You guys seem to miss the key characteristic here. Information.
Warlight is at all similar to chess only with no fog, 0% luck, straight round. Chess is a compleat information game. Any game that gives you less then all required information is not like chess.
Warlight is never similar to poker. You don't have stakes. Can't play poker without stakes. Poker is largely based on psychology. Luck is irrelevant. Game theory is only important as far as it allows you to know wheter your hand is good or bad. Psychology is the key aspect.
WL would be like poker with heavy fog, random distribution settings. It would have to have some kind of stakes though. Can't bluff without stakes.
As I said earlier, in most cases Warlight is like bridge. It is a deduced information game.
Is Warlight more like Chess or more like Poker?: 1/3/2013 09:22:06
Artham, aren't the stakes bonuses, territories and stacks?
It always rings false for me when people describe chess as complete information. A player does not necessarily know the lines his opponent is strong in, or has prepared, or has a surprise weapon or whether theyre sleepy today, so games with a lot of calculations will lead to an easier victory.
Sounds like I should learn to play bridge. To the old folks home!
Is Warlight more like Chess or more like Poker?: 1/3/2013 09:43:59
Bonuses, territories and stacks aren't stakes. They don't matter after the game is ended. Stakes need to give a motivation to surrender. You have no such motivation in warlight (other then wasteing time).
Is Warlight more like Chess or more like Poker?: 1/3/2013 10:25:07
Chess is closer to wl in terms of tha games (not the play), bc when you in poker allways play for yourself you can in wl and chess play on teams (even or uneven)play ffa and play 1v1.
Is Warlight more like Chess or more like Poker?: 1/3/2013 22:29:17