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[Davio]

Only 7 more cards to go in Twilight Strategy.  This feels somewhat sad.  It is amazing how much easier it is to write analyses of cards that don't interact with each other much.

What comes after TS?  RaStrategy?  RFTGStrategy?  ChutesAndLaddersStrategy?

I could see RTFGStrategy having an audience.

Living card game strategies? LotR, Star Wars, Game of Thrones....

First article: Take Eowyn. 

[Brando Commando]

I guess I vote RftGstrategy, too. I've played 30+ games against the Keldon (sp?) AI, and maybe 15 games IRL. After the last RftG game, my friend and I were contemplating how much strategy matters -- as he said, maybe we can't see the strategy because we both suck at the game. But I've read strategy articles from rrenaud around the web, and I feel like I'm doing a decent job strategizing...but RftG feels much more chancy than Dominion. 

To be more specific, it seems like it's very hard to win unless your strategy happens to work well with whatever 6-cost development cards come your way. In the meantime, good tactics can help, but it just seems not very useful to make up any sort of overarching plan (as you might do in Dominion).

Is the game just all tactical, or what?

Thoughts? I guess this should be in other board games but it seems apropos.

[heron]

I think that the clear choice is innovationstrategy.com, as that game I can play on isotropic! 

[DStu]

Although your suggestion on what to do next did make me think, really bad strategy blog ideas:
TicTacToeStrategy

... and already done

[Brando Commando]

Although your suggestion on what to do next did make me think, really bad strategy blog ideas:
TicTacToeStrategy

... and already done

Somebody should just buy the domain name and link it there. That's too cool.

Edit: At least for Tic Tac Toe nobody can say, "Depends on the board."

[Dsell]

I got Android: Netrunner in the mail a couple days ago and finally got around to playing it tonight (well, teaching it to two friends and helping them play) and wow, what a phenomenal game.

All I can say is Netrunnerstrategy.com is going to happen if it hasn't already, and I'd love to see theory and rrenaud (and Frisk?) or other members from this site at the helm. It might be difficult since there are so many new cards so often, but there is most certainly strategy to be discussed.

[qmech]

Edit: At least for Tic Tac Toe nobody can say, "Depends on the board."

But it does depend on the board!  n-in-a-row tic-tac-toe in d dimensions is a draw for small d, and a win for d sufficiently large.

Challenge: show that no version of tic-tac-toe can be a second player win.

[blueblimp]

Challenge: show that no version of tic-tac-toe can be a second player win.

Solution:

Suppose p2 has a winning strategy.

Observe that having an additional square filled in can only cause you to win or tie, not cause the other player to win, because it doesn't affect the winning condition of the other player. So p1 can on turn 1 make an arbitrary initial dummy move, then on turn 2 an onwards, follow p2's winning strategy, ignoring the dummy move. If the strategy ever calls for p1 to play on the square with the dummy move, instead make a dummy move somewhere else arbitrarily.

Thus, under the supposition that p2 has a winning strategy, p1 has a strategy that guarantees either a win or a tie, a contradiction. So p2 has no winning strategy.