Random Draft League Season 1(bis)!

[Foudzing]

Hello everyone and welcome to the RANDOM DRAFT LEAGUE!

This is a brand-new online bi-weekly league. You'll usually have 2 weeks to play your game, if you are a bit late (non-heroscape life stuff happens unfortunately) you may request an extension. Also easter, christmas, scapecon, gencon, american turkey thing etc... everyone gets an extension.

Sign up on the heroscape.org tournament page HERE!

A season will be composed of 5 Swiss-round Games then the top 2 players of the season will battle it out in THE GRAND FINALS. Winner will be crowned season champion.

Ranking of the regular season will be based of number of wins and SoS.
A season will last for about 3 months.

I am planning to start the season around April 1st.

It is highly recommended to use the RANDOM DRAFT LEAGUE DISCORD to schedule matches, stay in touch with announcements and stuff.

The format is the ONE AND ONLY RANDOM DRAFT POOL.

This event will use DELTA POINTS

Rules:

Army limitations

Spoiler Alert!

- Point Total: 500 points (delta)
- Max Figures: 18
- Max Hexes: 24 (sorry not sorry hounds)
- Classic, VC allowed, AoA unreleased ALLOWED, Marvel NOT ALLOWED (almost did it lol)
Delta Points can be found here
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Or you can use the heroscape.org vc delta builder

Randomized Draft (Strike 1)

• For this event, the tournament organizer will provide a unique draft pool for each game. The pool will consist of 15 COMPLETELY random cards.
  Random Draft Creation Rules
  
  Spoiler Alert!

  
  -No unique cards will be listed more than once in the pool
  -Common squads will appear x4
  -Uncommon heroes will appear x1
  -Common heroes will appear x6
  -Generation will stop at 15 cards.
  
  
  
• Before each game, players do a dice-off.
• The winner of the dice-off decides whether to "strike and pick second" or "pick first"
• If the winner chooses ‘pick first’ then the loser of the dice-off will ‘strike and pick second’
• Before any unit selections, the player who strikes and picks second may choose one army card in the draft pool and ban it from play in this game. If an army card of a common unit is selected, they can choose to ban any number of copies of this card they want to (from just 1, up to 4 in case of common squads and up to 6 in case of a common hero). The strike may be declined. Draft then proceeds as normal below
• The person who picks first chooses one card's worth of figures. Players then alternate picking and placing one card per turn from the drafting pool.
• For each unique army card pick, you choose a single card's worth of figures.
• For each common unit army card pick, you make take as many army cards of that type as you like (up to the max available). Each squad past the first one you select will use your subsequent draft pick(s).
  Examples
  
  Spoiler Alert!

  So if I am picking first and select 2 squads of Deepwyrm Drow, then I will have forfeited my 2nd pick.
  
  If I select Deepwyrm Drow x3 then my opponent will get the next 3 picks before I choose again (assuming they do not pick a multiple squad choice)
  
  Later in the draft if more of that same squad are available, either player can pick those up as well.
  Sample Draft
  
  

  Axegrinders x4		85/squad	
  Deathstalkers x4	80/squad
  Armoc Vipers x4		55/figure
  Air Elemental x6	30/figure
  Preyblood Thrall x6	20/figure
  Kalagrith		190
  Laglor			120
  Othkurik the Black	140
  Tor-Kul-Na		220
  Zettian Guards		55
  Hatamoto Taro		80
  Kumiko			75
  Chardris		80
  Soontir Van		50
  Zaeus			130

  
  Player 2 strikes Axegrinders
  Player 1 selects Kalagrith (190)
  Player 2 selects 3 squads of Deathstalkers (240, uses up next 2 picks)
  Player 1 selects Kumiko (265)
  Player 2
  Player 1 selects Armoc Vipers x3 (430, forfeits next 2 picks)
  Player 2
  Player 1
  Player 2 Tor-Kul-Na (460)
  Player 1
  Player 2 Preyblood Thrall x2 (500, done)
  Player 1 Armoc Vipers x1 (485)
  
  Matchups
  Kalagrith, Kumiko, Armoc Vipers x4 vs. Tor-Kul-Na, deathstalkers x3, Preyblood Thrall x2
  
  
• Players continue drafting until they pass or until they have no options within the 500 point, 18 figure limits. 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.
• Once the drafting phase is done, players enter the placing phase, the player who lost dice-off chooses to place first or defer. Player who places first place his whole army (if they have figure to set, they do it now) then the other player places his whole army and eventually set figures.
  *Airborne Elite and Rechets of Bogdan count towards the figure limit.

So basically for those who did play the first random draft tournament it's the exact same format as last time EXCEPT:
- VC and AoA are allowed
- Ro12 goes away
- You place after the whole draft is done, and do the usual online placement process
- 24 hex limit
So it's only simplifications really.

Maps

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Table of Giants by Hasbro
Glyphs from bot to top: Dagmar, Valda, Kelda, Nifl

The Crypt by Flash-19
Glyphs:
Left: Haukeland (Healing), TEMPORARY GLYPH
When one of your figures stops here, you may remove up to 3 Wound Markers from across any of your Army Cards.

Right: Quillivon (Sudden Movement) TEMPORARY GLYPH
Choose up to 3 of your figures other than the one on this Glyph. You may move each of the chosen figures up to 5 spaces.
1 central treasure glyph

Mid-summer by sir Heroscape
Glyphs:
Left: Yadulkia (disengage), Right: Manig Lodin (D20 +2)
2 treasure glyphs!

Fire Isles Foudzing edit
Glyphs:
Left: Rannveig (fly negated), Right: Lorja Ivor (range +1 for figures with Range with 4 or more)
NO treasure glyphs!

Guts by shurrig
Glyphs:
Left: Gerda (defense+1), Right: Sola Astrid (Attack+1 once per om)
2 treasure glyphs!

Marshall Law by Rednax
Glyphs:
Top: Wannok (end of round wound) , Bot: Dagmar (Initiative +8 )
2 treasure glyphs!

Treasure Glyphs and Trap

Spoiler Alert!

Just like figures, the 2 treasure glyphs that will be at your disposal will be randomly picked from a pool, they get placed face down, and when you step on you roll D20 to see which of the two treasure glyphs you get (1-10 get glyph#1, 11-20 get glyph #2).
Also you do the usual roll to check if you get the T-glyph or not (6+), but the trap is actually "nothing happens" this tournament, you just don't get the glyph but can retry later if you want to.

Treasure glyph pool:
Permanent:
Searing amulet (Searing intensity)
Heroic Rune (attack +1)
Talisman of defense (defense +1)
Holy symbol of Pelor (+2 attack vs undeads)
Brooch of shieilding (disengage)
Giant hunter stone (+1attk and +1def vs large and huge)

Single use:
Potion of healing (heal 3)
Whetstone of venom (poison, use before rolling a normal attack, if the attacks wounds add 2 more wounds)
Ring of protection (def +3, choose to use or not after attack dice are rolled)
Bracers of Teleportation (use Tul-Bak-Ra Teleport power)
Cloak of invisibility (invisibility, no visible hit zones until end of round or until you attack)
Belt of Giant Strengh (+2 attack)
Scarab of invulnerability (ignore wounds, when you receive 1 or more wound roll D20, 1-15 ignore 1 wound, 16+ ignore all wounds)

Participants:

1. Foudzing
2. Chris Perkins
3. Sir Heroscape
4. Xiegfried
5. ryguy266
6. Kobeaster
7. Dysole
8. og-blaha
9. Earthling
10. Megasilver
11. srd717
12. SkyWhale
13. IHA
14. Sheep
15. Thrasherdakrai
16. dok
17. Shurrig
18. Arrow Grut
19. AgentWard
20. KnightOfLight
21. kevindola
22. Swarm
23. quozl
24. Moonknight
25. Youngoween
26. DarthLegolas

Special thanks

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Thanks to kevindola for running the first random draft tournament and allowing me to mostly copy paste the post hehehe.

 

[Foudzing]

DRAFT RULES FOR RANDOM DRAFT LEAGUE SEASON 2:

Pool generation

Spoiler Alert!

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- 18 different units​

- Common squads will appear at x4​

- Common heroes will appear at x6​

- Classic allowed, VC allowed, AoA unreleased ALLOWED, Marvel ALLOWED, SoV judges approved but unreleased (Lee Jun and Masha Shingai) ALLOWED​

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Army limitations

Spoiler Alert!

​

- Point Total: 500 points (delta)​

- Max Figures: 18​

- Max Hexes: 24 (sorry not sorry templars)​

Delta Points can be found here​

​

Or you can use the heroscape.org vc delta builder

Randomized Draft (Strike 1)

• For this event, the tournament organizer will provide a unique draft pool for each game. The pool will consist of 18 COMPLETELY random cards.
  Random Draft Creation Rules
  
  Spoiler Alert!

  
  -No unique cards will be listed more than once in the pool
  -Common squads will appear x4
  -Uncommon heroes will appear x2
  -Common heroes will appear x8
  -Generation will stop at 18 cards.
  
• Before each game, players do a dice-off.
• The winner of the dice-off decides whether to "strike and pick second" or "pick first"
• If the winner chooses ‘pick first’ then the loser of the dice-off will ‘strike and pick second’
  • Before any unit selections, the player who strikes and picks second may choose one army card in the draft pool and ban it from play in this game. If an army card that appeared in multiples copies is selected, they can choose to ban any number of copies of this card they want to (from just 1, up to 2 in case of an uncommon hero, up to 4 in case of common squads and up to 8 in case of a common hero). The strike may be declined. Draft then proceeds as normal below
• The person who picks first chooses one card's worth of figures. Players then alternate picking one card per turn from the drafting pool.
• For each unique army card pick, you choose a single card's worth of figures.
• For each common unit army card pick, you make take as many army cards of that type as you like (up to the max available). Each squad past the first one you select will use your subsequent draft pick(s).
  Examples
  
  Spoiler Alert!

  So if I am picking first and select 2 squads of Deepwyrm Drow, then I will have forfeited my 2nd pick.
  
  If I select Deepwyrm Drow x3 then my opponent will get the next 3 picks before I choose again (assuming they do not pick a multiple squad choice)
  
  Later in the draft if more of that same squad are available, either player can pick those up as well.
  Sample Draft
  
  

  Axegrinders x4        85/squad
  Deathstalkers x4    80/squad
  Armoc Vipers x4        55/figure
  Air Elemental x6    30/figure
  Preyblood Thrall x6    20/figure
  Kalagrith        190
  Laglor            120
  Othkurik the Black    140
  Tor-Kul-Na        220
  Zettian Guards        55
  Hatamoto Taro        80
  Kumiko            75
  Chardris        80
  Soontir Van        50
  Zaeus            130
  Dr. Doom            210
  Mielki the Kyrie Warrior           100

  
  Player 2 strikes Axegrinders
  Player 1 selects Kalagrith (190)
  Player 2 selects 3 squads of Deathstalkers (240, uses up next 2 picks)
  Player 1 selects Kumiko (265)
  Player 2
  Player 1 selects Armoc Vipers x3 (430, forfeits next 2 picks)
  Player 2
  Player 1
  Player 2 Tor-Kul-Na (460)
  Player 1
  Player 2 Preyblood Thrall x2 (500, done)
  Player 1 Armoc Vipers x1 (485)
  
  Matchups
  Kalagrith, Kumiko, Armoc Vipers x4 vs. Tor-Kul-Na, deathstalkers x3, Preyblood Thrall x2
  
  
• Players continue drafting until they pass or until they have no options within the 500 point, 18 figure limits. Once a player passes or has no draftable options without going over the point limit, their draft ends, and the other player may continue drafting until they have no options remaining.
• Once the drafting phase is done, players enter the placing phase, the player who lost dice-off chooses to place first or defer. Player who places first place his whole army (if they have figure to set, they do it now) then the other player places his whole army and eventually set figures.
  *Airborne Elite and Rechets of Bogdan count towards the figure limit.