It's spreading everywhere.
Initially, they were just isolated flare-ups on backwater planets.
Nothing out of the ordinary.
But before long, the frequency of peasant skirmishes started to grow:
uprisings were taking place all across the galaxy!
Whether for good or for ill, we have all been swept up in its tide.
Begun, the Non-Unique Wars have!

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Starting on Saturday, January 2, we will be holding a new Vassal League for anyone who wants to play. This league will be open to any and all players, regardless of experience. The only requirements are that you have the latest version of the SWM vassal mod (version 20.5) installed on your computer, that you know the rules of the game, and that you have enough time to play one game per week.

League Structure
--Players will commit to scheduling and playing 1 game per week.
--On Saturday of each week, around noon, I will post the pairings for the following week. The deadlines for games being reported is midnight (PST) on Friday evenings.
--We will use a round-robin format, so that every player in the league will be paired once against every other player.
--League ranking will be according to the following criteria: Total Match Points scored (i.e., 3pts for a full win, 2pts for a partial win, etc), then by the number of Wins (whether full or partial), then by Total Score (the max score for any game will be 150pts, to prevent people from trying for something like a big 198pt overkill score). If players are still tied after that, then the player who played more different factions will rank higher.
--After the final week of play has concluded, we will cut to a Top 8, Top 4, or perhaps a Top 2 (depending on the number of participants) for a regular single-elimination playoff round.

Player Responsibilities
--Players will commit to scheduling and playing 1 game per week. (Yes, I already said this, but I’m saying it again!)
--New pairings will be announced on Saturdays around noon. Please contact your opponent as soon as possible after pairings are announced, each week. If you have contacted your opponent but he/she has not responded by Tuesday evening, please let me know.
--In the event that a match is not played, it will be scored as a 0-0 double loss if neither player has tried to contact his/her opponent, or as a 3-0 win if one player has taken the initiative but his/her opponent has been non-responsive. The match will be scored as a 1-1 double-loss if both players have tried to make it work but the capriciousness of destiny has thwarted them.
--Please do your best to play your game within the 1-week timeframe. Under no circumstances will we postpone the next round of league play for any games that remain un-played after the Friday evening deadline. (We will have more leniency during the playoff rounds, because fewer players will be affected by any potential delay.)

Squad-Building Format
--Squads must be composed entirely of non-unique characters, each costing 20pts or less. (That means no characters costing more than 20pts, and no Unique characters of any cost.)
--150 pt squads. Gambit is 8pts per round and can only be scored by a character costing 8pts or more.
--Regular faction and affinity rules apply (Fringe characters may appear in any squad, and you are free to use Fringe as your squad's faction, if you'd like).
--You MAY change your squad each week; in fact, that is encouraged. Get creative!
--You may NOT use the same faction two weeks in a row. For example: if you build a Vong squad in week 1, then you cannot use a Vong squad in week 2, though you could use the Vong again in week 3 if you wanted.
--The Restricted Maplist is in effect (all maps are available on Vassal):


Banned Characters
Due to this being an irregular format, we may need to ban certain pieces. Any pieces that we do ban for this league will be listed here:
--Squads may not contain more than 1 character whose name contains "BX". (So no BX Spotter & Sniper spamming combos...that would be a massive NPE for this format.)


Match Reporting
The winning player reports the match, in this thread. Please include the following information:
--The Week # that this match was part of.
--Winning player: Points, Score, Faction
--Losing player: Points, Score, Faction
--The map that you played on, along with a brief summary of the action. Be sure to list any MVPs or epic plays. (Don’t forget to blame the Vassal dice!)


Participants
adamb0nd
DarkDrakul
Darth O
FlyingArrow
Mando
Timmerb123
thereisnotry
urbanjedi
urbanshmi

Begun, the Non-Unique Wars have....

Please report your results in this thread.
For your convenience, I've copied the instructions for reporting from the main post above:

Match Reporting
The winning player reports the match, in this thread. Please include the following information:
--The Week # that this match was part of.
--Winning player: Points, Score, Faction
--Losing player: Points, Score, Faction
--The map that you played on, along with a brief summary of the action. Be sure to list any MVPs or epic plays. (Don’t forget to blame the Vassal dice!)

adamb0nd vs thereisnotry, (rebel vs new republic)
Week 1
http://www.bloomilk.com/Squad/221775/hold-the-dor
vs
http://www.bloomilk.com/Squad/221548/nu--galactic-alliance

Star port terminal

I managed to win 150 - 116

I was concerned flak shields would shut down my base 10 kel dors. But I had enough acts that most my shots this game were with deceptive. Plus, my strategy was to get adjacent asap, which negated evade and shields and set me up for sd40. I managed to come in aggressive and hold gambit round 2 while tint was mostly forced to hold his side of the map more defensively to keep away from the explosive dors. A few key twin attacks rolled low for tint, and a few key AOOs landed for me, tipping the game ultimately in my favor.

MVP: probably my chiss commander, who we remembered his CE the entire game, but forgot he was hidden on my side of the map and he never activated again after round 1.

This is the only ban. If you follow the discussion on the other thread, the Ithorian Commander and Talz Chieftain weren't deemed to be significant enough to ban at this point. If something emerges as OP (the way that the BX droids would've been) then we can certainly make bans mid-season if necessary.

And no more than 1 single BX droid (of any type) may be in any squad. So you can have either a Spotter or a Sniper or an Infiltrator, but not one of each.

That's how tint and I played it.

Correct.

Darth O and I are scheduled for 9pm EST. 3pm Saturday his time.

Week 2 Pairings are posted.

Please contact your opponent asap to get things rolling.

Reminder: you need to ensure that you play a different faction this week than you did last week. When you and your opponent reveal your squads to each other, you should each quickly check to see what faction he/she played the week before this.

** For clarification, having a Bye counts as not playing any faction, so you could conceivably play Rebels in one week, have a Bye in the next week, and then play Rebels again in the next week if you wanted to.

urbanjedi (3, 150, Sith) defeats Darth O (0, 48, seps) on Rhen Var


jedi played
http://www.bloomilk.com/Squad/221924/sith-150-nonu

darth o played
http://www.bloomilk.com/Squad/221861/are-you-thinking-what-im-thinking-b1-

I won map roll, and Darth O took the right. It was a bad match from the start, but he had superb positioning at the end of rd 1, leaving my only good landing spots at the top of rd 2 exactly 23 squares away (1 more than I Could batter). As he moved some of the characters closer in towards gambit, it left couple of nice landing spots and I sent in the cavalry smashing up 5 B2 on the way. He took to firing back and took down one of the riders in the sky. The rest of the round was mostly positioning. Next round, I had a really nice batter and squashed the bug, the BG, and the SBD Commander. He fired on vainly but the rider knew just enough maneuvers listing lazily to the left to avoid being shot down. The rest of my squad advanced. I then won the next init and took out some more B2s and the rider finally went down. By that time the rest of my squad had joined the mop up party.

It was a slaughter. The Quednak + Glitter + Shaper is a brilliant combo.