I played my first RoR game just the other day. I found a 3v3 Highland Gig Def game. Not knowing RoR beyond what I have read, I went with Hittite for comfort. I was grey, with my teammates being yellow (in the pocket) and green.
The other team was blue (next to me), red and brown. I Tool and Bronze raided my neighboring enemy's economy sufficiently to set him 20 minutes behind. Red and Brown were hitting my ally in the pocket pretty hard, so I diverted my efforts to his defense.
The game goes on and yellow and I continued our seesaw with the 3 opposing forces when we both realized that Green was not only "ok", but hadn't fired a shot yet. Fortunately, my yellow ally was a good player and fun to play with. He communicated well and was where he needed to be. Unfortunately, the Red and Brown players were both very good and Blue was good enough to become a threat again (Red did a great job building his advance camp with Blue to protect him).
After about 2 hours, we started losing ground in the attrition war, but Green was still silent as were his guns. Then he broke out with a token offensive that was stopped at his crossing. He resigned without a word or tribute.
Not long after that, Yellow had to go to bed (understandable). I held out for about another hour, but ran out of gold. Neither of my partners had built docks and Red destroyed his dock when I tried to establish commercial relations there.
Anyway, while the player who played Green is certainly one of those random partners that should be tattooed with warnings, I was over that when it become obvious we were playing a 2v3. The remarkable part was that the other team started talking smack when they had me down to 1v3. I didn't think they were worth pointing out that I had killed 670 of their units and the highest any one of them killed was under 350.
I feel your pain.
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After all, it's JustAGame[This message has been edited by JustAGame (edited 03-30-99).]