(and here's why)
I’m going to let you all in on a little secret.
Productivity will only get you so far in Heroscape. You need to be at a certain level (get 3 or 4 attacks per turn with a decent amount of dice) to win games, or place in the top 50% in a tournament. But if you want to win close games, or place in the top 25% repeatedly, you have to play efficiently.
But what does that mean? If we look at what wikipedia has to say about
Economic Efficiency, I think the part of the definition I like the best is “More output cannot be obtained without increasing the number of inputs.” If I’m talking about
order marker efficiency, the number of inputs refers merely to the number of
order markers. Get the most output out of your order markers.
So, to play efficiently, the first step is to put your order markers where they’ll create the most output, i.e. be more productive. [For more on how to place OM’s efficiently, I recommend UPC’s
article]....