Allegiances (Team Game, Experimental - PLAYING)

[Thrawn]

TEAMS:

1 - Shovah32, Micah
2 - Tromper, Folket
3 - Baalz, Thrawn
4 - DrPraetorius, Burnsaber

Do we want to random the themes, or engage a bid/draft process? I'm fine with bid/draft, but I've never hosted one, so someone with more experience will have to run that part of the game.

[Thrawn]

The patch sounds sweet, Kris...

[Burnsaber]

Yee-haw! Wih DrPraetorious at my side, I.. oh.. WE can't lose!

I'm not sure if we need to bid. The teams look quite balanced to me. But, two questions.

1) Do we get some to familiarize ourselves? I might end up with a nation I haven't played so much with (for example last time I played Arco or Man was in Dom:PPP). Couple of days should be enough. If people are eager to start I'm sure that we could come to an agreement with DrPraetorius where he plays something I'm not familiar with.

2) What are the victory conditions? The usual "others quit" or something else? I think capitol VP's should be in the spirit of this experiment.

[Shovah32]

I like the sound of randomly assigning the themes so thats where my vote is.

Welcome, Micah.

[Baalz]

Yeah, lets just random them and get it going. Looks like I'll have to wait for another game to enact my revenge on K.

[Thrawn]

Random it is. Posting in a bit...

[Shovah32]

Is a bit over yet?!?!?!

sorry...

[Thrawn]

Yes! It's over!

TEAMS:

Team 1 - Shovah32, Micah
The Briny Deeps - R'lyeh, Atlantis, Oceania

Team 2 - Tromper, Folket
The Eastern Empire - Arcoscephale, Pythium, Pangaea

Team 3 - Baalz, Thrawn
The Western Empire - Ulm, Ermor, Marignon

Team 4 - DrPraetorius, Burnsaber
The Fiery South - Abysia, Machaka, Mictlan

So, here's how I did this, if anyone's interested. I didn't use my random roll app like last time, since we had two variables. I got real complicated and put the numbers 1-4 on pieces of paper in a cup. Then numbers 1-7 in a second cup (actually, it was a coffee mug, but who's checking?).

I drew from the cup, which gave me the team. Then drew from the mug, which gave me the theme.

I was worried we might end up without a water team after we had made the map with water provinces, but they were actually the first theme drawn.

So, discuss with your teammate which of the three nations in your new theme you want to play.

I'll post the above info on the first page, as well as the game settings and victory conditions (though, it's going to be pretty standard). Everybody can weigh in on those options if they'd like.

We're going to use llamabeast's PBEM server, which makes things much easier (at least for me).

We should be ready for Pretenders soon! Can't wait to get started!

[Thrawn]

Teams, post your nation choices when you figure them out.

[Shovah32]

How much water is on this map, by the way?