MagnusofDregoth wrote:Hey, everyone (especially Will), what would the fighting at Ragnarok XXV have to be like to make you want to come?
The reason I ask is that I am the one running the battles and tournaments this years, and directing the heralds.
Anything I can do to make you feel welcome, I intend to do.
Tactical battles making full use of all available terrain. With the numbers Rag could pull, going for large scale battle-games where generals have to consider units, positioning, etc at least in a very basic sense would be a great start. I would likely try to attend for something like that. Everything else is pretty much available at any event regardless of group affiliation.
The massive numbers in the sardine can sized field of Rag's past really don't do much for me other that the initial fun of going, hey, there are 1,000 fighters on the field! Awesome! With area available like at the Pennsic site, you guys should have plenty of room to do a whole lot of cool stuff with it.
I really enjoy scenario battles like the city battle a couple of years ago, the portal battle was also fun. Mass battle games like that make up for a lot so I really wouldn't be going there focused on the "fighting". I'd be going for the overall WAR! I especially enjoy competitive scenarios with team based play.
As it stands now, I still won't be attending Rag. I had scheduled our vacation time to hit Rag. The girlfriend's mother lives over that way and it worked out well that while she was off visiting her family, I could be off hitting Rag. With the ass-hat rule on round sticks, I pretty much wrote off that event and so I've rescheduled things to hit Bridge Wars in Indiana in June, and Clan in New Mexico in July. I might try again next year depending on what develops out of Dag-land over the next year. There is still a lot of Dag in my area and a tremendous amount of Bel as well. I've got a pretty good finger on the pulse of both games and I got a "you're un-banned" email from Lycos so I can at least read the forums now.
Good luck with it Magnus. Hope things go well for ya!
Will