De-Clawing the Lion

By Dobbler, in 1. AGoT General Discussion

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Twn2dn said:

Since Fleeing isn't a guaranteed "silver bullet" against Lanni, I don't think it's worth playing, unless you think at least half the match ups you play will be against Lanni. The stats are pretty miserable; so while you play a 3-0-1 that has little effect, the opponent will play his 3-1-1 and kneel two of your guys, then choose to play second and kneel the strongest guys you play that marshalling with Castellan.

fleeing is 3-3-1 so it has a bit of an advantage over the 3 'heavy hitters' in the city cycle

Twn2dn said:

The bottom line with Fleeing is that you really need to pair it up with other location removal to make it most effective (a one-two punch), but since most houses can't effectively play PoW, you still can't take care of shadows locations. And houses that can play PoW probably don't need/want to play Fleeing, since it's stats are so bad (and those houses...GJ/Stark typically want to play first and/or with high claim).

yup, couldn't agree more with this. In GJ I used to go valar->fleeing (use my iron mines first...). Now w/ price of war I go Valar->Fear of Winter. I find myself flipping fleeing in bara as my third power of blood. What i mean is that if they haven't played valar the first 2 flips I'll flip fleeing (and pray for saves) to at least make valar a little more painful (or perhaps maximize fleeing) if you are losing income/draw/effects too. I like fleeing and its always my 7th or 8th plot and its much much better then attack from the sea the only other option in plots that I can think of right now.