EB Online Tournement Battle Report Thread

[vartan]

1. No more chevrons (I've been convinced by NeoSpartan).

2. Elephant cost cut roughly in half to allow elephants to be actually used while keeping with historical armies.

@1: I guess that's not a bad idea.

@2: If you have 100 elephants that cost 10.000 mnai, cutting down the cost of those elephants to 5.000 and changing the unit size to 50 is a far better idea IMHO than having a so-called 'elephant fund'. Why? Because this way, you don't need budget imbalances (where one player has greater fund than another).

I agree with here, however if we are going to go through this, let's not alter the EDU, let's just go with the easier way, giving them 5000 mnai should do the job as you wrote. If someone cheats...well by replay we can check the mnai the cheater spent.

My idea is that we shouldn't make the rules faction based, but culture... for example:

Western Hellenic factions: AS, Ptolies, Maks, Epeiros, KH
Eastern Hellenic: Pontos, Baktria, Hayasdan (Not sure about that)
"Barbarians": Arverni, Aedui, Sweboz, Lusos, Casse
Nomads: Saka, Sauros, Pahlava (Not sure about that)
Western non-Hellen: SPQR, Karthadastim
And Saba which will get unique rules, I guess...

Also, someone in the past advised to not let the people to have more than 4 or 5 from the same units, I totally agree with this. It's boring, when you see tons of Pantodapoi Phalangitai or Cohors Reformata dancing on the battlefield. If someone plays with Romani, then has to understand, there weren't only legionaries and Hellenic factions are not just phalanxes and heavy cavalry.

Still discriminatory (see how you artificially classified the factions into specific slots?) in basis. If you are going to make ANY set of rules that is in essence two ore more SETS of rules, then you might as well (in THIS case, for EB Online Tourney) create a set of rules for each faction. In other words, research that leads to the best possible faction-specific rules is better than a few set of rules that restricts a few factions to a certain category. Otherwise, you'd simply expect one set of rules for the whole tourney.