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Online Scape Season 23 - CONGRATS KEVINDOLA

Dysole

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Online Heroscape Season 23​


This is a 2016 End of Year Championship qualifying event.
Games are played using the online Heroscape interface. Links to how-to-play videos below:
Spoiler Alert!
Using an online voice chat utility, such as Skype or Google Hangouts, improves the playing experience considerably.

Format: Hot Draft

  • For this event, each player will bring a draft pool. Rules for your draft pool:
    • Minimum of 1000 points; maximum of 1105 points (VC units allowed, no Marvel).
    • Maximum of 50 figures total for your draft pool.
    • No duplicate uniques.
    • No single card in your pool can account for more than 20 figures.
  • Each game, your draft pool will be combined with your opponent's draft pool to form one large draft pool that both players draft out of. If there are duplicate uniques, one copy of the unique card will be eliminated from the pool.
  • The winner of the dice-off chooses whether to pick and place first or second.
  • The person who picks first chooses one card's worth of figures and places it. Players alternate picking and placing a single card from the drafting pool.
  • For each pick, you choose a single card's worth of figures and place it on the battlefield (unless you draft Airborne/Rechets). All squad figures placed that turn must be within 3 clear sight spaces of each other and figures may not be placed on glyphs or adjacent to opponent's figures.
  • Players continue drafting until they pass or until they have no options within the 535 point, 20 figure limits. There is no 24-space limit for this event. Once a player passes or has no placeable options, their draft ends, and the other player may continue drafting until they have no options remaining.
  • The player who lost the dice-off decides which player automatically wins opening initiative. This decision is made after armies are placed and before Order Markers are placed.


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:
Spoiler Alert!

TG Pool:
Spoiler Alert!

Event Details and Rules:
Spoiler Alert!

Players in the event:
  • belgarath
  • Chris Perkins
  • dok
  • Dysole
  • Jesus20456
  • kevindola
  • Kinseth
  • MegaSilver
  • mew28
  • mtl1998
  • vegies dad
  • vegietarian18
 
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Re: Online Scape Season 23 - Hot Draft Signups until January

So it's heat of battle? I don't see anything about starting zones in the OP.

Cage Match is one of my favorite maps ever. Looks enticing.
 
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So it's heat of battle? I don't see anything about starting zones in the OP.

Cage Match is one of my favorite maps ever. Looks enticing.

Yeah. We basically meshed Heat of Battle and Draft together.

~Dysole, hoping you join
 
Re: Online Scape Season 23 - Hot Draft Signups until January

I'll probably get in so I can see if I can extend my loosing streak.
 
Re: Online Scape Season 23 - Hot Draft Signups until January

Congrats to @TreePowerz for winning the Ticalla Jungle prize for the 2015 season.

Please PM me your information on where I should send you the prize.
 
Re: Online Scape Season 23 - Hot Draft Signups until January

I perform historically poorly in draft events like this. I'll spectators this time around.
 
Re: Online Scape Season 23 - Hot Draft Signups until January

First time trying to play Heroscape competitively, should be fun :D
 
Re: Online Scape Season 23 - Hot Draft Signups until January

I perform historically poorly in draft events like this. I'll spectators this time around.

Just an FYI, we are going to have 1 less event this year. Instead of our usual 6+ End of Year, we are going to do 5+ End of Year.
 
Re: Online Scape Season 23 - Hot Draft Signups until January

I want to play, but I'm not sure if I can. I don't think a draft is up to the balance standards that Online Heroscape has put out.

How? Well, let's say someone brings a draft pool with only a single strong figure. They could easily win games just by winning the diceoff. Now, the diceoff equalizer was invented to prevent these kinds of players from winning the event, but I'm just worried about the early rounds when the equalizer will not have taken effect yet. If I get outdiceoffed in the first round by some n00b who employs this strategy, I could have my online ranking decimated. This is not an option.

Luckily, there is a solution: Cut the Cake Draft! Cut the Cake is the famous solution to prevent players with unbalanced armies from winning in Bring 2, so it's perfect for creating balance here in a draft format. Both players draft an army, then the player who lost the diceoff gets to pick which one he wants. No more winning games by dropping a strong figure in your pool!

Now, the downside to this decision is that dok can no longer take advantage of players who mess up the draft. This is a hard thing for me to let go of, but I think it's necessary.

Can we get a hotfix to the rules to make it Cut the Cake Draft?
 
Re: Online Scape Season 23 - Hot Draft Signups until January

I know how hyper-competitive you can be vegie, but sometimes we just want our formats to be fun.
 
Re: Online Scape Season 23 - Hot Draft Signups until January

I know how hyper-competitive you can be vegie, but sometimes we just want our formats to be fun.

Okay cool, looks like we don't have to play Cut the Cake anymore
 
Re: Online Scape Season 23 - Hot Draft Signups until January

Okay cool, looks like we don't have to play Cut the Cake anymore
I like Cut the Cake a lot. That twist on this format would be fun.

That said, I like the sound of this format. Wish I felt that I had the time to play.
 
Re: Online Scape Season 23 - Hot Draft Signups until January

I want to play, but I'm not sure if I can. I don't think a draft is up to the balance standards that Online Heroscape has put out.

How? Well, let's say someone brings a draft pool with only a single strong figure. They could easily win games just by winning the diceoff. Now, the diceoff equalizer was invented to prevent these kinds of players from winning the event, but I'm just worried about the early rounds when the equalizer will not have taken effect yet. If I get outdiceoffed in the first round by some n00b who employs this strategy, I could have my online ranking decimated. This is not an option.

Luckily, there is a solution: Cut the Cake Draft! Cut the Cake is the famous solution to prevent players with unbalanced armies from winning in Bring 2, so it's perfect for creating balance here in a draft format. Both players draft an army, then the player who lost the diceoff gets to pick which one he wants. No more winning games by dropping a strong figure in your pool!

Now, the downside to this decision is that dok can no longer take advantage of players who mess up the draft. This is a hard thing for me to let go of, but I think it's necessary.

Can we get a hotfix to the rules to make it Cut the Cake Draft?
Or just do not draft there trash units? You can bring a over 1000 points of units and are playing a 500 point game. Just make two army's that work independently of certain units so you do not get counter drafted.
 
Re: Online Scape Season 23 - Hot Draft Signups until January

I don't think I'll be in this time; new semester starting up and whatnot
 
Re: Online Scape Season 23 - Hot Draft Signups until January

Signed up. I request people submit draft pools with rich heroic souls that are ripe for the devouring. Unrelated to my draft pool composition, obviously.
 
Re: Online Scape Season 23 - Hot Draft Signups until January

I think I came up with a way to powergame the format with my draft pool. Well, maybe not powergame, since I completely neglected to provide any options for the ladies, but I metagamed and assumed that all my opponents would be male. Anyway, the “Hot Draft” promises to be another unique way to play Heroscape. I never expected to see a mashup between Heroscape and The Bachelor, yet here it is. Looking forward to another great season!
 
Re: Online Scape Season 23 - Hot Draft Signups until January

I think I came up with a way to powergame the format with my draft pool. Well, maybe not powergame, since I completely neglected to provide any options for the ladies, but I metagamed and assumed that all my opponents would be male. Anyway, the “Hot Draft” promises to be another unique way to play Heroscape. I never expected to see a mashup between Heroscape and The Bachelor, yet here it is. Looking forward to another great season!

Will you accept this... Skull?
 
Assumptions

I think I came up with a way to powergame the format with my draft pool. Well, maybe not powergame, since I completely neglected to provide any options for the ladies , but I metagamed and assumed that all my opponents would be male and heterosexual. Anyway, the “Hot Draft” promises to be another unique way to play Heroscape. I never expected to see a mashup between Heroscape and The Bachelor, yet here it is. Looking forward to another great season!

Fixed that for you. ~_^

~Dysole, pedantically
 
Re: Online Scape Season 23 - Hot Draft Signups until January

Signed up. I'll either destroy all of my opponents or be sent home with my tail tucked between my legs.
 
Round 1 is on Zephyr.

The Dysole v. mew28 pool of armies is:
* Axegrinders of Burning Forge x2, Beorn Boltcutter, Otonashi, Seleena, Ulfrid Hornwrangler, Zettian Deathwings x3, Brave Arrow, Kira Jax, Mohican River Tribe x3, Quorik Warwitch, Zetacron, The Varja
* Marcus Decimus Gallus, Airborne Elite, Roman Legionnaires x4, Ne-Gok-Sa, Charos, Greenscale Warriors x3, Sgt. Drake Alexander [SotM]
mew28 chooses who picks and places first from the combined pool. After armies are picked, Dysole chooses who wins opening initiative.

The dok v. Kinseth pool of armies is:
* Marrden Hounds x4, Goblin Cutters x4, Omnicron Repulsors x2, Hoplitron x2, Marcu Esenwein, Major J15, Seleena, Van Nessing, Werewolf Lord
* Red Wyrmling x3, Black Wyrmling x3, Bloodburst Thrall x3, Deathstrike Thrall, Wolves of Badru x2, Raelin the Kyrie Warrior [SotM], Werewolf Lord, Nicholas Esenwein, Van Nessing, Emperor Andask
dok chooses who picks and places first from the combined pool. After armies are picked, Kinseth chooses who wins opening initiative.

The kevindola v. MegaSilver pool of armies is:
* Greater Ice Elemental, Shaolin Monks x4, Shades of Bleakwoode x3, Master Win Chiu Woo, Dumutef Guard x4, Ana Karithon
* Death Chasers of Thesk x2, Ogre Pulverizer, Ogre Warhulk, Air Elemental x2, Death Knights of Valkrill x3, Me-Burq-Sa, Roman Legionnaires x2, Skull Demon, Valguard, Racheim, Marcu Esenwein
kevindola chooses who picks and places first from the combined pool. After armies are picked, MegaSilver chooses who wins opening initiative.

The belgarath v. vegies dad pool of armies is:
* Sir Gilbert, Alastair MacDirk, Knights of Weston x2, 4th Massachusetts Line x2, Braxas, Fen Hydra, Kelda the Kyrie Warrior, Krav Maga Agents, Raelin the Kyrie Warrior [RotV]
* Fen Hydra x2, Feral Troll x2, Finn the Viking Champion, Fire Elemental x5, Frost Giant of Morh x2, Fyorlag Spiders x3
belgarath chooses who picks and places first from the combined pool. After armies are picked, vegies dad chooses who wins opening initiative.

The vegietarian18 v. Jesus20456 pool of armies is:
* Agent Skahen, Ana Karithon, Elaria the Pale, Eltahale, Jorhdawn, Josie Whistlestop, Kumiko, Mika Connour, Nakita Agents, Seleena, Sharwin Wildborn, Sonya Esenwein
* Gorillinators x2, Nakita Agents, Gorillitroopers x2, Laglor, Augamo, Kursus, Zaeus, Deathreavers
Jesus20456 chooses who picks and places first from the combined pool. After armies are picked, vegietarian18 chooses who wins opening initiative.

The mtl1998 v. Chris Perkins pool of armies is:
* Braxas, Sudema, Crypt Guardian x4, Xualtica Fire Ants x5, Ashigaru Harquebus x4
* Frost Giant of Morh x2, Fen Hydra x2, Moltenclaw, Othkurik The Black Dragon, Shurrak, Rhogar Dragonspine
Chris Perkins chooses who picks and places first from the combined pool. After armies are picked, mtl1998 chooses who wins opening initiative.
 
Re: Online Scape Season 23 - Hot Draft Signups until January

Wow. I didn't realize how low the number of participants was. Only 12.. Half from a year ago.
 
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