Anyone who says poker, or any card game for that matter

Snap. Patience (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beggar-My-Neighbour).

Fine, any adult card game such as Hearts, Whist, Canasta, Cribbage etc.

Adults can play snap :(

Aye, and adults can watch My Little Pony and play with GI Joes. Doesn't mean they are adults shows or toys.

Warlight could be considered more like poker, because poker requires knowledge of the game and when to take risks, but Poker is based upon a lot of luck in the get go because you have to play the cards you receive.
Chess however is different because you start in the same position every time and you have to know what your doing and how your going to do it.
I would say both have legitimate reasons that Warlight is like them but i conclude that Warlight is more like chess

Um, it's called My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Get it right, Dick.

Poker is based upon a lot of luck in the get go because you have to play the cards you receive.

This may be true for a lot of (weaker) players. But the good players don't play the cards but the player.

I would say it is the most like RISK: The Game of Global Domination

I think it's most like Beyblades.

I will say more like poker because in chess you have the starts predetermined you can't change the starts of the pieces at the beginning even auto pick playing 2 different games with same settings with auto you will not get same however in poker your decks always change.

I'd say on standard settings Warlight is 60% Poker, 35% Chess and 5% Snakes and Ladders! Where did I get those numbers? I plucked from the clouds in the sky.

from the point of view of the influence of skill i'd say definitely chess, since someone good can beat a noob 100%, in poker it's probably 80-90% short term, while in warlight it's closer to 95%+

i don't know poker enough to say much, but i think a chess VS go comparison could be interesting as well, since it's very clearly a mix of both strategies: gaining territory and defeating enemy's material armies

I think it's more like Poker. Poker players get laid a lot, just like Warlighters, unlike Chess Players.

It's like new chess.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV1bpMamCtY

^-- A good example of such.

Well, to me is more chess, I still find the player much more in control of the game, and luck plays big part, but not nearly as big as poker.

Choosing your bonus is like choosing what cards you want to play, and you dont have this chance in poker.
If played correctly and with a proper low-risk strategy, luck can influence the game to the end right way (but only like 5 to 10% of the time), but the rest of time luck will decide only the results of a few armies.

I dont care for playing first or playing last, because all this 50% chance situations needs to be taken into account when planning, so you cant complain about loosing first order for example, because your plan had 50% chance of failing.

Show me a game where luck completely turns a winning game around that i will make warlight into more like a poker game.
But the majority of the comebacks happens through awesome predictions of players to spot minor chances, and the luck in the end means knowing what your opponent will do, meaning it is skill.


To me like 85% chess (or any other non-luck-dice-card game) and 15% poker (or any other luck-card-dice game).

Also, playing first or last is like having the advantage of being white, and have the same piece.
In the game of Go, they can even grade this advantage, with what they call Komi, that is points delivered to the player that plays last, because of playing last.
Since warlight have first movers and late movers every turn, it evens out pretty quickly, to the point that you should realize how to play both possible scenarios.

75% luck and auto distribution is absolutely closer to Poker than Chess. 0% luck (straight round) and manual distribution puts it a lot closer to Chess.

To make this a more informative post, here are the Warlight characteristics that I think are similar to Poker:

1. Reading opponents and predicting moves (much more similar to Poker than Chess)
2. No perfect knowledge of starting locations for yourself or your opponent(s)
3. Bluffing/Tricks
4. Hidden strategies (fog)

There are more, but I think that covers the major ones.

Similarly with Chess:

1. Better players can win nearly every time
2. Bad players almost never win championships
3. Both players can know their opponent's positions and the game outcome can still change
4. Each match is independent of previous matches outcomes (starting positions are not influenced by stack size, for instance)

Obviously different settings can influence any of these factors, like playing with different levels of luck or fog. Warlight will never quite reach Poker or Chess, but can add or remove influences from either game. That's why I personally find Warlight to be vastly superior to either of those games. Also, Warlight adds things like diplomacy which do not really exist in Chess or Poker, not to mention team games, FFA, and so on.

poker is all based on statistics and game theory, similar to wl

with fixed 75% luck it is like poker

with luck 16% or lower it is chess

Actually neither. It's most like bridge.

You're all wrong. It's MORE like Risk. Duh.