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If the Great War is run for 2 hours each day, what time would be best?

12:00 - 2:00
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1:00 - 3:00
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2:00 - 4:00
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Total votes : 82

The Great War

Postby Jikanta » Wed May 14, 2003 12:33 pm

There will indeed be a Great War at Armageddon this year, run of course by Kegg. The Great War is scheduled to run on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday for a couple hours each day. (Thursday is Tournament Day and Saturday is Massive Field Battles day, so no Great War on those days.)

The Great War rules will be posted here on the web board and on the Armageddon webpage as soon as Kegg emails them to me.
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Postby Thorondor » Wed May 14, 2003 12:59 pm

I say go with 1-3. It's after lunch time, so people won't really get hungry in the middle of it. But it's not too long after lunch so people won't get side tracked with pickup battles or anything so they won't fight in the Great War.

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Postby Cidion » Wed May 14, 2003 4:17 pm

I picked 1 - 3. but the 2 - 4 would work just fine for me as well.
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Postby Legion » Wed May 14, 2003 4:38 pm

Wait a sec..I'm supposed to be in charge of great war...that is what I have been planning in the themes thread
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Postby Judith » Wed May 14, 2003 5:29 pm

2-4. :)
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Postby Jikanta » Thu May 15, 2003 6:32 am

Legion, you have 1 paragraph worth of theme ideas for the Great War. Kegg has an actual working rules system for Great War. So not to poop on you or your ideas, but Kegg is running Great War. If you want, you can talk to Kegg about incorporating your theme ideas into his Great War. You're already in charge of too much stuff anyway, you don't need to worry about running Great War too, it's a huge job in and of itself.

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Postby Kegg » Thu May 15, 2003 8:39 am

Legion, feel free to Theme away (and herald). All I really was working on was a way to balance the teams.

The Balance Method...
The Great War will be balanced by having a limited number of resurrections granted to the losing team (this will increase with multiple loses in a row). These resurrection point will be the inside each teams castle. There will be a bowl containing marbles/ball bearings/ tokens/something and a jar (narrow topped 1-gallon apple juice kind of thing). To get back in the game a ball bearing will be moved from the bowl to the jar. When the bowl is empty no more resurrections. Each team can have a gate keeper at the bowl and determine whom on the team uses the regeneration. I know this sounds discrimatory to new/poor fighters, but remember there will on be a few dozens regens for a team of 100-200 fighters, so most people will never regen.

In addition to the normal way of gain regens, by holding certain objectives (hold the bridge), retrieve the treasure chest, kill the enemy leader, certain scenarios will have bonus regenerations to be used for that battle.

Also, each team leader will have a certain number of regens to spend over the course of the day (maybe 100). These must be placed in the bowl before the battle has begun.

Finally, by winning individual events/tourneys, individuals can gain a small number of regens for their team, in addition to any other prize (bards tourney winner gets (20), assasins kill a special target (10), best costume (10), etc...). Like the team leader regens, these must be committed to the bowl before the battle has begun

Using the SpringWar GreatWar battles as an example after Numenor won the first battle decisively, Wolfpack would have gained (+15 regens), the next fight may have turned out the same (another +15 regens). Now moving to the bridge Wolfpack has (30) regens They really want to hold here so they could have spent some of there all-day regens to get to (60 total regens). Probably a win for Wolfpack. A self balancing game.

The cool thing about this is that there is massive strategy involving whom to kill (there best or worst fighters), how bold to be knowing that your side has reinforcements.



The tentative schedule I was thinking about was....

Monday... Unit battles, where units fight one another to determine the 3 best teams for Tuesday. Each team will be given enough regens to get there unit size to 50.


Tuesday... The Princess, the Treasure and the Sword Battles. Last seen at Octoberfest II and Rag XI. Three sided fights between Nobles, Pirates (or monsters) and Mercenaries. Treaure chest, * princesses, and a talking magic sword. One of my all time favorite battles.


Wednesday.... Two side team Greatwar, with the two top finishers from Tuesday being the core teams. They will recruit people to fight with them.

Thursday... tounaments.

Friday... Great War final.



Stuff at GreatWar....

Two castles..... the Numenor wood castle and 40 LARGE ROUND bale hay castle.

Large bridge... 6 large bale, 20 small bale bridge.

Woods/Fort battles (Hay bale fort in the woods).


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Postby TinMan » Fri May 16, 2003 2:37 am

I never understood why all the good battles were so early in the morning. After a heavy night of partying it takes me a couple hours before I start fighting any good. So, I vote for 2-4.
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Postby TinMan » Fri May 16, 2003 2:41 am

Also kegg have you thought of using half of the numenor castle for the front of both castles and hay bales for the backs? Just a thought but you can make them bigger and when the castle gets to crowded your more likely to be pushed against hay than wood. I also think it would look better.
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Postby Jikanta » Fri May 16, 2003 8:36 am

The Numenor castle is made up of two SIDES, not a front and a back. The gap between the sides creates the doors. It would be kinda silly to make two castles with the right side out of hay and the left side out of Numenor's castle.

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Postby TinMan » Fri May 16, 2003 8:53 am

oh. Well nevermind.
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Postby Nor » Fri Jun 06, 2003 9:19 pm

I would say 1-3 because its just after noon and best time of the day really I think..... but who cares
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Postby liliann » Wed Oct 15, 2003 8:58 pm

not that i am fighting or anything but i saw how tired the guys where getting as the day went on...and you want to make sure they are all awake and sober so i would go with 1 to 3.
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Postby Thorondor » Wed Oct 15, 2003 9:14 pm

And I say...BACK FROM THE DEAD YOU COME!!! :devil:

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Postby Elwrath » Thu Oct 16, 2003 10:33 am

Suck! A great war! Dang now I wish I would be there, alas for religion...oh well in a couple of years :oface:
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Postby Borric » Thu Oct 16, 2003 2:24 pm

I have 1 concern.

Great battles are fun, and the theme does make it even better, but the urge to win sometimes affect peoples judgment when it comes to hit taking. How many heralds are you planning for this event. Should their be a herald responsible for the same group of people. For example for every 30 people there is one herald who moderates only those 30....Just a thought.
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Postby Tobias » Thu Oct 23, 2003 11:31 pm

I'm gonna go for 1-3, because from about 11 until about 12:30, I was planning on eating :angel:
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Postby Owen » Sun Oct 26, 2003 10:55 am

L3GiOn wrote:Wait a sec..I'm supposed to be in charge of great war...that is what I have been planning in the themes thread


Who is running Arm 3? Realm wise?
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Postby Pickles » Mon Dec 08, 2003 11:44 am

Borric wrote: Should their be a herald responsible for the same group of people. For example for every 30 people there is one herald who moderates only those 30....Just a thought.


That's not the greatest of ideas because if they call lay on and your 30 people each go a different direction you're hosed. Even if a couple of your assigned people are turbo flankers (Like Snotbelly and Kryll for example.) Then you're gonna have to focus your attention in too many places.

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Postby Skeetimus Prime » Tue Jan 04, 2005 4:30 pm

You guys put Legion in charge of ****... :?:


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ok im done :angel: and I pooped my pants.


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Postby A Pimp Named Kabibbles » Tue Jan 11, 2005 12:25 am

if this thread is about armageddon 3 why is it in the agmageddon 4 thing? :armor1:
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Postby Galant » Fri Apr 08, 2005 4:02 pm

ok well this will be my first event. what is a great war? just a war with all relms or what?
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Postby arky » Fri Apr 08, 2005 8:20 pm

To my knoledge their will be no great war at Arm IV. This is an old thread for Arm III.
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Postby TinMan » Tue Apr 12, 2005 10:29 pm

Arky is correct, this is an old subject that was brought back to life. As far as I know there will be a Great War at SW so if you want to know more about that check out the thread in General Mayhem.
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