Hey guys,

recently, there's been lots of complaining about the lack of new, innovative templates. It's so bad, that even CL features some questionable templates for the ongoing season. We gotta do something about it.

Therefore, I decided to host a template competition.

The rules:

- Has to be a 1v1, 2v2 or 3v3 template
- Has to be a strategic template (no definition needed, see templates on MTL for reference http://md-ladder.cloudapp.net/ )
- No Mods
- 1 army stands guard!
- Maps that already have strategic templates built on them can be reused, but a (very) different approach is necessary
- No copying settings from one template on just another map
- Up to 2 entries are allowed

The prize:

1500 coins for 1st place
1000 coins for 2nd place
500 coins for 3rd place

... and your template will be used on MTL or seasonal in the future eventually.


I will rate the templates from 1 to 10 and decide the rankings. For this, I will consider the opinions of other strategic players too.


You can submit your template like this:

Template name: French Brawl
Type: 1v1
Special settings: Light fog, Extra armies per territory
Example game: https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=24315678

Deadline is November 20th. Good luck

Edited 10/25/2020 15:09:39

Very good initiative!! I am looking forward to see some new templates!

Thanks for job you do for the community AI!

Great, so for people wanting to participate in that but not knowing where to start, I'll post some of the maps that have a decent size for strategic templates here; take a stab at any one of them :p

https://www.warzone.com/Map/27976-Svalbard
https://www.warzone.com/Map/28641-Equatorial-Guinea
https://www.warzone.com/Map/35283-Venus
https://www.warzone.com/Map/32041-Cyprus-Divided
https://www.warzone.com/Map/20021-Mercators-North-Pole
https://www.warzone.com/Map/11013-Independent-State-Croatia-1943
https://www.warzone.com/Map/10744-Pakistan
https://www.warzone.com/Map/9328-SaintPetersburg-City-Russia
https://www.warzone.com/Map/4592-Pacific-War-1942-climax-Japanese-Empire

double post for some reason

Edited 10/24/2020 22:30:30

nice one. I would also add -

https://www.warzone.com/Map/39621-Himachal-Pradesh
https://www.warzone.com/Map/39526-Romania-Strategic
https://www.warzone.com/Map/39159-Serbia-Strategic

- Has to be a strategic template (no definition needed, see templates on MTL for reference http://md-ladder.cloudapp.net/ )

So what makes a template strategic? What about templates that have potential but you straight up deny it's strategic because it's not `mainstream` across the community? There should be a limit of what is and isn't considered strat just because it's not well-established. Surely there's someone out there who likes to innovate new strat templates...

Hi Name,

AI mentions the word innovation within 3 lines, the MDL reference is simply to reinforce that the template has to reach a criteria that it's fit to be played in a competition, meaning its a playable template that truly rewards good strategic moves.

Copycats reduce chances of winning, innovation likely increases chances of winning.

For example, French Brawl won a template contest in the past but if I was to enter a template very similar like last seasons seasonal template, it's likely to not win.

Take what you wish from this logic.

Thanks

Yes, thank you Yaxvi. I can fully agree to what's been said.

I did not want to define what strategic is, because it's not easy. Let's just say that anything that is not obviously nonstrategic will be looked at.
Let me give you some hints, though:

- The game should be finished in a reasonable amount of turns
- Stalemate situations (f.e. 0 vs 0 income) should not happen in 99%+ of games.
- There are a couple of things that did not work well on strategic templates in the past or only on a few of them: Emergency blockade cards, Airlift cards, Bomb cards, diplomacy card, Auto distribution, army cap, commerce, changed kill rates, weird fog settings. For these to work you would need a clear concept. However, if someone makes them work it will give a boost due to it being an innovation then. So you see I don't exclude any of these settings.
- Innovations do not have to feature those crazy things. If someone simply comes up with a new concept of how the base income, bonus values, starting armies etc. work together that can also be innovative.

Edited 10/25/2020 15:09:50

I submit the first template: https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=24377350

I think i saw this before in more pretty

https://www.warzone.com/Map/15986-Kate-Upton

too guiromaish...

I'll post my favorite 2v2 template! (made by me)
Send me a WZ mail if you want to do a match on this template!

Template name: Macedonia 2v2 Dense Fog
Type: 2v2
Special settings: dense fog, "1.5 gift cards", 7 wastelands
Example games:
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=22112034 - even match up to turn 16.
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=22491317 - even match up to turn 12 or so.

Explanations:
"1.5 gift cards"
1.5 gift cards means that you start with 2 gift cards, but you must discard 1 card on turn one, unless you spend atleast 1 gift cards.
In some matches it's good to discard a gift card on turn 1, in others you might want to gift one or two territories within the team.
You don't get any card pieces for capturing.

7 wastelands
The wastelands are meant to shift the strategy somewhat for every match. There are 8 bigger bonuses around the map that don't overlap with each other. 7 wastelands means that minimum one of these will not have a wasteland in it.

General
Even though the template uses dense fog, you can very often find out where most of the enemy units are. Especially if they do a lot of revealing moves.

Some matches are more or less decided after picks. So spend some time thinking about your picks!

Question: If we submit templates are we allowed to edit them afterwards?

I assume we are not but I’m asking just to make sure.

I don't quite see the point. Just make sure the template is perfect already before you submit it. We are not in a hurry, you got almost a month for testing etc.

Thanks for the template lists @meld and quick

Template name: Cock Region WR
Type: 1v1
Special settings: WR I guess
Example game: https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=24431049

2 weeks left

Template name: Europa Magna 3v3
Type: 3v3
Special Settings: INSS, 6 base income
Example Game: https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=24426807

https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?TemplateID=1364698

Edited 12/12/2020 20:30:21