but having skill sure does help. Had a game where i took down the enemy fafnir early on the match with a headshot and still manage to lose because i had bad rolls the whole match.
It's doubly important in BT, because that cautious behavior will often cause defensive behavior and that will frequently lead to being pushed out of good positions by a more aggressive foe.
Thank you for these videos, im trying to DM a campaign but its kind of hard when I'm terrible at battletech.
Great video! Battletech has a lot of luck, but like poker its still a game of skill. Most important thing is to not let a 'bad break' slow you down! As long as you keep playing, it all balances out. I am a big believer in 'you dont lose games because of dice'. You might lose all your units in a game to headshots, but just roll with it, and see what points you can score even when you lose on the flop. See where you could have played better, in spite of the enemy getting those headshots, so that even if the flop kills your mechs, you can be confident you played the game correctly in spite of getting headshot at the end, and took as many points as you could.
110%. Like in poker, your mental goal as a Battletech player shouldn't be to win, it should be to honestly say to yourself at the end of the game "I made the best decisions I could with the information I had." Which is not an easy goal to succeed at in either game!
And as I'm sure you'd agree, the flip side of this is don't pat yourself on the back just because you won. If someone never has a game where they win but they feel like they were outplayed, that's a sign that they're being too easy on themselves.
This is such a common psychological trap Magic: the Gathering players fall into that it isn’t a coincidence some of the best pro players crossed over to poker with frequency.
I always take a Hunchback 4G in a force- it always influences the (human) opponents actions. Often taking fire that other units should be taking just because of the threat of the 20 hit to the head
I feel like it's possible to adjust your behavior to a very unlucky event without it being an overreaction.
In the example of the Crusader, sure, a CT TAC into the machine gun ammo was unlikely, but how likely was it that that machine gun ammo was going to actually do anything useful? If a dispassionate analysis reveals that the risk outweighs the reward, then playing more cautiously is still merited.
The key is just to actually do that analysis, once the bad beat revealed the possible downside to you, rather than just jumping to any action that would prevent it in the future, whatever the potential upside lost.
Agreed for sure. I do think the MG ammo has a positive expected value in an ordinary game since it doesn't raise the overall chance of explosion much (you're not going to dump the missile ammo) and the other CT crits are also pretty devastating so the increase in risk to the mech is low.
So there is a name for almost every hand of poker I have ever played? Neat.
Sure you should keep your missile ammo. But playing ammo-heavy mechs like the crusader is a bad idea in the first place. Walking bombs are a bad time. Having *so much* ammo in *so many* locations is just asking for your mech to go boom. Energy boats are great.
On a side note, I thought this video was going to be about bluffing lol. Playing double blind, or being sneaky and switching directions like you talked about in your one vid... playing mind games with your opoonent can be very fun and win you games.
Also inferno SRMs. Am I gonna heat you up this turn, or go for the pachinko machine of missile dakka?
Yeah I wouldn't be caught dead in a 3R except in a very RPG centric game
@@TrailblazerBT Agreed. If I get it on a RAT ok, but it aint goin in my list otherwise lol. I have a video on walking bombs... The crusader definitely qualifies lol.