"What Are Alliances Good For?" with Brandon Fogel (vWDC Masterclass)

02:03 Intro: “What are Alliances Good For?”

03:19 Is a good ally a good person who never thinks of stabbing?

06:20 Background knowledge: Unit Efficiency and Strategic Efficiency

09:39 A good ally treats you as a genuine partner and not merely as a means to an end

22:23 Your primary ally is always yourself

32:16 Life lessons from Diplomacy

34:52 Q&A: Can alliance value be calculated?

41:38 Q&A: What about undermining your own alliance or kicking someone out of a three-way alliance?

44:15 Clarification on treating an ally as more than a means to an end, and further philosophy. 

After this, the discussion became open ended.

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