I'm always up for something. DS/LS, Era Wars, Peasant Wars, 500pt Epic format, etc. Anything can be good.

Oooo it would be fun to have another Seps vs Republic, Imps vs Rebel etc with each side having a General who assigns the specific pieces to the people on their side.

What about a Known Map tournament? Each round, choose a different map, and everyone plays on that map for the round - building a squad specifically for that map.

Or a LS/DS narrative tournament where each round tells a story of how things will play out? Re-play a movie or show, or create our own narrative as things evolve. Each round, declare two factions (one LS and one DS), possibly with specific characters that have to be in the squads. Everyone builds both squads, and then roll off to see which player will play which side. If more LS squads win their games, then resolve that round's narrative with a LS win and vice versa. Next round's LS/DS match-up and rules based on the idea of continuing that same story.






(I'm 50/50 for a long event, so don't take my ideas too seriously.)

i'm in for whatever format we choose. i haven't played a game since vassalcon so i'm kinda wanting to test out some of the new stuff!

i had an idea for a really long form tournament where we build squads through the many years of star wars minatures sets that have come out. Every week you gain access to more sets until eventually we get to v-set 22 at the end. There have been 40 sets that have been released over the course of this game and if we started at Rebel storm and did 4 sets a week (it starts at first 4 sets then next week adds the next 4 etc), we'd be done in 10 weeks. The small packs like Crystal Caves of Illum and Attack on Endor would be included in addition to the 4 sets if they fall in between the block of sets. So here's how it'd work:

Week 1:

Build a squad using the following sets:

starting with Rebel Storm
to
Universe

Week 2:

build a squad using the following sets:

Rebel Storm
to
Rebels and Imperials

etc....


eventually we will get to V-set 22 which is our 40th set since this game came into production. It'd be fun i think to go through the years of this game and try out older stuff and eventually integrate the newer stuff from the vset's.

At some point for a long-form tournament I think I'd like to do one in a 500pt Epic format. It doesn't have to be this event (because someone has already said he'd rather stick to 200pts, which is totally fine by me), but I'm just putting the idea out there since we're brainstorming ideas right now:


The tournament would be a round-robin style event, where each player plays each other player once (one game per week, as usual).

The catch is that you can only use any faction once during the round robin. So if you use Epic Lord Hoth (OR) in Round 1, then you cannot use him or the other Epic OR characters (Revan Redeemed, Master Satele Shan) for the rest of your round robin games. Therefore, assuming we have less than 10 players, the pool of available choices would gradually shrink as the weeks go by; if we had more than 10 players then the factions would reset midway through the round robin games.

Assuming we have playoff rounds, your factions would be reset at the start of the playoff rounds...BUT you would not still be able to use the Epic Characters that you used previously. So in this example, you could use Revan Redeemed or Master Satele in the playoffs, but you still couldn't use Epic Lord Hoth again.

The idea here is that all the players would be exposed to a whole bunch of different Epic characters, so there would be a good amount of variety.


As a reminder, here are the 500pt Epic format rules:
--Maximum of 16 activations (including reserves/reinforcements). Sometimes we have placed a limit on the number of CEs in a squad, and that would be something to discuss among the players beforehand.
--Your squad must include exactly one epic miniature from Epic Sets 1, 2, or 3.
--You may not decrease the number of activations in a phase but you may increase as permitted by the character providing the form of activation control.
--Bastila's ABM is active only for the round it is turned on.
--Gambit is 25 points and must be scored by a 25point piece or higher. (Sometimes we've said that it can only be scored by a player's Epic piece, but that might be a bit too restrictive.)
--The 8th Cortex Shaper (Vong) is banned at 500pts.
--Match length is 90 minutes after setup. A player needs to score 500pts for a 3pt win, or 250pts for a 1 point loss. (Another option could be that you can also earn a 1pt loss by simply defeating your opponent's Epic character, regardless of your points total.)

I don't know how many people still enjoy the Epic 500 format, but it remains one of my personal favorites!

Yes, that is a challenge. I fear known map would restrict it even further.


I know for myself, I want to be able to run squads that I would play in a regular 200pt tournament, but not be stuck playing it the whole time. So formats that encourage builds that would never have a shot in the competitive scene don't appeal to me as much. Ones where you "game the system" are what I mean. Known map tournaments I feel would lean that way.

I also want to do something a little different. I like forcing faction changes, but beyond that I want options of squad building to be pretty open.

Thoughts on making it faction specific also? Maybe limiting fringe to mice, uggie, r7? Would love to see more faction pure stuffs.