Online Season 22 - Reverse Draft -- CONGRATS DOK!

[dok]

Online Heroscape Season 22

WINNERS REPORT GAMES HERE!

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This is a 2015 End of Year Championship qualifying event.
Games are played using the online Heroscape interface. Links to how-to-play videos below:

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Interface

Demonstration game

Using an online voice chat utility, such as Skype or Google Hangouts, improves the playing experience considerably.

Format: Reverse Draft

• Each player submits one army of between 400 and 600 points, and between 7 and 20 figures. Army submissions may have more than 20 figures, but no more than 20 can be placed at the start of the game. VC Allowed, no Marvel. Standard 24-hex startzone restrictions apply when placing your army.
• There is a dice-off at the beginning of the game. The winner of the dice-off chooses whether to make the first army selection, or defer the opening choice to their opponent.
• For the opening army selection, a player selects one of the two armies to play (their army or their opponent's army). They may also state that they intend to sit (leave out) specific figures from that army. Figures left out are not part of the army for that game.
• The player who did not make the bid has two choices:
  1. Let their opponent play the chosen army, and take the other army.
  2. Make a counter-offer for the chosen army. The new offer must sit enough figures to make the partial card point total lower than the offer that came before.
• Continue the counter-offer process until one player decides to take the other army (with all figures available) instead of making a counter-offer on the bidded army.

Example Reverse Draft:

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dok brings Rats x3, Raelin, Q9, Krav Maga Agents.
Dysole brings Sudema, Ashigaru Harquebus x4, Nilfheim.

• Dysole wins the diceoff and elects to make the opening bid. He chooses dok's army, sitting 4 rats.
• dok counter-offers to sit 2 rats and Raelin.
• Dysole counter-offers to sit 4 rats and Raelin.
• dok accepts the bid.

The matchup will be:

Dysole: Rats x2, Q9, Krav Maga Agents
dok: Sudema, Ashigaru Harquebus x4, Nilfheim

The regular season will last four weeks, with one game each week. After the regular season ends there will be a single elimination bracket for the top finishers.

Maps:

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A Stone's Throw (Lodin + Zawit)

Special Placement Rules: Players alternate placing one card's worth of figures from his or her army on any of his or her available starting locations until all figures have been placed.

Avernus (Dagmar + Kelda)


Common Ground (standard glyphs)


Don't Call it a Comeback (No Glyphs)

Special Placement Rules: Players alternate placing one card's worth of figures from his or her army on any of his or her available starting locations until all figures have been placed.

Highways or the High Way (Wannok + Holdir)


Hot Border (No Glyphs)


Marsh Thicket (No Glyphs)


Morh (Valda + Ulaniva)

TG Pool:

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Pool:
Heroic Rune (Attack +1)
Ring of Protection (+3 defense, temporary)
Brooch of Shielding (Disengage)
Belt of Giant Strength (+2 melee attack, temporary)
Glyph of Searing Amulet (unblockable wounds against adjacent)

Trap: Roll one unblockable attack die against every figure standing on a glyph.

Event Details and Rules:

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Power glyphs will be placed, power side up, on maps before the game begins.

Dice-off Equalizer - A check before each game to see the dice off win % for the tournament for each player will be made. If a player has a lower Dice off win % than his opponent, he will automatically win the dice off. Should the win % be tied, a dice off will be performed.

Time Controls

If, at the end of any turn, both of the following conditions are met:

• One player has taken 20 minutes less game time than their opponent according to the app AND
• At least 60 minutes of gameplay time has passed since the timestamp of the first set OMs,

Then the player who has taken less time than their opponent may note the current time gap in the chat window and warn their opponent that they are approaching the timed game finish. After that point, if the time gap between the two players increases by another 10 minutes beyond the noted gap, then the player who has taken less time than their opponent may end the game on time. The game will then go to partial card scoring.

Additionally, if one player has taken 40 minutes less game time than their opponent, the player who has taken less time than their opponent may note the current time gap in the chat window and warn their opponent that they are approaching the slow play forfeit. After that point, if the time gap between the two players increases by another 20 minutes beyond the noted gap, then the player who has taken less time than their opponent may claim a win on time, irrespective of the game situation.
The organizers reserve the right to nullify either of the time controls rules if we find that it is being abused or if we believe the time recorded on the app is incorrect.

Because of the time control rules, it is important to use the app's clocking features correctly.

• Always press the "done" button when your turn is complete.
• If you decide to move to a position where your opponent has the option of a leaving engagement attack or engagement strike, use the appropriate quick message button to tell them to make that roll.
• If you have any out-of-turn movement (scatter, scurry, etc), press "done" when you are done with that movement.
• If you decline an out-of-turn action (e.g. you don't want to attempt a leaving engagement attack on Krug, or you don't want to scatter), press "done" to decline the action.

Stalemate Rule

At the end of any round after the fourth round of the game, a player may activate the stalemate countdown by informing their opponent in the chat window. After that call, if three or more consecutive rounds pass where:

1. There is no attack or attacking power* used against an opponent, and
2. Each player wins initiative at least once,

Then the game is over and the winner is determined by partial card scoring.

Note: If a wound is healed (and/or a destroyed figure is returned to the battlefield) then the attack or power that inflicted the wound (and/or destroyed the figure) does not count for the purposes of avoiding a stalemate.

* "attacking powers" are defined as any special power on an army card or glyph that inflicts wounds, destroys figures, or takes permanent control of figures.

Scheduling

Once a round is announced, you will have one week to complete your game. Please attempt to schedule a time to play your game with your opponent.

If after 72 hours (3 days) you have not been able to reach your opponent via PM, please fill out the missing opponent report to notify the organizers of the situation.

If you cannot come to an agreement with your opponent on a time to schedule the game during that week, then please fill out the scheduling conflict report.

If a game is not completed on time and the tournament organizers are not notified of an issue, both players will be given a loss.

The tournament organizers reserve the right to manually set the pairings involving players with a history of either failing to schedule their games, or not showing up for scheduled game times. Such players will also not be given the benefit of the doubt should scheduling conflicts arise.

Reporting Game Results (and dropping out)

The winner of the game must use the game result form to report results. (This will be linked once the tournament begins.)

If you do not want to continue in the tournament into the next round, please PM an organizer to let them know.

Etiquette for watching games

• Only the tournament referees (awesomeunleashed, Bengi, dok, Dysole, Filthy, Kinseth, Typhon, Xorlof) are authorized to make binding rulings. If no referee is present in a game, ask before offering your opinion.
• Refer to this thread for the etiquette rules of the Online Heroscape tournaments.

Disputes

The tournament referees are awesomeunleashed, Bengi, dok, Dysole, Filthy the Clown, Kinseth, Typhon2222, and Xorlof. These players may make rulings on in-game disputes (line of sight, figures fitting on a space, dice rolled too soon/too late, etc) in games where they are not playing. If there is a dispute and one of these players is online, they may issue an on-the-spot ruling. If you have a dispute you cannot resolve, and none of the referees are present, you may stop the game and PM the tournament referees for a ruling.

NOTE: if a ruling is made late in the week and there is not enough time to schedule completion of the game, the tournament referees may issue a forfeit loss to the player who was ruled against.

Players in the event:

1. Arrow Grut
2. Chris Perkins
3. Crixus33
4. dok
5. Dysole
6. jcustar07
7. kevindola
8. Kinseth
9. MegaSilver
10. Mew28
11. mtl1998
12. Roballtogether
13. Smithy Winfred
14. Soundwarp SG-1
15. Taeblewalker
16. Tom_Bombadil_
17. twigleg2
18. vegies dad
19. vegietarian18
20. William099

[Smithy Winfred]

Maybe I'm crazy, but I don't see the Zettian Infantry, the Zettian Guards or the Zombies of Moridan on the lists

[Dysole]

Originally Posted by Smithy Winfred

Maybe I'm crazy, but I don't see the Zettian Infantry, the Zettian Guards or the Zombies of Moridan on the lists

Corrected. There was some miscommunication between the code we have to set this up and the google forms and it cut off everything after Wolves of Badru alphabetically. I'm not sure exactly what happened but a work around was implemented and it should be good to go.

~Dysole, appreciatively

[William099]

This sounds super confusing. What's the incentive as the second player to bid. Almost seems convoluted enough that i'd just want to skip it and go straight to playing. Furthermore it seems like winning the dice off is more of a bane than a boon as the other player can force you to play under the point total.

[Dysole]

Originally Posted by William099

This sounds super confusing. What's the incentive as the second player to bid. Almost seems convoluted enough that i'd just want to skip it and go straight to playing. Furthermore it seems like winning the dice off is more of a bane than a boon as the other player can force you to play under the point total.

If I've brought Drudge and you've brought Stingers and my opening bid is "Eh, I'll play a Stinger light.", if you don't bid lower you're going to have to beat Stingers with Drudge.

As to the diceoff, well it all depends on the armies. In some situations, playing under the point total is not a bad thing. I'll take 2 squads of 4th Mass against about 5 squads of Groks. The goal is to end up with a balanced matchup. In some matchups, winning the diceoff will give you an advantage and in some it won't.

~Dysole, hopefully clarifying

[William099]

Hmm I see. So as far as building my own army goes what level/grade of units should I focus on?

[Dysole]

Originally Posted by William099

Hmm I see. So as far as building my own army goes what level/grade of units should I focus on?

What's more important is that it's breakdownable (i.e. something with a lot of high point heroes could struggle unless they're all bad so you'll be dissecting the other guys' army). You can pretty comfortably submit just about any level of units.

~Dysole, helpfully

[William099]

Aha. Okey dokey!

[jcustar07]

Is there a space limit for armies?

[Arrow Grut]

I'm a goof.

[dok]

Standard 24-space startzone rules will apply. No extra hexes.

[General J]

So let me get this straight,

I make an army 400-600,
opponent makes an army 400-600.

We die roll, highest # wins.

Winner gets to either choose:
Picking their own army
Picking their opponent's army.

The opponent can then offer; "I will trade you armies under the condition that I sit out x many of x units."

Then I can either say "Yes, that's good, let the game begin." or "No, offer up more." until both parties are satisfied / ready?