DAG Battles: Setting Points Levels

Blathergut · Post by **Blathergut** » Sun May 02, 2010 5:30 pm

It seems that you can't set a DAG battle for say, 400pts and have both sides use less. It seems one side has to be at the amount set. Is this the case for sure? Has anyone actually run a DAG game where both sides were at less than the stated size for the battle?

TheGrayMouser · Post by **TheGrayMouser** » Sun May 02, 2010 7:16 pm

Hey Blath, in that test battle we did (the one you crushed me in)

I believe you issued the 400 point challenge Do you remember if you bought the full 400?

Blathergut · Post by **Blathergut** » Sun May 02, 2010 7:36 pm

might have...not sure...will keep an eye out for this..i'll make sure i use less than the max and see if the other dude does as well

ianiow · Post by **ianiow** » Sun May 02, 2010 7:44 pm

This is my understanding:-

I believe that BOTH armies must have been created with the same 'maximum' points total (even if one or both armies doesnt use the full points).

eg Romans create a 350/400 army and post a challenge. The Seleucids must now accept the challenge with an army created under 400 points, whether they have the full 400 or 250 or 399 it doesnt matter, so long as that army was created for a 400 point game.

RyanDG · Post by **RyanDG** » Sun May 02, 2010 7:45 pm

Were you guys making sure that you saved them at the higher point value? Ie, say you wanted to use 400 out of a possible 600 points. Instead of saving it as a 400 point army, you save it as a 600 point army and simply do not take the remaining 200 points? I know the person who accepts the challenge can use any point value for their army as long as it is below the army value set by the person who puts out the challenge, but the person who sets the challenge determines the value of the challenge and if their opponent needs to have more points then them will need to save their 400 point army as a 600 point army (without taking all the points) in order for the challenge to work out right.

Blathergut · Post by **Blathergut** » Sun May 02, 2010 7:49 pm

ya...that might have been it dead...

TheGrayMouser · Post by **TheGrayMouser** » Sun May 02, 2010 7:55 pm

RyanDG wrote:Were you guys making sure that you saved them at the higher point value? Ie, say you wanted to use 400 out of a possible 600 points. Instead of saving it as a 400 point army, you save it as a 600 point army and simply do not take the remaining 200 points? I know the person who accepts the challenge can use any point value for their army as long as it is below the army value set by the person who puts out the challenge, but the person who sets the challenge determines the value of the challenge and if their opponent needs to have more points then them will need to save their 400 point army as a 600 point army (without taking all the points) in order for the challenge to work out right.

I think this is the problem they might be having, unlike us veterans of the LW campaign