Idea for an "SP Challenge" game

[sansanjuan]

Has anyone ever tried to create/run an SP challenge game? The game could have many variants but the gist would be to have everyone start and finish the same SP game (against identical AIs) in the shortest amount of time.

A few variants.

1. "Hand you're dealt" -- Where the game is set up with a fixed player nation/scales (e.g.) Nation "X". All players then see what they can do with Nation X against, say, 4 (identical) AI opponents. Again Map/pretender/nation/scales/"AI nations" and starting position for each player is the same.

2. "Roll your own" -- Same as above but players declare a Pretender scales before given identical maps/AIs and starting location. Again fewest turns wins. Only players that declared are elible for "Curtain #1".

3. "Stunted Rutabaga" -- As #2 except *no* declaring a starting nation/scales/pretender. Try everything. Could even be a follow up series from Variant #2 (same map). Make a case why your pretender/scales rock the casbah!

Certainly many will reload and replay bad battles (and that could even be allowed). Holler if I'm full of hooey here. Would not be the first time...

-SSJ