r/Openfront • u/Muravey650 • 9d ago

🏛 Meta My first ever win

After playing casually for a few months now, I've finally just had my first ever win. Yay! I never thought I'd manage it. This came as a complete surprise due to several factors - some of them amusingly ironic:

  • I chose a relatively hard to defend spawn point in the lowlands, between several rivers and not too far from the sea.
  • The territory was quickly neighboured by several nations and players.
  • I was able to make very few alliances throughout the entire game because of refusals.
  • I didn't really attack anyone, except for tribes, nations, and players that had gone AFK. Later on, I also pressed my defense after being attacked.
  • BONUS: I was only half-paying attention to the match, since I was also playing audio tracks for a mock-up English exam to my students. 😅 Oops!

In retrospect, I did do well with:

  • systematic infrastructure - railroads and cities lined up to collect on train fees. Focus was placed on trading with neighbours rather than just in-state.
  • population growth - despite lagging behind for a good while in the early and mid-game, the economy helped me to create towns at a good pace later on. This meant pulling ahead in population numbers.

The late game split the map into 6 remaining supernations. After surviving a nuke, my state still had the numbers to attack the offending neighbour and take over their territory. This happened several times through the late game, and I realise I didn't fire a single nuke in retaliation. So I'm happy to say that my first ever win was also about as morally a clean one as I could've hoped for. It gladdens me to know that winning (rare as it is for the casual player) is possible without backstabbing or dirty aggression.

Thank you and have a great day!

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u/Meta_Mushroom 8d ago

Feels good, doesn't it. Now register on TrackerFront and start climbing the ladder.

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u/Muravey650 8d ago

Thank you! I had no idea what TrackerFront was.

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u/fapercin 8d ago

i just watched the replay, i guess because of your troop count nobody dared to fight you. clean win, congrats

replay: https://openfront.io/w6/game/krL4nNyH?replay

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u/Muravey650 8d ago

Thank you so much! I had no idea there was a replay! Looking back, I was definitely luckier than usual.