Blitz - Early Age, Handicapped, Silent Blitz

[chrispedersen]

I wanted to see if there was any interest in a new format game. Heres the rules:

Blitz: Every Saturday 10am - Noon EST: Turns blitz on a 30 minutes schedule. Daily otherwise at midnight.

Silent Auction: People bid points for the nations they wish. High bidder wins, or first poster in case of a tie.
Points bid must remain UNUSED in Setup. If you don't bid on a nation you will get a random nation from those unallocated.

Handicapped: Newbs with <5 MP games - No point penalty.
Ave with <20 MP games - 10 pt handicap.
Expert 20+ MP games - 20 pt penalty.

So, for example if Kristoffer were bid 13 points to play EA Ulm his pretender design would have to show 33 points remaining.

Modifications- Tartarians and Arcane Nexus will be modded out of the game. Other mods as per bg (Essentially increased costs for clamming, etc.)

Victory: Majority of Victory Locations.
MAP: TBD by # of players participating.

Comment: So what do you think? I like the idea of expert players being able to show newbies the ropes - and still let newbs have a chance of winning. Tartar sauce and arcane nexus is off in order to force expert players to come up with new ways of winning. Bidding should help to balance - and encourage underused (and perhaps unfamiliar nations) to be viable. And Blitz is just because I'm ADHD - I like to see lots of combat - as well as people that can plan fast on their feet.

So.. if theres interest.. I'll start off by bidding
Tien - 1 pt.

[sansanjuan]

Great idea. I'm knee deep in two other games or would join. Using up too much spousal capital as it is...
-SSJ

[quantum_mechani]

I'd love to play such a game if it could get started (I don't really care one way or the other about all the extra rules, but an ongoing blitz every weekend sounds great). That said, I'd say you would have to very lucky to get enough players, let alone ones committed enough to all show up every weekend. It's hard enough getting enough players for just a normal blitz.

[llamabeast]

Just 20 points for 20+ games! I would have thought more like 300 or something. Anyway, that's just nitpicking. I'm not joining any new games at the moment as I'm going away on a holiday in a month or so, but good luck on finding the players.

[Xavier]

I'd join but I teach at exactly that time every weekend. And I can't *really* commit 100% to the same time every week. Every so often I have to go shopping or do something with the wife on the weekend.

[chrispedersen]

I don't mind changing the time to accomodate. Lets see if we get interest.