There are lots of aspects to a position, and you will be ahead on some of them and behind on others. This sort of thinking is rampant in Eclipse, see (for example), the strategy guide on Virtual Fleets.Īnother chess thought I’ve been coming back to is Jeremy Silman’s discussion of Imbalances.
But being flexible means you just build up a solid position and then find a point of weakness (either a player’s position, or a few aliens, a great technology) and then pounce. Even if you romp all over the board for the first five turns, you will likely be beaten back. But you certainly don’t want to attack everyone. In Eclipse, you often want to be in a position to attack everyone.
The threat is mightier than the execution. When thinking about Eclipse, a chess aphorism kept popping into my head. As always, my random thoughts about Eclipse.
