SBVT3 Genpei Wars tournament signup

Please indicate your interest in playing in this tournament by signing up below. I just need your Time zone, and even that can be from your profile if it is accurate. There is an overview and useful timeline of the Project here

The Genpei Project uses some new units, terrain and a new VASSAL extension

New Units (Sohei Warriors & Archers)
www.boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/44894/new-units
New Terrain
www.boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/44895/new-terrain

There are a range of scenarios, and I'll check with Brent to see which are ready for tournament play
www.boardgamegeek.com/blog/4778

For the scenarios, I'll have to get a set of VASSAL game files prepared and uploaded for players to load.

I'm in I've been following Brent's Genpei work and would love to play some of these scenarios.

Same here - time zone is GMT -6, until November 1, when it will be GMT -7.

I'm in. Time zone GMT+2 right now. Will become +1 the 25th of October. I'm looking forward to playing some scenarios of the Genepei project. I hope to practice a bit with the new rules before the tournament. Opponents wanted.

I'm in! GMT -4.

Thanks for setting this up, Mark.

I'm very excited for others try out some of these scenarios and I'd really love to get feedback. I'll say up front that they're not all intended to be balanced but it's a case of how well you do with what you've got…..perfect for a mini-tournament format and why I like the format so much. You've all surely noticed by now that Samurai Battles is a lot less predictable and much more swingy than some of its C&C cousins and I gave up trying to get things perfect in terms of balance. The historical victor will be favoured in all cases but there's nothing to stop the historical loser getting a good banner result or pulling off a win.

I've discussed a dozen or so options for scenarios with Mark and will finalise the seven we want to use shortly. I'm just going to reword a few of the rules for clarification at Mark's suggestion. I have logfiles ready for all of them. To keep things simple, these will be scenarios that only introduce a couple of the new rules……..sohei and Palisades (which are equivalent in all respects to Ramparts in Ancients except that there is an option to attempt to destroy them).

I'm not planning on playing in this tournament for a couple of reasons. One is that I'm going away for a large chunk of October (Japan! ). The other is that I probably have some small advantage in these scenarios having dry run them a number of times and knowing what tactical opportunities I think I've designed into them (although any advantage may be offset by my play mistakes ). I'd also like to get a bit of distance from them and see how other people experience them with my hands off the wheel.

Brent.

this has kind of fallen off my radar due to a busy patch, but with Brent's return we have 6.

Shall we proceed on the basis of a mini-tournament (2 teams of 3), or we could do a round robin format (5 matches, each of a scenario and reverse)

I always like the MT format for asymmetrical scenarios…..2 groups of 3 would work. 3 matches in the preliminary round with top player of each group playing a double match final? (= 4 scenarios)

Brent.

for reasons I can't fathom, but presumably work induced craziness, I listed Scipio on the Tournament page.
I should be plainscape . Sorry Todd

I'll fix it up now

Thanks for correcting that. But how do I get to the tournament page?

May my lack of luck on the forums somehow aid me in battle!