There Can Be Only One! - Tournament Finished!

[Aetius39]

As Alexander, King of Macedon, gets ready to embark on his wars of conquest, many men flock to his banner. Although they are all fighting for him, secretly some covet higher offices, a few even dreaming of the day the king dies and they can assume power...

This tournament ideally has 16 people, 2 to a team, with 8 teams initially. You play one of Alexander the Great's warriors fighting in his battles. You strive to continuously improve your rank with promotion, although initially you must aid/get aided by a rival. If you are victorious, you will gain higher promotions; fail and you disappear into obscurity.

Each team of 2 people play a mirror game against another team, BUT each person only plays 1 of the mirror games.

Example: In the first battle "Greek Subjugation" Team 1 has players A and B; Team 2 has players C and D. There is 1 mirror match (2 games to be played total). Team 1 decides player A will use the Macedonians in the 1st mirror match game, and player B uses the Greeks in the 2nd match game. Team 2 decides player D will play Greeks in the 1st mirror match game, and player C will use the Macedonians in the 2nd match game. So altogether the first match game has A against D, and second match has B against C.


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We will use the standard point scoring in FoG 2 tournament battles. If you win a battle you get 60 points plus how much of a percentage you won by. Losers gets how many casualties they inflicted.

For example: In the 1st battle, Team 1 player A beats player D 61-36, and in the 2nd battle player C wins against player B 40-15.

Team 1 - 1st battle 60 + 25 = 85 points 2nd battle 15 points total for both battles = 100 points
Team 2 - 1st battle 36 points 2nd battle 60 + 25 = 85 points total for both battles = 96 points

There are 8 groups of 2 starting the tournament, but after every round the 2 groups with the lowest total points from the battle will be deemed unworthy of promotion and released from duty (knocked out of tournament)!
So, you have to work together (at least in theory) with your partner a bit. Decide who wants to be which side, ask for advice, be discreet and just fight, scream about rng rolls; however you and your partner want to go about it!
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People will be paired the first 4 rounds. In the final battle, Alexander has died and the last 2 generals fight it out for the empire!

Teams will be arranged according to DL standings (top 8 paired with lower 8/people with no number).


The 5 battles are divided into 5 rounds, like this:


1. Greek Subjugation (Philip's death has Greece in an uprising) 8 teams of 2

Armies: Macedonia 355 BC vs. Greek 460 BC
Rank: Lochagos

2. Balkan Campaign (Thracian revolt) 6 teams of 2

Armies: Macedonia 355 w/ Greek allies vs. Thracian (Triballi) 350 BC
Rank: Strategos

3. Gaugamela (Defeat of Persia) 4 teams of 2

Armies: Macedonia 355 vs. Persian 419 BC
Rank: Phalangiarch

4. Hydaspes (Invasion of India) 2 teams of 2

Armies: Macedonia 355 vs. Indian 500 BC
Rank: Ilarch

5. Ipsos (Civil War) (Fight for the empire after Alexander's death) 1 vs 1 (last 2 players left fight it out!)

Armies: Antigonid 320 vs. Lysimachid 320 w/ Seleucid 302 OR Seleucid 302 w/ Lysimachid 320
Rank: Basileus


Battles will be "open battle", large (1600) and wide. Maps will be potluck.


Sign up is open until we have 16 worthy men!


Generals so far:

1. Aetius39
2. Kronenblatt
3. TomoeGozen
4. Captainwaltersavage
5. Karvon
6. schmolywar
7. rs2excelsior
8. Stew101
9. olin0111
10. tyronec
11. snooky51
12. SawyerK
13. Challenge1
14. deeter
15. MarcoCato75
16. carpenkm


We have the number of people we needed, so will start the first round of the tourney within a day, once I team up everyone according to DL ratings.



*Big thanks to Kronenblatt for helping me out on my first tournament attempt!^

[kronenblatt]

I'm in, of course!

[Aetius39]

I'm in, of course!

Great!^^

[Aetius39]

By the way, anyone interested in this tournament but needs more information/clearer rules/etc. please pm or post here. I'm trying to work out the kinks and make this as good as possible, and of course all questions/suggestions/etc. are welcome!

[TomoeGozen]

Yes please!

[Aetius39]

Yes please!

Welcome!^^

[Captainwaltersavage]

Worth a try though i don't think i have much particular expertise with any of the armies listed.

[kronenblatt]

... i don't think i have much particular expertise with any of the armies listed...

Good good...

[Aetius39]

Worth a try though i don't think i have much particular expertise with any of the armies listed.

Glad you joined!^^ If you want, we could play a regular game with two of the armies being used; set one up or let me know if you want to!

[Karvon]

Like the period, so you can count me in.

Karvon

[Aetius39]

Like the period, so you can count me in.

Karvon

Great to have you!

[schmolywar]

In

[Aetius39]

In

Fantastic!

[Stew101]

Hi Aetius,

as per my PM, you can provisionally count me in, I'd like to take part.

Stew

[Aetius39]

Hi Aetius,

as per my PM, you can provisionally count me in, I'd like to take part.

Stew

Sure, welcome!

[rs2excelsior]

Pikes are fun, I'll give it a go!

I do have one question - these won't be proper "mirror" matches, will they, since mirror matches automatically are between the same opponents? i.e. the two pairs will be on different randomly generated maps?

[Aetius39]

Pikes are fun, I'll give it a go!

I do have one question - these won't be proper "mirror" matches, will they, since mirror matches automatically are between the same opponents? i.e. the two pairs will be on different randomly generated maps?

Yes, they are not "proper" in that each person only plays one of the games. Each team member plays one of the matches, and yes, they are on different maps. Also, welcome!^^

[rs2excelsior]

Yes, they are not "proper" in that each person only plays one of the games. Each team member plays one of the matches, and yes, they are on different maps. Also, welcome!^^

Sounds good! Wanted to make sure there wasn’t a way to set up a mirror match with two different sets of players that I wasn’t aware of, haha

[tyronec]

Count me in.

[Aetius39]

Count me in.

Fantastic, welcome!^^