Tourney, home of cheese
- Thread starter Nightmares about Minbari
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NAM - I sort of see where you're coming from about tourneys being a forum where competative gaming can thrive (in a friendly and sporting atmosphere though). The trouble is, a few options are/were clearly too powerful, others are a bit to powerful but not unbeatable and many others are good and balanced but require good generalmanship to be consistantly victorious.
Finding these dividing lines is hard but hopefully something that will gradually happen meaning that all ships and fleets are able to beat and be beaten by most combinations on a regular basis.
The 10xSag fleet was wrong. Now with the Armageddon pdf it just got worse! However, for almost everything else things are getting better over time.
Finding these dividing lines is hard but hopefully something that will gradually happen meaning that all ships and fleets are able to beat and be beaten by most combinations on a regular basis.
The 10xSag fleet was wrong. Now with the Armageddon pdf it just got worse! However, for almost everything else things are getting better over time.
Nightmares about Minbari
Mongoose
@Triggy: I did admit that I didn't understand the sag as a skirmish ship, and that it might be broken.
Geekybiker
Mongoose
I expect to see anything that is legal within the rules show up at a tournament. I think that the US in gerneral is a bit more competitive like that than the UK players from what Ive seen on the board though.
Who know what the new cheese fleets will be with the rule changes.
Current Cheese
10x Saggitarius
2x Shadow huntre, 1x shadow scout
Who know what the new cheese fleets will be with the rule changes.
Current Cheese
10x Saggitarius
2x Shadow huntre, 1x shadow scout
Nightmares about Minbari
Mongoose
And mine, but that's why I don't play tourney games.
However the big tourney events are serving two masters.
1) the uber competative games for the real rules lawyers
2) events for ACTA players from different places to meet up and play against each other.
serving two masters is never easy, maybe there should be friendly and competative tourneys, or at least some indication as to what sort of tourney it is.
But maybe I shouldn't be talking about tourneys at all as I've yet to attend one.
However the big tourney events are serving two masters.
1) the uber competative games for the real rules lawyers
2) events for ACTA players from different places to meet up and play against each other.
serving two masters is never easy, maybe there should be friendly and competative tourneys, or at least some indication as to what sort of tourney it is.
But maybe I shouldn't be talking about tourneys at all as I've yet to attend one.
Geekybiker
Mongoose
No reason why you can't have fun *And* be competitive. You just need to regularly ban the fleets that prove to be a problem. (And keep those in mind for rules revision when the time comes)
Nightmares about Minbari
Mongoose
That's a fine line that not everyone can walk, from what I've seen.
Geekybiker
Mongoose
Nightmares about Minbari said:
probably. But I think that's more from people on the competitive end of the spectrum..... You know being reminded of rules they are breaking, or perhaps have been playing wrong all along with their buddies.
After all if you're just there for the fun of it, and the fleets are reasonably balanced, who cares if you win or lose.
Then again playing against someone argueing over 1/8" of move or range or 2* of turn can be a frustrating experience.
Nightmares about Minbari
Mongoose
Isn't that going to be 20 patrol ships under the new rules?
Nightmares about Minbari
Mongoose
Hey, that means 5 sag and 10 hermes, even more missiles!
Just gets better and better
Or worse and worse depending on your pint of view.
Just gets better and better
Or worse and worse depending on your pint of view.
The two tourney's I've been to/hosted were quite friendly, albeit small, affairs. We did have Shadow fleets, and I'm sure in the Raid scenario they used the 2H+1S combo to good effect, but due to the varied PL structure of my tourneys, they only really had the advantage in that fight.
Chern
Chern
