TYME II: Concluded

[kronenblatt]

Rules regarding setting up and resolving battles (from second post of this thread):

• The attack takes the form of a Custom Battle as Remove the Head with Large (1600 FP) force size, Wide map size, and map type depending on the attacked province.
  • Players with allies available (i.e., controlling Germania, Pannonia, Dacia et Moesia, Syria et Arabia, and/or Cappadocia) first decide for each battle whether to use allies (and then which allies).
  • The defender thereafter decides the map type from among the alternatives for the attacked province in question (as specified in the specifications of provinces).
  • No map re-rolls will be made.
  • The defender is the one creating the challenge in the FoG2 Multiplayer Lobby (always password: TYME) and always with defender as Side B (in order for the other player to immediately be able to deploy and make first round when accepting the challenge).
  • Battle outcome, once resolved, is posted by the defender in a post of the tournament thread.

For foreign invasions (in this round , CaptainWalterSavage upon Germania) there are some differences to the rules when it comes to setting up battles:

• The player announcing the foreign invasion will decide which army list that the foreign invading force will use and will then also play the invading force as attacker during the Battle Resolution phase against the defender.

• Standard battle settings as set out above will apply (Custom Battle with Large (1600 FP) force size, Wide map size, and map type depending on the province-at-stake of the defender).

• Note however that for foreign invasions the following applies:
  • Open Battle is used (and not Remove the Head).
  • The attacker (and not the defender) decides the map type from among the alternatives for the invaded province in question.
  • In addition, the attacker (as side B) creates the challenge in the FoG2 Multiplayer Lobby.
  • The defender may not use allies when fighting a foreign invasion, nor may the Praetorian Guard be deployed in the battle.

[kronenblatt]

Civil War Battles
Aetius attacks kronenblatt in Italia with Sarmatian allies.
Olin attacks CaptainWalterSavage in Tarraconensis.
NikiforosFokas attacks Olin in Cyrenaica.

Foreign Invasion Battle
CaptainWalterSavage conducts a foreign invasion with Germanic Foot Tribes upon kronenblatt in Germania.

Players in bold above set up battles, as per rules.

Battles can be set up now to be played over the next three weeks and are thus to be concluded at latest on November 18. Enjoy everyone!

[olin0111]

• Players with allies available (i.e., controlling Germania, Pannonia, Dacia et Moesia, Syria et Arabia, and/or Cappadocia) first decide for each battle whether to use allies (and then which allies).

NikiforosFokas, let me know if you use any allies. According to the rules you can use either Arab or Armenian.

[NikiforosFokas]

To olin: No allies this time
To kronenblat: Oh oh for the provinces.

[kronenblatt]

To olin: No allies this time
To kronenblat: Oh oh for the provinces.

No probs. Excellent about allies too: attackers shall specify allies (if any) as part of their attack declarations. Because then defenders can easily and handily set up challenges without waiting for more information.

[olin0111]

To olin: No allies this time
To kronenblat: Oh oh for the provinces.

NikiforosFokas, the battle has been created, enjoy!
Password: Cyrenaica

[kronenblatt]

Civil War Battles
1. Aetius attacks kronenblatt in Italia with Sarmatian allies.
2. Olin attacks CaptainWalterSavage in Tarraconensis.
3. NikiforosFokas attacks Olin in Cyrenaica.

Foreign Invasion Battle
4. CaptainWalterSavage conducts a foreign invasion with Germanic Foot Tribes upon kronenblatt in Germania.

Players in bold above set up challenges, as per rules.Please PM your opponent when challenge has been set up.

Defenders report results in this thread once battles are concluded.

Battles are played over a three-week period and concluded at latest on November 18.

Enjoy everyone!

[kronenblatt]

Civil War Battles
1. Aetius attacks kronenblatt in Italia with Sarmatian allies.

Players in bold above set up challenges, as per rules.Please PM your opponent when challenge has been set up.

Challenge set up for Aetius39 with respect to the battle above, with Mediterranean Hilly as selected terrain. PM sent too. Enjoy!

[kronenblatt]

kronenblatt beat CaptainWalterSavage 43-7 in the latter's foreign invasion with Germanic Foot Tribes upon kronenblatt in Germania, resulting in kronenblatt having two attack declarations next round and CaptainWalterSavage zero.

[NikiforosFokas]

My Romans defeated olin0111's Romans, 62-47%.
Thanks for the game.

[olin0111]

Olin defeats CaptainWalterSavage 60-40.

The enemy forces smashed all of my cavalry on the left wing but I manged to break through in the center and roll both flanks from there. Despite enemy's commander inspiring speech his infantry was not encouraged enough to hold the line.

Many thanks for the game, CaptainWalterSavage.

[kronenblatt]

kronenblatt beat Aetius39 in Italia 57-30.

Through this, all four battles of round 1 are concluded, and after Province control changes phase, the political situation looks as follows:

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[kronenblatt]

I will also for next round introduce two changes/limitations to which armies and units a defender can use, whether in a Roman Civil War battle or in a Foreign Invasion, aiming at favouring attacking provinces:

A defender controlling Italia (I) can only deploy the Praetorian Guard unit if the battle takes place in Italia (I).
A defender can only choose the ally of a certain province if the battle takes place in that province.

The additions to the rules are highlighted in green below, and the second post of this thread is updated accordingly:

Units

• The Praetorian Guard unit may only be deployed for battle by the player controlling Italia (I).
  

• Furthermore, the Praetorian Guard unit may only be deployed in battles outside of Italia (I) if the player controlling Italia (I) is the attacker.

• This means that a defender controlling Italia (I) can only deploy the Praetorian Guard unit if the battle takes place in Italia (I).
  

• However, in the event of a foreign invasion not even the player controlling Italia (I) may deploy any Praetorian Guard units.

• Subject to the above, all units in the Roman 24 BC – 196 AD army list are freely available to deploy (other than the standard in-game limitations on numbers, etc.).

Allies

• Allies may only be selected by players controlling certain provinces:
  • Only the controllers of Germania (VIII) or Pannonia (III) may choose Germanic Foot Tribes 105 BC – 259 AD as allies.
  • Only the controllers of Germania (VIII) or Dacia et Moesia (VI) may choose Sarmatian 25 – 375 AD as allies.
  • Only the controller of Syria et Arabia (XV) may choose Arab 312 BC – 299 AD as allies.
  • Only the controller of Cappadocia (XIV) may choose Armenian 331 BC – 252 AD as allies.
    
  • However, a defender can only choose the ally of a certain province it controls if the battle takes place in that province.
    • Example: a defender controlling Syria et Arabia (XV) can only choose Arab 312 BC – 299 AD as allies if the battle takes place in Syria et Arabia (XV).
      
  • In these cases, it is always up to the player whether allies are in fact selected or not, and the player makes this decision for each individual battle.

• Notwithstanding the above, allies can never be selected in the event of a foreign invasion.

These changes become effective already in the next round (round 2).

[kronenblatt]

Summer, Year I (round II)

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Attack declarations phase
Order of declarations
1. NikiforosFokas (62%) (November 16).
2. olin0111 (60%) (November 17).
3. kronenblatt (57%) (November 18). Two attack declarations.
4. Aetius39 (30%) (November 19).

CaptainWalterSavage (40%) gets no attack declaration since losing it to kronenblatt as part of last round's Foreign invasion.

Once attack announcements have been made, battles are resolved simultaneously during a three-week period of Nov. 22 - Dec. 13 (see Battles in the rules).
(If all battles have been resolved before that, round III may commence earlier, but plan for first order of attack announcements on Dec. 15, and then we'll have a prolonged battle resolution phase for round III over Christmas and New Year holidays).

Please note that:

• Date (midnight CET (Rome) time) above indicates deadline, after which opportunity to announce attack is forfeited and the player below may announce attack.

• If a player above has announced an attack, then player next in line is free and is encouraged to announce attack to, up to his deadline, i.e., if the players before you have announced attacks, don't wait for your deadline to announce your own attacks but instead do so speedily so battles can start as soon as possible.

• A province already included as a province-at-stake in another player's attack this round may neither be attacked nor attacked from nor constitute a province-at-stake in the attack in question (unless it's a Foreign Invasion).

• Depending on the higher of the number of attacker's or defender's controlled provinces, more provinces are added to the provinces-at-stake for the battle.
  • 1-3 controlled provinces: 0 additional provinces-at-stake.
  • 4-5 controlled provinces: 1 additional province-at-stake from each of attacker and defender.
  • Thus, any attacks involving olin0111, NikiforosFokas or kronenblatt (whether as attacker or defender) will result in four provinces-at-stake, two for attacker and two for defender, since these two players currently control 4-5 provinces each.
  • Given how the map of the political situation currently looks, this will apply to all attacks this rounds.

Enjoy! And if you have any questions, please post in the thread for everyone to see question and answer.

Hypothetical example of how write an attack declaration:
Aetius39 attacks kronenblatt in Pannonia with Sarmatian allies.
Attacker stakes: Dalmatia and Moesia et Dacia
Defender stakes: Pannonia and Italia

[NikiforosFokas]

Hello,

I will attacke olins' XIII area using my Armenian Allies.
Provinces at stake (XIII and XII vs V and XVI).

[olin0111]

Olin attacks Kronenblatt in Italia (I)
Attacker stakes: Gallia (IV) and Tarraconensis (IX)
Defender stakes: Italia (I) and Pannonia (III)

[kronenblatt]

kronenblatt attacks CaptainWalterSavage in Britannia (X) with Sarmatian 25 – 375 AD allies.
Attacker stakes: Germania (VIII).
Defender stakes: Britannia (X).
(only one province staked for CaptainWalterSavage since he only controls one province, and only one for kronenblatt too since there are no non-staked provinces controlled by kronenblatt that neighbours Germania (VIII).)

kronenblatt attacks Aetius39 in Graecia et Thracia (VII) with Germanic Foot Tribes 105 BC – 259 AD allies.
Attacker stakes: Dalmatia (II), Dacia et Moesia (VI).
Defender stakes: Graecia et Thracia (VII), Asia (XI).

[kronenblatt]

Please note too that I've made the following changes (highlighted in bold green below) to the rules, one bug fix regarding proper allies, and one amendment regarding number of additional provinces-at-stake to make the latter battles with just 2 players left more decisive:

Allies

• Allies may only be selected by players controlling certain provinces:
  • Only the controllers of Germania (VIII) or Pannonia (III) may choose Germanic Foot Tribes 105 BC – 259 AD as allies.
  • Only the controllers of Pannonia (III) or Dacia et Moesia (VI) may choose Sarmatian 25 – 375 AD as allies.
    
    ...
    
    Attacks
    ...
  • Depending on the higher of the number of attacker's or defender's controlled provinces, more provinces are added to the provinces-at-stake for the battle:
    • 1-3 controlled provinces: 0 additional provinces-at-stake.
    • 4-5 controlled provinces: 1 additional province-at-stake from each of attacker and defender (i.e., 2 provinces-at-stake for each player, and 4 in total).
    • 6-7 controlled provinces: 2 additional provinces-at-stake from each of attacker and defender (i.e., 3 provinces-at-stake for each player, and 6 in total).
      
    • 8 controlled provinces: 3 additional provinces-at-stake from each of attacker and defender (i.e., 4 provinces-at-stake for each player, and 8 in total).
    • 9 controlled provinces: 4 additional provinces-at-stake from each of attacker and defender (i.e., 5 provinces-at-stake for each player, and 10 in total).
    • 10 controlled provinces: 5 additional provinces-at-stake from each of attacker and defender (i.e., 6 provinces-at-stake for each player, and 12 in total).
    • 11 controlled provinces: 6 additional provinces-at-stake from each of attacker and defender (i.e., 7 provinces-at-stake for each player, and 14 in total).
    • 12 controlled provinces: 7 additional provinces-at-stake from each of attacker and defender (i.e., 8 provinces-at-stake for each player, and 16 in total).
    • 13+ controlled provinces: 8 additional provinces-at-stake from each of attacker and defender (i.e., 9 provinces-at-stake for each player, and 18 in total).
      
    
    
    ...

[Aetius39]

Aetius roused the Parthian (250 BC - 225 AD) army to invade Cappadocia (NikiforosFokas)

Foreign invasion!

[Aetius39]

Kronenblatt's soon-to-be failed incursion into Greece is up and ready!