Today it dawned on me: My brain has a massive colour logic deficit. I’m pretty sure that’s why I always sucked at chemistry. Before I started out on TWD Road to Survival I lived in the strong belief that my only problem was with numbers. Now it’s colours, too? I need help!
For the longest time of two or three days I played The Walking Dead like a woman – that is: COMPLETELY WRONG! I chose my team characters according to my personal likes and dislikes. I like his face – ok, lets make him team leader. This guy is slightly overweight – not sexy. Out he goes. It took me quite some time (and a few gold coins) to understand the value and MEANING of colours in that game and when I did – I suddenly found it hard to keep it in mind. Red beats blue – or was it green? Yellow? Highly illogical! To be honest I still can’t tell right from the top of my head what’s right without looking at the game card above. That’s why I sucked at chemistry, too. All those chemical combinations and reactions seemed like insane troll logic to me. I always made up my formulas in a creative-that-looks-good-to-me-fashion. I found them very attractive. Now I might have invented a few new elements that way, but it surely didn’t help my grade and drove my teacher to the edge of madness. I decided to give up chemistry for the sake of his mental health.
That said, and the problem isolated I was determined that I was not going to make the old mistakes over again. I can’t give up TWD, it’s as simple as that. And as I really have a hard time remebering the impact of blues on reds or greens or yellows, I surely had to learn it my way – which is the hard way. My strenght is in the visual memory. In that way I am like an elephant – only not so … grey. Actually you might say: „My Dear, but colours ARE visual.“ Believe me, THEY ARE NOT, mister. Colours are evil. Now, here are my simple rules:
Mac or Hershel or Diego are blue characters. I know that, because in my mind’s eye I can clearly see their picture with the tiny blue badge bottom right (or left, or top, never mind). Everytime they meet up with a Glenn or Carol, which are both yellow, they get beat the crap out of – so to speak. Now actually, the characters are described as „tough“, so my initial idea was: They must be strong. They surely look strong. And they have cool firearms. Hence I put three blue characters into my defense team and got the bill: Every two-star-idiot walking the earth raided me no problemo. The truth is simple: Blue guys can dish out, but once a yellow guy hits them, they are dust. They are only really good, when ALL the opponents are red. Aha!
The red guys – mostly women – are rare to get and they are real bitches. Whenever they dominate a team, I’m on the losing side. But I learned that Hershel or Diego can really hurt Margaret or any other red super-bitch, so the rule is pretty clear: Blue cant hurt red badly, so he’s needed on the team against a red opponent. The only problem is to protect the blue guys against the Glenns of this world. How? Kick Glenn-ass first. For that you will need a Christa-character, or – even better – two. She’s green and at a higher level she can be quite useful, but only if the other guy has not many reds on his team! Blonde short-haired Margaret can make brunette Christa look real stupid. So you see: To assemble the ideal team, you’ll have to know your enemy! And when you meet him, be sure to make the right moves. But that’s fighting tactics. Speaking of, I think my daily dose of zombie mayhem is due.
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