What exactly is it you want from a 1v1 template sze? reading between the lines, you want to be able to play on big maps, calculate precisely, have lots of competative picking options, and open to modding. 3v3 using puppets fits all of those except perhaps the last one. Other advantages are that first pick and first move in a turn are not especially powerful.

Have you played 3v3 with puppets, what did you think?

Full distribution with a bunch of wastelands?

You didn't come up with that. Yep... It's been done before. It's one of my favorite 1v1 styles! But I guess it's good now that the public knows about this fun way to play. :P

@dead piggy
I played it, jumping around alts is not my thing. If there was an in-game mode that'd allow to fluently mke orders for multiple players I'd try it, but for me it's not worth the hassle. But you're right I'm trying to make 1v1 games more "balanced", or at least more similar to a 3v3 game. The advantage of that mode though is the fact, that almost every distribution is unique.

@NinjaNic
Good, please share games and/or templates that are viable.


In the meantime I was looking for a different map and I came up with East Asia and Oceania template for 1v1:
https://www.warlight.net/MultiPlayer?TemplateID=634988
Example game:
https://www.warlight.net/MultiPlayer?GameID=8514126

For now I'll focus on balancing those 3 templates, for Europe and Medium earth maybe I'll give some wiggle room for the picking stage, like giving 20 in-distribution spots and giving 16 picks total instead of 20. I'm still convinced that with good enough settings that might become the new standard for 1v1.

In other news, definitely one of those templates will be used soon in my next invitationl rr tournament.

Here's a 3v3 that uses all the starting spots:
https://www.warlight.net/MultiPlayer?GameID=8197516

And here's a (more recent) 1v1 that uses most starts:
https://www.warlight.net/MultiPlayer?GameID=8415603

Nice example game.

fizzer will never go for this.