When we play locally, we always decide before the game if we are playing competitively or for fun. It just helps to even out the squads.

Sounds logical, until you know that my vassal games have been 100 or 150 of late.

I don't mind Dodonna. It is when I see Dodonna and Reeikan together that my soul dies a little inside.

I agree with Boris on this. I think its funnier when i player copies a squad someone else has made to the T and tries to play it, it normally doesnt turn out well. What people fail to realize is you will do much better in tourneys/regionals/gencon if you run something that YOU like not something that someone else likes.

I fell into "Dodonna Mode" last year around this time when really i liked running Assajj Assassin at the time. So instead of playing a squad i really liked and was unique i ran a rieekan dodonna team at DragonCon and did very poorly. I say all that just to point out that espeicially at 200 points litterally any faction can win a regional. Will me saying that stop everyone from running NR/Rebels (dodonna)? no. It does need to be said.

It takes a pretty good player to try and pull out a big win with one of the smaller factions. Id personally love to see it happen.

It's always a good idea to run silly, they never expect a Geonosian Drone/Picador swarm!

When you sync, two gray boxes pop up with "Ok" and "Cancel" or something to that effect. The first one is player. Sometimes you need to pull the window open more to see it, otherwise the default is observer, which lets you do nothing.

I did download the 10.0 a few hours ago but I do not know what do do with it once I do, the file is in my Vassel folder and the holocron memo said to replace the old SWMinis.mod but I can't find any old SWMinis.mod file to replace it. I am going to get my eldest son to check it out in a bit, maybe he can figue it out.

My son got it to work, now when I open Vassal 10.0 it works perfectly so far. Now all I need is someone with patience to teach me how to play. See you guys on there

Well like I said there is nothing wrong with be competitive, sometimes I wish I were more competitve myself but I am stuck this laid back demeanor. I have the otter personality, if its not fun I won't do it lol.

I think the issue with me is not the competitive nature but the fact that to be competitive means the same minis have to be used over and over. It kind of takes the fun out of a match when playing or playing against the same team all the time. There are 950 minis and you only see a handfull of them being used. Its kind of like the island of misfit toys for the other 900.

One of the things I like about my group is you never see the same team twice, you never know what to expect and that makes it always exciting. Now none of us will probably ever win a reginal but unless they give out a 2010 Mustang for first place I would not really care. ( disclaimer: if a 2010 Mustang is first place price for reginals plz disregard all of the above statements ; )

After reginals for the next 6 monthes make a vow not to use any mini more than once with the exception of the 3 point pieces. A fun suggestion and I think everyone would have fun with it. Either way I will enjoy playing you guys. I just love SW and feel privileged to be able to play this wonderful game.

I believe you have identified the core issue, that different players may have different ideas about what kind of games they want to play. However, then you apparently conclude that there is only one person responsible for this issue. And conveniently enough I suppose, that person just happens to be the other guy, who is looking for a different kind of game than you do. Your idea about what kind of games should be played on Vassal, for fun games with less competitive squads is the "right" idea. Which obviously means that someone looking for a competitive game has the "wrong" idea. Furthermore, this person should also realize that he or she in fact has the wrong idea about this game and should therefore feel compelled to alert you before ruining your fun with their clearly deviant.. ehh... "alternative" game style.

I disagree. I see no reason whatsoever that "for fun" nor "competitive" should be some kind of default for Vassal games. To make sure that the game will be as entertaining as possible, it's up to both players, to before the game ensure there is a common understanding about how the game should be played.

In my mind however the greater responsibility is on the player to whom certain kinds of squads, within the limits set by the rules of the game, is not ok. I'd expect a player on Vassal to abide by the rules of the game, no more, no less. And if a player would want additional restrictions, outside the rules, for how a game should be played, it would seem helpful if such a player spoke up.