[namad]

one of the biggest aspects of a team game is team nation chemistry... we will be totally removing that...

why not just preselect 15-20 nation pairs... and then rand off those?


in a rand game the nations are randed.. that would be analogous to rand'ing a team.... randing nations that make up the team would be like randing nations and also randing their pretenders or something


the main point of rand is you don't get to pick your team and you don't communicate with anyone at all or even know who anyone is.


having odd team combinations isn't really in that spirit?

no one will have "picked" their team if we just diplomatically organize the nations into teamunits before randomizing their assignments


also if odd teams are what you are looking for on purpose thats cool too... but if it's not maybe we could find a solution (additionally if we just choose a set of reasonable/fair teams and then rand them there will be no need for rerolls? rerolls aren't especially RANDish anyways)