Georgia 2x Army Cap

This is effectively a completely different game mode and requires a different way of thinking about deployment and leftovers.

General Idea

There is an army cap, which is set at 2x a player's income. This means that players have to be very careful about where they let stacks end up. The other thing that changes is that instead of conserving leftovers, players actively want to discard them, since they count towards the cap and may constrain deployment of armies in more useful places the subsequent turn.

Cards

Reinforcement for +5 in 4 pieces (Starts with 4 pieces)
Gift (starts with 1, but don't receive any more)
Bomb in 6 pieces (starts with 2 pieces)
Blockade for 200% (Starts with 30 cards)

Initial Distribution
The distribution is set by random wastelands of 2 over random cites. This is so that it's not possible to have an entire bonus in-distribution, but the 36 wastelands reduce the number of pickable spots so that the template has variety each time.

Players pick 5 starts, and each start has only 1 army, so you have maximal flexibility on turn 1. With 5 starts, 5 base income, and a +5 card, you start with 10 armies to deploy on turn 1.

Notes

The blockade card is so that players can get rid of territories (and armies) that they don't want to help stay under the cap. It's at 200%, so that a blockade of 1 army is indistinguishable from a regular neutral. The bomb makes big stacks an even bigger liability than they already were, since in addition to limiting deployment on the next turn (if you're at the cap) they are targets for bombs. The gift is a very situational card, but it can be used to give an opponent a large stack in a useless location, limiting their deployment.

All bonuses are valued at N-1 where N is the # of territories, so that bigger (and less defensible) bonuses are more valuable.

Template

https://www.warlight.net/MultiPlayer?TemplateID=757105

Sample games

https://www.warlight.net/MultiPlayer?GameID=9937959

https://www.warlight.net/MultiPlayer?GameID=9938247

https://www.warlight.net/MultiPlayer?GameID=9951777

Is there still going to be a stream at 6pm CET?

Yes there will! Szeweningen and gnuffone will commentate. Me probably too

where to search for this transmission?

Looking forward to it :)

It will be advertised on the top of the warlight page. Right from the help tab.

4 hours 19 minutes from now.

Sorry if that is a stupid question but I have never attended such event before... and the question is: Will that streaming be recorded somehow? In other words - will it be possible to view it later or is it just one time entity?

Most likely, last few streamed things ran by szeweningen were recorded.

Edited 11/30/2015 14:44:33

Oh, it's tonight? Awesome! :D

It will be recorded, but if you watch it live, you can chat with other viewers and the streamers on Twitch.

We will start in roughly 90 minutes. Possible guest commentators include Gnuffone, Fizzer, masters of desasters and Dead, Lolowut and maybe more!

After the stream I'll export the recording to youtube and I'll give a link on the forum. It takes ~12-24 hours for the whole video to process in high quality.

http://www.twitch.tv/szeweningen

We're going to do some pre-stream testing in 30 minutes and we start in 1 hour.

Greece LLFD by benjamin

MoD 8/10
szeweningen 7/10
Sephiroth 7.5/10
Gnuffone 9/10

Army Cap by Beren

MoD 9/10
Sephiroth 8/10
szeweningen 7/10
Gnuffone 6/10

British Raj by Nackickwind

MoD 4/10
Sephiroth 5/10
szeweningen 5/10

Cold served and deserved by Glamorous

Gnuffone 3/10
MoD 3/10
Sephiroth 3/10
szeweningen 4/10

Tactical Phillipines by Glamorous

MoD 6/10
Sephiroth 6.5
Gnuffone 7/10
szeweningen 6/10

Macedonia by Nackickwind
MoD 6/10
Sephiroth 4/10
Gnuffone 3/10
szeweningen 4/10

New York Small by Master Turtle

MoD 5/10
Gnuffone 6/10
Sephiroth 5/10
szeweningen 5/10

Pure luck Strategic 1v1 by wct
Sephiroth 2/10
Gnuffone 1/10
szeweningen 1/10

Bermuda by Nanaimo
Gnuffone 4.5/10
MoD 4/10
Sephiroth 3.5/10
szeweningen 4/10

Rennaissance Italy by Sułtan Kosmitów
MoD 6/10
Gnuffone 7/10
Sephiroth 6/10
szeweningen 6/10

French Brawl by Master of the Dead
MoD 9/10
Sephiroth 7/10
Gnuffone 9/10
szeweningen 8/10

Snow Mountains MA by Lolowut
MoD 7.5/10
Sephiroth 8/10
Gnuffone 7/10
szeweningen 7/10

RDR Cards by Legi
MoD 5/10
Sephiroth 5/10
Gnuffone 6/10
szeweningen 6/10

1v1 Succession Wars by ChrisCMU
MoD 5/10
Sephiroth 5/10
Gnuffone 1.5/10
szeweningen 0.5/10

Choose your card by skull
MoD 4/10
Sephiroth 6/10
Gnuffone 6/10
szeweningen 6/10

Random manual distribution by Kain
Removed upon template maker's request

BenIndia by Beren
Sephiroth 7/10
Gnuffone 6.5/10
szeweningen 5.5/10

Hexagonal Fun Times FleeceMaster
Sephiroth 1/10
Gnuffone 2/10
szeweningen 3/10

EarthSea 1v1
Sephiroth 8/10
Gnuffone 9/10
szeweningen 7/10
MoD 9/10

Edited 12/1/2015 07:18:41

Sorry guys, but the whole thing was a kind of farse - I have provided whole instruction for my template and none of you had red it (instructin was also embeded into template) and then you had no idea what was the maechanic of it and how to play it.... there was even a game example if you were too lazy to read this all ... ?? not very professionall and I wasted a lot of my time .. :/


please delate my scores - I'd prefer not to be publicly ashamed only becouse of your unprofessional attitude

Edited 11/30/2015 21:06:37

BenIndia by Beren

:P

I did not watch the stream, so can someone tell me about the following ratings? A gap from 1/0.5 to 5 is a lot in my mind.

Random manual distribution by Kain
Sephiroth 2/10
Gnuffone 1/10
szeweningen 5/10

1v1 Succession Wars by ChrisCMU
MoD 5/10
Sephiroth 5/10
Gnuffone 1.5/10
szeweningen 0.5/10

I didn't see the one by Chris, but what I gathered from the one by Kain was the following:

Sze liked the strategic value of the map, and thinks it's not too terrible.

The others were unnerved by the sanction cards, ability to hold 0 cards, and a -5 bonus that could be randomly distributed to anyone. Sze still saw some more strategic value to it though.

It wont be assigned to players - it was random warlords distribution.

Edited 11/30/2015 20:40:40

This was a farce, they didn't even look at my sample game until I kicked up a fuss in chat, and even then they never gave it proper thought, and they didn't even check the randomised version.

They didn't even actually read my post...