This is the fourth Companions Cup.
Team captains please confirm your willingness to lead your armies to glory/ignominy (delete as applicable) and determine your commanders for the forthcoming campaign. You can keep the same team or draft in new blood whichever you decide is best.
Reminder of rules, new armies and terrain
This will be a team event with teams representing 4 world regions; British Isles (UK & Ireland), Europe (excluding British Isles), North America (US & Canada) and Rest of World (all other places). .
Tournament Format
For a change if it is acceptable all teams will play against each other, hopefully this will make the final games even more exciting.
As before there will be a random draw to decide which teams are home and away
Teams, Captains and Selection
The teams;
Hannibal (representing British Isles) will be captained by Triarius
Caesar (representing North America) will be captained by Batesmotel
Pyrrhus (representing Europe) will be captained by Hidde
Alexander (representing RoW) will be captained by Massina_NZ
Each team will consist of 5 players.
The captain of each team;
- will select players for the team, whether they do this based on LoEG position, their knowledge, first-come requests, etc. is up to them.
The following forum document
viewtopic.php?p=191294#191294 will be used to determine a player's location and eligibility for a team. So, if you want to be considered for this event then please update the document!
- will determine which army each of his players commands.
- will have some influence regarding which armies fight each other (more later)
- may want to give guidance regarding army composition and tactics
Armies, Points and Terrain
The 5 armies for this tournament will be 600 points and are;
- Alexandrian Macedonian ONLY (not later Alex Mac)
- Thracian ONLY (not Thracian Client)
- Skythian
- Later Achaeminiad ONLY (not darius or bessos)
- Classical Indian NOT (not mauryan or Gupta)
ALL ALLIES CAN BE USED
The terrain (with match number) for this tournament are;
1. Very Crowded
2. Crowded
3. Mixed
4. Open
5. Very Open
Determination of Matches
The match-up of all 5 armies will be determined before any battles begin. The process for doing this is as follows;
- The captain of the away team will nominate an army to fight match number 1.
- After seeing the enemy army the captain of the home team will then nominate an army to fight match number 1. He will also propose an army to fight match 2.
- After seeing the enemy army the captain of the away team will then nominate an army to fight match number 2. He will also propose an army to fight match 3.
- After seeing the enemy army the captain of the home team will then nominate an army to fight match number 3. He will also propose an army to fight match 4.
- After seeing the enemy army the captain of the away team will then nominate an army to fight match number 4.
- Match 5 is determined by what's left.
N.B. A captain may not chose the same army for any match (i.e. civil war) unless it is the 5th match.
Both captains will then assign their players to the armies and PM them to me. I will publish them once I have received both selections.
AN EXAMPLE FROM PREVIOUS COMPANIONS CUP
Match 1 (Very Open): Hatran IanIOW vs TheGrayMouser Parthian(Saka Campaign)
Match 2 (Open): Early Armenian(Khosrov I) Triarius vs BatesMotel Bosporan(mid)
Match 3 (Mixed): Bosporan Steve-H8 vs Deeter Later Carthage(Africa)
Match 4 (Open): Later Carthage(Africa) Ericdoman1 vs Deadtorius Early Armenian(Khosrov I)
Match 5 (Very Open):Parthian(Saka Campaign) Morbio vs Blathergut Hatran
Players then create their respective 600 point armies.
Each home player creates his battle (with FoW and double moves on), PMs his opponent and fights the battle. Note: This relies on both players to select the same terrain for the battle!
The winner should publish the results on this forum.
Determination of Team Match Results
A win will gain a point, a draw half a point, no points for a loss.
A team wins if it gets 3 or more points in a match.
If both teams get 2.5 points then total team BP difference will count (total team BPs for minus total team BPs against).
If still a tie then the team with most BPs for... to encourage attacking play!
If still a tie then captains will play-off with 600 point Alexander Macedonian armies, repeated until a winner is found.
Administration
I will administer the tournament, which comprises of;
- The selection of armies for the tournament
- Decding upon the points used for the tournament
- The selection of 5 terrain compositions
- The random draw of all matches. This will determine home advantage too.
- The collection of army-player assignments and publishing of them
- Arbitration on any rule disputes (hopefully I've thought of all eventualities)
I hope you will all trust me to be impartial in the draw and not to abuse any information I may see regarding team selections OR we could find somebody completely neutral to administer this tournament
Initial draw to follow soon....
I'm not sure what is needed in terms of adjudication, the matches are decided by the captains, the players play them and the results decide the winner. I can't think of anything that needs someone to make a judgement, however if I've missed anything (it's been a while) then let me know. The only bit where a decision is needed is regarding which team is playing which team, and who is 'home' and who 'away'. I used a d6 (six sided dice) to determine that, so not an actual decision. If you want me to roll the dice let me know, but I fear I may delay things because I don't visit here daily now.
