DAG Game Turn Lengths???

Blathergut · Post by **Blathergut** » Sun Mar 21, 2010 2:06 am

Do DAG games have a certain turn length? 20? 16?

petergarnett · Post by **petergarnett** » Sun Mar 21, 2010 11:43 am

Not sure but I've played one to turn 19 before we drew.

arsan · Post by **arsan** » Sun Mar 21, 2010 11:52 am

Thats a good question! I will like to know the answer too
While playing, by the battle name you can see something like this (T16). At first i thiough it was the turns lenght (16 turns). But on the same battle, some turns latter i noticed its said (T28) so now i'm not so sure...
Maybe the turn length its not fixed in DAG battles, but can increase if the battle is still going on when the final turn approaches??
Don't know...

deeter · Post by **deeter** » Sun Mar 21, 2010 5:06 pm

Go to the victory screen. There you will find the game length. I too am curious what the T** thing indicates.

Deeter

Ironclad · Post by **Ironclad** » Sun Mar 21, 2010 10:19 pm

My 400/500 points battles are showing 26 turns duration.

I did wonder if the T(number) referred to the battlefield terrain version but a couple with the same number had different terrain.

CharlesRobinson · Post by **CharlesRobinson** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 2:10 am

I had one DAG Tie for time - It ended at the end of turn 25.

Ironclad · Post by **Ironclad** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 1:31 pm

It seems to be the case that a game time ends the turn before its stated duration. That would explain a 25 turn end for a 26 (DAG) duration or a 19 turn for a 20 turn (eg Carrhae) battle.

Blathergut · Post by **Blathergut** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 2:08 pm

But what determines game length? And how do you know the length of a particular game?

Ironclad · Post by **Ironclad** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 2:52 pm

Blathergut wrote:But what determines game length? And how do you know the length of a particular game?

The game length is chosen by the scenario or DAG battle designer. If you use the scenario builder its one of the entries you have to complete. Its shown at the bottom of the Victory Conditions screen.

rbodleyscott · Post by **rbodleyscott** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 2:56 pm

Ironclad wrote:
Blathergut wrote:But what determines game length? And how do you know the length of a particular game?
The game length is chosen by the scenario or DAG battle designer. If you use the scenario builder its one of the entries you have to complete. Its shown at the bottom of the Victory Conditions screen.

But this does not apply to DAG battles, so how is it determined? I had one (400 point DAG) game timed out at 16 turns, but others have gone to the mid 20s when both players were being very cautious.

Is it random or what?

petergarnett · Post by **petergarnett** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 3:04 pm

Based upon army size perhaps?

Ironclad · Post by **Ironclad** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 3:08 pm

rbodleyscott wrote:
Ironclad wrote:
Blathergut wrote:But what determines game length? And how do you know the length of a particular game?
The game length is chosen by the scenario or DAG battle designer. If you use the scenario builder its one of the entries you have to complete. Its shown at the bottom of the Victory Conditions screen.
But this does not apply to DAG battles, so how is it determined? I had one (400 point DAG) game timed out at 16 turns, but others have gone to the mid 20s when both players were being very cautious.

Is it random or what?

Interesting. I haven't experienced a DAG time out but on checking a number of my current DAG games - one 500 and the rest 400 - they all showed 26 turns duration, so I had assumed that was the standard selected for that size DAG battle and that in practice they would time out at 25.

rbodleyscott · Post by **rbodleyscott** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 3:09 pm

petergarnett wrote:Based upon army size perhaps?

All my games have been 400 points, so it seems unlikely.

deeter · Post by **deeter** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 4:29 pm

Just checked my exisitng DAG games which range from 400 through 800 points and they are all 26 turns, which seems excessive given that few DAG games last over 10 turns in my experience.

Deeter

TheGrayMouser · Post by **TheGrayMouser** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 7:56 pm

deeter wrote:Just checked my exisitng DAG games which range from 400 through 800 points and they are all 26 turns, which seems excessive given that few DAG games last over 10 turns in my experience.

Deeter

Hmm, I think most of mine last to the high teens to early 20's (except for one horrible disaster that ended on turn 5)

edit:
Ok now that Im home and looking at the las 15 DAG battles i see that I am totally wrong and most were completed in the 8-14 turn range... I swear they felt like they were much longer (maybe because i was losing

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Post by **IainMcNeil** » Tue Mar 23, 2010 10:52 am

I think it is 25 - we set it high enough not to be an issue for now. We may allow you to choose at some point.

rbodleyscott · Post by **rbodleyscott** » Tue Mar 23, 2010 10:54 am

iainmcneil wrote:I think it is 25 - we set it high enough not to be an issue for now. We may allow you to choose at some point.

So I am still in the dark as to why one of my DAG games ended as a draw on turn 16.

Blathergut · Post by **Blathergut** » Tue Mar 23, 2010 12:35 pm

rbodleyscott wrote:
iainmcneil wrote:I think it is 25 - we set it high enough not to be an issue for now. We may allow you to choose at some point.
So I am still in the dark as to why one of my DAG games ended as a draw on turn 16.

Your opponent wouldn't have resigned???

deeter · Post by **deeter** » Tue Mar 23, 2010 3:03 pm

Maybe you both broke on the same turn?

Deeter