War #5 - Rules

[deuce22]

Questions:

7.1 - if u drop below 6 battles, a player is "permanently" on support team? What if u win all battles next round and have more than 198 cards, do u only play 5 matches? Also, does the players role disappear, or can u distribute 6 roles amongst 5 or fewer teammates?

7.4 - In your example of 1 attack and 1 defend being attacked by 3 players, does the defender have to play all 3 defensive battles or can that be distributed amongst all support players?

[bripod]

Nice... You've effectively made this yet another Veteran Event...

[Jenkar]

Nice... You've effectively made this yet another Veteran Event...

? quite the reverse, in fact.

[bripod]

Nice... You've effectively made this yet another Veteran Event...

? quite the reverse, in fact.

Really? You just cut 32 players...

[ralouf]

And what do you do with the supporting team ?

[deuce22]

Nice... You've effectively made this yet another Veteran Event...

? quite the reverse, in fact.

Really? You just cut 32 players...

And added almost everyone else who applies in the auction to a support role that will fight battles for as long as your team is still in war. For newer players, this is a great opportunity to join war and understand what it consists of without the same expectations as a vet. And if they are active, they will be virtually guaranteed to get bid on in future wars.

Also, auction apps have decreased the last few wars, and with the smaller vault cheap players are going to be very important.

[Vineroz]

Nice... You've effectively made this yet another Veteran Event...

tbh, war should be the veteran event really.

[kev]

tbh, war should be the veteran event really.

I disagree.  See deuce's post above.

Opening post was edited with rule tweaks to address issues raised by will, torb, deuce, and others.  Q&A was updated for the same reason.

[The_Mormegil]

Seems pretty cool. I'm sad Strategist has no effective battle ability, considering everybody else can do his job if one wants to. I can see hiring an experienced player to manage Vault but making him Scout to win more battles with that role...

[bogtro]

Typo somewhere, but I'm not sure which way D:

- Battles are "best-of-five" which means that each battle consists of up to 3 matches with the winner being the first player to get 2 wins.

Best of 3 or 5?

[bogtro]

If you have 1 defender and some number of attackers that is greater than 1, can the defender change decks between matches (e.g. can I use a deck against one attacker and then a different deck against another attacker) or does the defender use the same deck every match?

[deuce22]

More clarifications

7.3 - I'm assuming support decks are "at least 50%" in-element, not exactly 50%.
      - how are off-element pills/pends taken into consideration for support decks?
      - for attacking, can you use up to 6 copies of the unused cards last round, or only the # of actual cards leftover in the vault?

7.4 - are support battles posted in results thread? If so, this will further reveal an already small vault. I'm ok with it either way.