Do you ever intentionally lose games even if the rest of your group isn't quite in your league?
There are 4-6 people in our regular group (m'y wife and I are polyamorous...), but realistically, if everyone played to win every time, I would win 108% of the time.
So sometimes, I will intentionally try a ridiculous strategy, like not watching a 100 hour video on the recent meta, or even playing with the color that has the ugliest minis. The goal of our game night is that I have a good time, and drinking the other players bitter tears of frustration is really what I'm after.
Of course I'm so subtile they don't suspect a thing and it's not like I'm throwing the game. I'm still greatly superior to all these people who don't even know what a bgg weight rating is and I still win, always.
I'm curious how other, less talented groups handle it...
u/benthefry — 4 days ago