Welcome to Galactic Escalation Fall 2023! V-set 25 will be legal for play and we will have some new maps to play on than the normal list for this long form tournament. Open to suggestions as always for ways to improve this format!

Hope you all can join!

Rules: Each participant makes a initial 100pt team following normal squad building rules. For returning players from our previous GE tournament (Spring 2023), you must build a 100pt squad from a different faction than in the those other tournaments. Rounds 1-4 will consist of matchups between all participants in round robin. The 100pt team used will be built upon in subsequent rounds.

Important note: If you use a Reinforcements piece, you must submit your up to 10 separate lists of preferred reinforcements prior to the start of a rounds matchups.

Important note: If you use a piece with Rapport, you don't get to benefit from it in reverse. It only applies to mini's added in the current round and in the future rounds. If you don't have someone with Rapport in round 1, but add one in latter in round 2, Rapport doesn't apply to any mini's from the previous round's build. For example: Round 1 you have a 100pt squad of 25pt ERC's Sev, Fixer, and Scorch with 25pt Republic commando Atin. If you add in 26pt ERC Boss in and 24pt (because he does get rapport from Atin) Republic commando Fi for round 2, you don't get Rapport -2 for ERC's Sev, Fixer, or Scorch because ERC Boss wasn't present when they were a squad build. Likewise, Atin doesn't benefit from Rapport -1 since RC Fi wasn't in the squad at the time he was included. Any further ERC's and Omega Squad RC's would benefit from Rapport -2 or -1 in future rounds 3 and 4. So in conclusion, if you want to benefit from Rapport, add in the character with rapport as early as you can to fully benefit from it when escalating from round 1-4.

Maps: Great Library, Mercenary Base, Rhen Var, Rancor Pit, Achorhead, Peaceful City

Banned list: Nightsister Hunter

Important Rule exception for subsequent round squad building: If you wish to bank points, you may carry over up to 10pt into the next rounds build total. This is the only exception to adding 50pts in round 2 & 3, giving you up to 60pts instead if either Round 1 build total is 90-99pt and Round 2 build total is 140-149pts.

Time per game in rounds 1-3 is 75 minutes. Round 4 is 90 minutes. You will have 1 week after posting matchups to get your game in against your opponent.

Start date: September 27th (Wednesday). Please sign up/submit squads by midnight on September 26th (Tuesday).

Participants:

Mando
spryguy1981
thereisnotry
DarthMaim
Overley28
Caedus
N3rdSl4y3r
Darth O

If anyone else is interested in joining, please post below! This is a tournament that will take place over about a 3 month period. The tournament will take place over 4 rounds. Each player will usually have 1 week to get their game in against their opponent. Rounds 1-3 will consist of 1 or 2 games each (depending on player count), and Round 4 will be 2 or 3 games (again, depending on player count). Robin format will be used for pairings. Your cumulative score over all 4 rounds determines if you make it into the top 4 for the playoffs. They will happen in this order:

Round 1: 100pts
Round 2: 150pts (use exact team from round 1 + 50pts of new miniatures. You may choose to upgrade 1 unique character from the previous round to one that has a higher cost and counts as the same character, following faction rules, to be a part of the 50 additional points)
Round 3: 200pts (use exact same team from round 2 + 50pts of new miniatures. You may choose to upgrade 1 unique character from the previous round to one that has a higher cost and counts as the same character, following faction rules, to be a part of the 50 additional points)
Round 4: Challenger approaching! 200pts + 150pts (this 150pts is for 2 to 3 regular non-epic minis totaling up to 150pts). You use exact same team from round 3 + whatever 2-3 miniatures you use for the 150 additional points. You may choose to upgrade 1 unique character from the previous round to one that has a higher cost and counts as the same character, following faction rules, to be a part of the 150 additional points. The combination of 2-3 regular non-epic additional mini's must be from your squads faction or be allowed into your faction/squad via CE/SA (Fringe 100pt Revan and regular Fringe characters can be used in any faction).

I'm in too.

And while I'm at it, can I recommend that people please download the new version of the Vassal engine? During VassalCon we had a few people report some Vassal engine mismatches. It doesn't take much time to update your Vassal engine, and it'll smooth things out going forward.

There is no functional or essential change happening with this...it's just that it will get rid of some annoying popups and notifications. And at some point it'll be a required update for Vassal anyway (because of the system's requirements, not mine).

https://vassalengine.org/

Bump

It's actually more like a league. You play a game per week with your opponent. You generally have a week to get the game in. All you need to do is communicate with your opponent to schedule.

"I'm your huckleberry."

+1!

5pt gambit in round 1, 7pt gambit in round 2, 10pt gambit in round 3 and 17pt gambit in round 4

the cap is 16 activations for 200. so in round 4 the total will be 19 maximum since you add 1-3 more pieces to your suad. if you choose to upgrade someone from round 3 to 4, that would count towards your 1-3 extra activations for that round that get added. obviously don't exceed 16 activations in rounds 1 or 2 because you need to keep what you have and build upon it in further rounds.

Can we get at least 1 more? That would prevent Byes.

I added this important squad building note because it has been asked by a couple people and i thought I should clarify it now.



hope this makes sense to everyone. For people thinking about running pieces with significant rapport costs (For example Darth Traya, Lord of Betrayal), plan on building with that piece in your initial squad if you plan on adding pieces that benefit from that rapport latter on.