Historic Battles

[viggih]

This is just an idea that I've had rolling around in my head for a few days and I'm putting it up here for anyone who wants to steal it.

The idea is a format for casting Elite mod Replays and goes thusly: You set a reenactment of an historic 40k Battle and see how it goes.

The only rule that goes with it is fluffy wargear such as Yarrick (Xenos
Power Claw,Bionic Eye, Aura of Discipline), Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka ((Power Klaw, 'Eavy Armour, Boss Pole)(Some wargear is up to interpretation)).

This setup can be used if the numerous wars for Armageddon are being reenacted. There is a lot of fluff that can
be shown through DoW2 and some poeple might enjoy it.

Names would optional but preferred.

[Indrid]

Yeah thought about this alot. We tried a Battle for/of Macragge in a 1000 VP game and it was going great.... until the game froze for everyone.

It's a really nice idea but it is quite difficult to arrange 3v3s with balanced teams, and then there's no guarantee you'll get a decent game out of it for casting.

If you forget about casting though and have a bunch of regulars it could be a lot of fun.

[Alexwellace]

It does sound like a whole load of fun, for example I would love to re-enact the Battle for Lyanden. 3 Eldar players against3 Tyranid players where the Eldar must have at least one Wraithguard or Wraithlord each while the Tyranids must get one, but only one Swarmlord. Same with the Eldar Avatar.

Or maybe the Battle for Macragge, where no Termies or Land Raiders can be bought but the Tyranids players can only have 1 MC each.

Steam name: {LOE} Alexwellace if you are interested.

[viggih]

Yeah thought about this alot. We tried a Battle for/of Macragge in a 1000 VP game and it was going great.... until the game froze for everyone.

It's a really nice idea but it is quite difficult to arrange 3v3s with balanced teams, and then there's no guarantee you'll get a decent game out of it for casting.

If you forget about casting though and have a bunch of regulars it could be a lot of fun.

Well, the idea was that this can work in all formats 1v1,2v2, free-for-all etc. It would mostly be the case of getting good representatives from a faction/commander and have them know the rules ahead of time

[Caeltos]

Yeah thought about this alot. We tried a Battle for/of Macragge in a 1000 VP game and it was going great.... until the game froze for everyone.

It's a really nice idea but it is quite difficult to arrange 3v3s with balanced teams, and then there's no guarantee you'll get a decent game out of it for casting.

If you forget about casting though and have a bunch of regulars it could be a lot of fun.

I still remember that game...

It was so damn good

[MaxPower]

I still remember that game...

...until it froze for everyone and not getting a replay because of the freeze.

[Tex]

This sounds really cool man

[Atlas]

....so redo the fight?

Heck you might even want to make some custom maps for these scenarios.

Which brings me to the weird tangent that maybe the game could use more game modes. Annihilate is there but just sort of... yeah.... and Free for All is rarely played :/

[Tex]

I would very much like for annihilate to get some love. It used to be a very viable strategy to kill somebody's base, but now its just impossible to do without mass tankbustas.

[Nuclear Arbitor]

that defense aura means that it's easier to defend your base right now. can they be repaired?

[MaxPower]

....so redo the fight?

Heck you might even want to make some custom maps for these scenarios.

Which brings me to the weird tangent that maybe the game could use more game modes. Annihilate is there but just sort of... yeah.... and Free for All is rarely played :/

Sure lets make a map sepcific for 1 hero/race condition only...sounds totally reasonable to me putting about 2 months of work into that...

[Nuclear Arbitor]

no. it'd have to be a normal multiplayer map because of what you brought up but with a particular theme, and maybe a gimmick or two in a different version.

[Atlas]

^^