Right i have just sent out a game for
Grezecho, Hellgunner and CEBearsfan

Noobschool and Prgamer im just waiting on one more

anyone who is already playing fancy another game?

me!!!

I'd really like to see a link when the games over, sounds interesting.

Got into a game of the castle with 6 players and did not get a throne room starting spot. I assume this is a different version than you are discussing?

in this game, you dont start with the throne room, you start in 1 of the 4 castles and you have to protect the throne room of that castle.

as you said there were 6 players, you probably just joined an open game.
anyone can create a game with different settings and maps. so although there are common versions of games, such as strategic 1v1 on medium earth, there is a wide variety of games you can play.

I'm in

I'll try

@GeneralMac:

|> the flag is only two territories (throne room 04 & throne room 05)

My bad, I understood your original

|> THEIR "THRONE ROOM 4 OR 5" squares (territory)

as "their whole throne room bonus (I'm too lazy to check if that has 4 or 5 territories".

Have fun with your play testing! :)

@RvW

No Worries.

If your internet gets any better and you fancy testing out a game or 2 feel free to let me know :)

And me!

Just a thought, it would be possible to make a map the essentially dictated this style of play without having to depend on peoples good will. All you would have to do is give each player a territory(call it territory A) that wasn't connected to anything else as well as the flag territory. Then you just make territory A a -100 bonus and the flag + A a +100 bonus.

Sorry Cowmandude i dont quite understand what you are saying. can you expand on what you mean?

That would work except that capturing a new flag would give you a -100 bonus.

@Nudge: No, you would have to capture Territory A to get the -100 bonus.

@General: I think if you draw a picture it will help you understand. Just to be more clear...

Territory A: Unconnectted to anything.
Flag territory: Your flag.

- 100 bonus={Territory A}
+ 100 Bonus= {Territory A,Flag}

Everyone gets one of each territory.

This would however make it so the game never ended without surrendurs... Perhaps you would also need a game ender spot which connects to all of the Territory A's, and put a huge amount of neutrals there.

Actually to avoid getting +100 when capturing enemy flag you would need 2 spots.

Each flag consist of A-B-C

A is flag in play

B = -1000
AC = +1000

Capturing A yields -1000 to opponent without giving a bonus. (A could have a small bonus of its own.

have all B's and C's linked to territory with the large neutrals.

Also make owning all 4 A's = to 10,000 armies and you will be able to take out neutral to kill stubborn players in 1 turn.

"This would however make it so the game never ended without surrendurs... Perhaps you would also need a game ender spot which connects to all of the Territory A's, and put a huge amount of neutrals there."

uhm.. you're playing a variant, if the people aren't willing to surrender when they've *lost* then just blacklist them and make a new game, variants require honor above gameplay

I think I see where cowmandude is coming from...

F - This is for the flag.
A - This is a territory.

A = -100
F+A = +100
F = 0

I don't see the problem with this, though...

A <-> F <-> Other.

Once the flag is taken, the -100 bonus is no longer canceled by the +100. The person who takes the flag has the power to decide when territory A should be taken. The only problem would be if someone put a lot of armies in Territory A, but that is very unlikely.

in either case, it would make abandon/blockade/gift cards unviable in those games..

Sorry, I didn't realize the +,-'s would turn to bullets which I think took away clarity in my last post.

@Bakarin Even if they did, the player with the map will always be in a much better place. In fact its pretty easy to see that your better off putting your troops on your flag instead of on A

@Perrin To continue to expand on the idea you could replace Territory A by a set of 10 territories which all together gave +1000 but any subset containing 9 territories gives -100. That would make it less vulnerable to abandon/gift/blockade. At least it would require 9 such cards to effectively screw the system. This could be extended to provide protection from any number of cards.