I’ve been contemplating putting together a new tournament.
The last one “Scouts Out†tournament was an all meeting engagement tournament so this time I was thinking of an all probe tournament. (The “Probe This†tournament?)
Perhaps after that an all Attack, then an all Assault tournament but we can discuss that at a later date.
This would again have four rounds of tiny or small probe scenarios, two Allied probes and two Axis probes. And again, due to the possibility of a scenario imbalance there would be two winners, the player with the highest combined Allied score and the player with the highest combined Axis Score.
This time, to discourage people from dropping out, I thought I would discard the lowest score and add only a players three highest scores.
In building the first scenario I have taken a suggestion from a player in the first tournament, forgive me if I don’t remember your name, and added “Unit Objective(s)†along with terrain objectives,
This is unique to me because I have neither played nor created a scenario before with unit objectives.
There is a couple of issues I would like your thoughts on.
The first and foremost is a lesson learned from the Scouts tournament.
Which game or games to use?
It took me by surprise that not everyone has every game.
Crazy right?
I’m going to start a poll and get a feel for whether to use just CMBN which I think everyone has or CMBN and another game which I would assume would be Fortress Italy or Final Blitzkrieg.
Also, I was thinking of putting out call to scenario designers to create a scenario for the tournament.
It is a great way to have a scenario play tested and to receive feedback to create a well-balanced scenario you can up load to the Scenario Depot and become a “Scenario Author†(If there isn’t all ready perhaps there should be an FGM ribbon for this)
The problem with this is it may be that a scenario author for obvious reasons could not play in the tournament or at least not in the scenario he designed.
I'm thinking a designer could play in the other three scenarios having used the scenario he designed as the dropped lowest score scenario.
Any other thought or ideas?
The last one “Scouts Out†tournament was an all meeting engagement tournament so this time I was thinking of an all probe tournament. (The “Probe This†tournament?)
Perhaps after that an all Attack, then an all Assault tournament but we can discuss that at a later date.
This would again have four rounds of tiny or small probe scenarios, two Allied probes and two Axis probes. And again, due to the possibility of a scenario imbalance there would be two winners, the player with the highest combined Allied score and the player with the highest combined Axis Score.
This time, to discourage people from dropping out, I thought I would discard the lowest score and add only a players three highest scores.
In building the first scenario I have taken a suggestion from a player in the first tournament, forgive me if I don’t remember your name, and added “Unit Objective(s)†along with terrain objectives,
This is unique to me because I have neither played nor created a scenario before with unit objectives.
There is a couple of issues I would like your thoughts on.
The first and foremost is a lesson learned from the Scouts tournament.
Which game or games to use?
It took me by surprise that not everyone has every game.
Crazy right?
I’m going to start a poll and get a feel for whether to use just CMBN which I think everyone has or CMBN and another game which I would assume would be Fortress Italy or Final Blitzkrieg.
Also, I was thinking of putting out call to scenario designers to create a scenario for the tournament.
It is a great way to have a scenario play tested and to receive feedback to create a well-balanced scenario you can up load to the Scenario Depot and become a “Scenario Author†(If there isn’t all ready perhaps there should be an FGM ribbon for this)
The problem with this is it may be that a scenario author for obvious reasons could not play in the tournament or at least not in the scenario he designed.
I'm thinking a designer could play in the other three scenarios having used the scenario he designed as the dropped lowest score scenario.
Any other thought or ideas?
