1st Annual Cellar Gaming TripleA Octathalon – Brackets and Win Posts

Has anyone seen dawgoneit?  It’s been a couple weeks now…. :(

@redrum – regarding the proposed “bump” rule, it would be that you would need to play a turn within 96 hours after your opponent plays one, so that 4 days can in reality be 8 days between turns.  I think that should be doable, especially when people can have vacation times in between as well as the fact that it would be 4 bumps (proposed) before a player is actually forfeited (once a bump is recorded, the player has another 96 hours).  I’m just looking for something reasonable to keep things moving along.

There would also be an “on the clock” for games that are holding up brackets, but this wouldn’t occur for a while.  In essence, the first round would go 3 months before being “on the clock” and the winner’s brackets would go in 2 month increments after that (the loser’s brackets would need to move a bit more quickly since there are more games, but there are also more byes that pass through those, so it probably balances out).

So, I see the point of Big World being something between Revised and G40.  That being said, the alternative would be Total World War (TWW 1941 is what you mean here, right redrum?), which looks completely awesome – it also looks like it would take 4 years to play a double-elimination bracket.  :-D

I like keeping TRS as a balance to NWO imho.

So, redrum, since I don’t think any of us has played TWW, are you saying that we would be able to finish the rounds within one calendar year?  If so, I’d definitely like to see what people prefer between Big World and TWW.

I count 18 sides plus 4 “neutral” sides.  But, does it flow pretty quickly with regard to the flipping of sides in a two-player game?

And I guess the real question is: which game would bring us more new players?

How do you guys like the Civil War game?  And, I assume the version titled “A House Divided” is the one that is play tested and balanced?

I haven’t had a chance to play it at all, but it looks more interesting than Big World on the surface at least.  We already have a full WWII game (WaW) along with the Europe and Pacific theaters so would it be better to add a different period to our warring efforts?  :-D  That would increase the number of periods to 5 (Roman, Napoleonic, Civil War, WWI, WWII).

I also want to check (redrum, I’m sure this is your department lol) whether or not the rail stations work properly and so forth – I know you told me before that this is one of the more finished maps, but just want to confirm that.

Okay, so this is how I am now seeing Total World War in terms of turns:

Germany (Axis) + 3 minors
Russia (Allies)
[Brazil - neutral]
Japan (Axis) + 2 minors
China (Allies)
[Spain - neutral]
Britain (Allies) + 6 minors
[Sweden - neutral]
Italy (Axis)
USA (Allies)
[Turkey - neutral]

So, in reality, there are only 6 player changes per round of the game.  This is actually less than World At War (which has 10), New World Order (8), The Rising Sun (8), 270 BC (6), and even Lord Of The Rings (12!).

In other words, although the game is more involved in certain aspects, the waiting between turns per round is actually less than our other games, so maybe these games wouldn’t take much longer than what we currently have.  If this is the case and I’m understanding that properly, then maybe this should be our 8th map?  I’m just worried about Civil War functioning and being play tested after my (very bad) experience with trying to get Red Sun Over China up and going….

So, if it wouldn’t take any longer than our other games, who’s for including Total World War: December 1941 as the 8th map (replacing Great War)?  Sorry to keep asking so much but I’d like to finalize these ASAP for the next tourney.  :)

(ugh, the  8-) is an “8”)

So, on the above list, as neutrals join one side or the other, it would not change the number of player changes with one exception: if Spain joined the Axis then there would be 8 player changes per round instead of 6.

@captain:

I would rather have Domination 1914 replace the Great War.

Domination 1914 No Man’s Land is already in, that one is replacing Total Ancient War.  :)

@redrum: since I think that it’s best to only change two games per tourney, let’s see if Total World War works – who’s up for a test game?  I should be able to get something started tomorrow if you or anyone else is interested… I do think that the way TWW is structured that tech should be on for this game.  [Hopefully we can get a feel for the first 4-5 turns to see if it is viable]

Options proposed:

check the boxes for Tech Development, Use Politics, and Choose AA Casualties ONLY (3 boxes total checked).  For the beginning options, I propose none be selected by Germany unless one of them helps balance the game (I so far haven’t been able to find better info on this on the TripleA site).

Cool Balladeer, if you want Axis go ahead and start with the options listed above (if you have any questions on setup let me know, but you basically set the options and then don’t pick anything special as Germany).  If you want allies just let me know and I’ll get this started later this morning!  When setting up, an AI should be used for the “Neutral” slots from my understanding.  I’ll let you write the startup manual on this one lmao.

TRS DizzKneeLand33 (Axis) wins over Entek (Allies)

http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=38321.0

NE DizzKneeLand33 (Carolingians) wins over Entek (Coalition)

http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=38328.0