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Islandscape XII, 7/22/18. Save the Date!

WarBanner

WarBanner

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Islandscape continues, with its twelfth straight year of competition!


SAVE THE DATE
Sunday, July 22nd 12pm - 6pm
at
Legendary Realms
294 E Montauk Hwy, Lindenhurst, NY 11757
(Just a mile from the Lindenhurst train station)​

Set up from 11:30 - 12:30, first round will start by 1pm.
5 rounds, Swiss style, with the top 2 at the end of the 4th round playing for the championship.

Battle of the (up to) Five Armies​

  • Players may bring up to five unique armies. Non-unique units may be duplicated within armies, but no unit may be used in more than a single army.
  • Point limit for the first army is 500. If you bring a second army, its point limit is 525. Point limit for your third army is 550, for the fourth army 575, and for the fifth army, 600.
  • All armies must be played in increasing size order. If you bring fewer than five armies, your largest army will be the one you continue play in all later rounds.
  • Starting zone hex limit is 18 spaces for all armies.
  • Please bring a pre-printed list of all armies, to save time and my (little remaining) sanity. Alternatively, send me your list via PM or email me: warbanner at gmail.
  • Cost is free, but we do request you bring a prize for the prize table, and show some love for our host, Legendary Realms.
Important Note​
I will be bringing *at least* one extra set of five armies, in case anyone does not have the werewithal to build a full set. I will happily offer anyone without armies to use that, or even to use the set of five I plan to use myself, if they wish. I can also pretty well guarantee that if you need a unit, ask, and someone who is coming will bring it. Proxies are also allowed, if necessary.

6/16 update: Trophies are in, and they look good. Also, I got some Varkaanians for the prize table.

6/27 update: Ruling on maps and glyphs:
We will only use maps from this year's GenCon map list. Those maps are listed below. Only 2 of these maps (Ticalla Sunrise and Common Ground) come with glyphs, so we will use the listed glyphs on those maps. They will be placed face down, randomly, but players will be aware in advance what the 2 glyphs are.
Burial Marsh
Common Ground
Draugur
Fulcrum
Highways & Dieways
Quasatch Playground
Remains of Clionesia
Stygian Rift
Ticalla Sunrise


Attendees:
  1. Warbanner
  2. Chas
  3. Sir Dendrik
  4. DoomCarrot
  5. Kolakoski
  6. Taeblewalker
  7. IshMEL
  8. Son of IshMEL
Maybe:
Nicholas
Houndsrule
DragonRuler
ManatArms
MathJedi
JohnGee

Unable to attend:
Sherman Davies
OrcElfArmyOne
Grishnakh
Son of Grishnakh
Rich10
Jet
 
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Can't commit to it yet, but you can put myself, DragonRuler, and houndsrule on the maybe list. Hope we can make it down again to what is always a great event!
 
I'm also a maybe! I won't know until later. But I'm definitely interested!
 
Hooray for Islandscape. Don't forget the trophies...and cake!

But dudes, Saturday is the 21st; not the 22nd.
 
I’m in and I’ll be bringing MathJedi who I think some of you may have met. Looking forward to this once again!
 
You are correct, but the date is right, the DAY is wrong. The tournament will be Sunday. Thanks for the catch, guys!
 
Thanks for the TAG to keep me in the info loop. I am always interested, but can't commit this far out. The distance ( > 3 hrs. drive ), the cost ( gas, GSP & bridge trolls, etc. ), family obligations, and conflicting work schedule, are all factors that need to be considered and coordinated. I'll check back in occasionally to keep in touch.
 
Man_At_Arms said:
Oh, I had assumed the day (Saturday) was right but the date was wrong. Sunday would be very tough for me.
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In the preliminary emailed discussions preceding this announcement it was mentioned that there is another event scheduled at Legendary Realms on Saturday, necessitating moving the event to SUNDAY. Hopefully the organizer will soon confirm the date for us.
 
I will be in attendance.

I didn't understand the format until reading the OP. Should make for an interesting tournament.

I'm right in assuming C3V and SoV are on the menu?
 

Well met!

As it happens, I will be in town, and will be able to make it this year!

 

Well met!

By the way, great format! I've so enjoyed building armies for it. After last year's debacle, two things are clear to me - I am not a great player, and I'm bringing the cheese. Even so, with an 18 space limit, determining which armies get which cheese, and the cheeses' relative value, is not a cynch. You can't put Q9 In more than one army. How do you decide which army to put him in?

 
Yeah, lots of opportunity for wide varieties of cheese. The bigger question might be, which army gets Raelin? Also, did you quote and respond to yourself?
 
Well met!

WarBanner said:
Yeah, lots of opportunity for wide varieties of cheese. The bigger question might be, which army gets Raelin? Also, did you quote and respond to yourself?
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Yes! At least someone pays attention . . .

Spreading the cheese, I think the first 4 armies need to be strong to get you into position for a championship final, but total power cheese isn't a lot of fun. What I'm tentatively fielding could best be described as

Spoiler Alert!
 
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What are we doing for maps?

Might I suggest we only use maps that will be appearing at GenCon this year. A broken map can ruin its fair share of games.
 
;) Trophies? In the last two years I won 3rd Place and Worst Luck (our 4th Place Booby Prize). I hope I can do a triple this year, but unfortunately for me, it looks like more than four players will attend!

BTW, we do allow proxies for the C3V/SOV as usual, right?

And don't forget the cake, which I'll pay for again.
 
Sir Dendrik said:
What are we doing for maps?

Might I suggest we only use maps that will be appearing at GenCon this year. A broken map can ruin its fair share of games.
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Doesn't look like we'll be able to make it, Sunday is really tough for us driving 3.5-4 hours each way.

Also, I'd recommend the above. That, and other maps in the top 2 tiers of my map tier list (link in my sig).
 
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