War #8 - Rules

[hainkarga]

not asking them for free. I have the cards to pay and they are willing. yet they are channeled into team life or something. open auction would still be balanced, you would have the exact same chance.
no offense team life.

[Vangelios]

It's so imbalanced when I don't get 4 of the 12 best players on my team

wel... 4 of 11 because I'm out

[Zawadx]

- If the winning team General is also a Master of that element, they will be crowned a Grand Master.

Well, there's actually a battle where the previous Grandmaster defends his title against the new candidate. Considering someone other than deuce will win war this time (weird, huh?), there'll be some more fun remaining when war ends.

[RootRanger]

I've heard from a very reliable source that the winning general isn't actually going to be a Master - nor is he going to be from the same element as deuce.

[Blacksmith]

Yeah, I think a traditional auction is more fun. But I think the current draft is more balanced.

Not to say more random.  I think the teams will look more spilt up this time. Simply since a team can only be really sure to get 1 player they want the rest can be taken before they get a chance. However I*m in favor of trying new things, if so just to create some variation between wars.

[deuce22]

- If the winning team General is also a Master of that element, they will be crowned a Grand Master.

Well, there's actually a battle where the previous Grandmaster defends his title against the new candidate. Considering someone other than deuce will win war this time (weird, huh?), there'll be some more fun remaining when war ends.

This rule was copied from last war. Apparently TrO's deal with this grandmaster thing, so I guess we can change the wording here

[Helston]

- If the winning team General is also a Master of that element, they will be crowned a Grand Master.

Well, there's actually a battle where the previous Grandmaster defends his title against the new candidate. Considering someone other than deuce will win war this time (weird, huh?), there'll be some more fun remaining when war ends.

This rule was copied from last war. Apparently TrO's deal with this grandmaster thing, so I guess we can change the wording here

Could've sworn we had changed that. *shrugs*

[serprex]

I've removed that bullet for now, as:
1. It's not within War's rules as to how War's success relates to GM's title (or: WM's have no sway over how the GM title is handled, so why is it in War's rules?) (or: I don't know if winning War is a requirement to get into Heaven, should I add that as a possible reward of winning War?)
2. The bullet is in a list about what teams get, & this is only important for generals (or: Generals can go find out how to attain the GM title somewhere that isn't War's rules)

tl;dr TrOs, get off my lawn

[UTAlan]

I've removed that bullet for now, as:
1. It's not within War's rules as to how War's success relates to GM's title (or: WM's have no sway over how the GM title is handled, so why is it in War's rules?) (or: I don't know if winning War is a requirement to get into Heaven, should I add that as a possible reward of winning War?)
2. The bullet is in a list about what teams get, & this is only important for generals (or: Generals can go find out how to attain the GM title somewhere that isn't War's rules)

tl;dr TrOs, get off my lawn

Spoiler for Hidden:

[willng3]

Hi, I have a question:

3.4 INACTIVE PLAYERS
Note that a substitute may not use ANY cards the player they are replacing does not have.

I noticed that this was changed from the War #7 rules to account for all cards as opposed to just Marks and Nymphs. How exactly is this going to be enforced? Or will we be going off of an honor system here unless given justifiable reason otherwise?

[rob77dp]

Hi, I have a question:

3.4 INACTIVE PLAYERS
Note that a substitute may not use ANY cards the player they are replacing does not have.

I noticed that this was changed from the War #7 rules to account for all cards as opposed to just Marks and Nymphs. How exactly is this going to be enforced? Or will we be going off of an honor system here unless given justifiable reason otherwise?

I expect it would come into play if someone had posted their cardpool on their War application and it was quite sparse.  Otherwise, I would expect this new inclusive phrasing to be investigated in similar situations as marks and nymphs are the hardest to get and least expected in certain matchups.  (I think the change was simply to make it inclusive and less singling out certain cards...?)

[deuce22]

Just a little rewording, but this rule in general is tough to enforce. It is there more for marks and nymphs (player A has no marks is subbed by player B who has 6 marks). All other cards can be grinded, so these won't really be strictly enforced.