Pox Nora Warfare! Let Blood be Shed! (Update 1.5)

Hello everyone!
I know things are in a lull right now while we await the change on the horizon so I came up with a little game for us to pass the time.

THE RULES
1. Players must sign up for a faction. They will fight for that faction and that faction only. Split decks are not permitted. Split FACTIONS (Stitched, Kanen, Leoss, etc) are not permitted.

2. Faction warriors must be completely FF. Limited and Legendary runes are not permitted. (This should be an accessible event for players of any level, as well as leveling out the playing field slightly). Players can also join at any point, but once they choose a faction they are committed to it.

3. Each faction will elect a general. The general will serve in the capacity as a final decision maker for attacking territories. Beating a general in a match counts as three points rather than the normal one point unless two generals or a lieutenant and a general fight. Highly skilled players will be deemed lieutenants, this will need to be done by a majority consensus. Limited league is automatic lieutenant. These ranks are essentially a drawback since this game will be driven by wins in an invaded territory. You may only invade an adjacent territory. Generals should focus more on defense, rather than offense. They should also try and fight other generals and/or lieutenants to keep things fair.

4. At the end of the warring period, the winner will be decided by majority control of Poxanthruru.

5. Have fun! No tryhards are welcome, this should be a fun little war to build morale prior to revamp. It should not be an ego contest.

HOW IT WORKS
The game will move forward by rounds. Generals will each determine a territory to invade. Faction warriors must challenge the defending faction for invasions. The defending faction MUST produce defenders or the territory will be forfeited automatically. If a faction wins at least X (I haven't decided on the number) amount of times during a round they will take the territory. Note that you may need to defend much more than you invade, if multiple factions invade your territories. Controlling many territories will also be difficult as a result of this.

EXAMPLE ROUND
-General Apostate designates ST3 as the target for the round. Markoth, TinyDragon and Gedden belong to IS. The IS team decides to designate tiny as defense and the other two issue open challenges.

-Hardy, Iajabmaka and DmrBadGuy belong to ST, they must defend. Based on communication amongst faction, it is agreed that Hardy should proceed with their invasion, and Iajabmaka and DmrBadGuy should focus on defense.

-Iajab elects to defend against Markoth. He fights and wins; no point for IS from that battle. Iajab then defends against Gedden, losing miserably because Gedden is a cheater; IS gets an invasion point.

If a territory has no faction attacking them it's easier to maintain pressure on a territory to rack up the number of necessary wins. It would behoove generals to maintain cognizance of which factions haven't been targeted yet. If any further clarification comes up or there are questions about rules, we can figure through them together.

CURRENT ARMIES:

-FW-
General Igghi2
Lieutenant Alexispfp
Lieutenant phalganit3
Apostate
MortemDeus
Tanitl
LordRahan
NiGhtMaRiK

-IS-
General Axeraiser
Lieutenant Muddled
Lieutenant sassquatch
Lieutenant xCovah
Lieutenant Baskitkase
Lieutenant Markoth
JaceDragon

-FS-
General Taylor
Lieutenant oyo97
Lieutenant GabrielQ
Lieutenant h0spy
Lieutenant theravager
Lieutenant viktorino
Rorschach
bagoftrick
Boozha
ProfHulk
ImbaGosu
Shadap

-SP-
General NewsBuff
Lieutenant Neil
shivet
PaperSkull
Rokkushun
Zoran88
MrDeath412
Ultima0111

-ST-
General Moles1909
Lieutenant Hardy
Lieutenant Indijanac
Lauremoon
G0y0
Tomaszus
KingJad


-KF-
General DevilsRath
Lieutenant Burnpyro
Lieutenant Xirone
TinyPickle
Icehippo
Kansa
AlphaOzcar
Dammtuss
PTJimbo
Elvesrule

-SL-
General Nihilarian
Lieutenant movntarget
Lieutenant Schmacko
Lieutenant Borice45
Lieutenant Razzoriel
Bieshanas
redChapel
jenovah2

-UD-
General Agirgis1
Commander TinyDragon (Bounty: Lieutenant wins against this player reward 3 points. Rookie wins award 7. May Al'Mara save your soul)
Lieutenant RasielCZ
Lieutenant Gutsa
Lieutenant xxLordQxx
Lieutenant Reaper
Lieutenant Caine
SPiEkY
Amberite
MakarovJAC
BossJEK
dograge
RKane

 

The warmap for the game is attached.

"Desert Owl Games has also offered to grant select participants Player Awards. Who, how many, and the title of the awards have yet to be determined." -Senshu



ALL SOLDIERS, STAND TO!
The war starts now. What will happen is that generals will confer with their factions and post their invasion targets for the first round. Said general will elect attackers and defenders. These aren't concrete jobs, they're more focus areas for players. Attackers will declare open challenges in the targeted territory, and the defenders will defend against the attacker of their choice. If an attacker wins, then that's an invasion point. You'll let your general know and they'll keep track and let me know. I'm still unsure of what the threshold for invasion totals will be, I'll make the determination after the first round.

Generals need to assign roughly half of their faction as defenders, one of which must be a general/lieutenant and a rookie. Attackers may battle multiple times per round. Only one territory will be invaded per faction, per round.

I'll try and cover some more miscellaneous inventory:

-This event is for FUN, it is not a tournament. Please do not treat this like a tournament. It's intended as a fun community event to boost morale in the interim before the patch. It is not supposed to be a killing ground of noobs nor a ego contest.

-I have final discretion here, if I feel that a particular faction is growing detached from the spirit of this event then I'll make it known and address it. Understand that not all the teams are fair, and that there's an entire team of zero lieutenants. Newer players signed up for a reason, and that reason was not to be crushed by limited league.

-Deckbuilding: There's been a lot of questions so I'll just put it this way. No legendaries, no limiteds except for warbanners. No split runes, none. No split factions, and no split runes. No horn of order, experimental warspirit or otherwise. You should find more than enough of your own faction's runes. No obvious hate runes like holy mace.

-The map: I've noticed a lot of people complaining about the map. Please take into account that this is the first event I've hosted of such designs, there's bound to be imbalance. Some factions have more secure territory than others, but all factions have only four blocks.

If this event is successful, then we can easily grow it. That will take all of you people, the players, to help make this event notable and enjoyable rather than stinking of tryhards and bruised egos. That's all that comes to mind at present, be sure to mind the updates for round changes. Maintain awareness of this post for invasion totals.

Good luck, have fun, and die nobly!

TERRITORY CONTROL
IS1 - Ironfist Stronghold
IS2 - Ironfist Stronghold
IS3 - Ironfist Stronghold
IS4 - Ironfist Stronghold

FW1 - Forsaken Wastes
FW2 - Forsaken Wastes
FW3 - Forsaken Wastes
FW4 - Forsaken Wastes

ST1 - Savage Tundra
ST2 - Savage Tundra
ST3 - Savage Tundra
ST4 - Savage Tundra

KF1 - K'Thir Forest
KF2 - K'Thir Forest
KF3 - K'Thir Forest
KF4 - K'Thir Forest

FS1 - Forglar Swamp
FS2 - Forglar Swamp
FS3 - Forglar Swamp
FS4 - Forglar Swamp

SP1 - Shattered Peaks
SP2 - Shattered Peaks
SP3 - Shattered Peaks
SP4 - Shattered Peaks

SL1- Sundered Lands
SL2 - Sundered Lands
SL3 - Sundered Lands
SL4 - Sundered Lands

UD1 - Underdepths
UD2 - Underdepths
UD3 - Underdepths
UD4 - Underdepths

ATTACK TARGETS / INVASION POINT TOTALS
IS - FW1 - 1
FW - ST4
SP - FS3
FS - UD2
SL - SP3
KF - FS4
ST - FW2
UD - ST1

 

Ah, what the hell, I guess I'll play for UD.

 

Sign me up for IS

 

Ill play for UD

 

i'll keep an eye on this. no promises

 

You must step forward Dagda, your faction needs you.

Rise to the challenge sir!

 

GL considering a simplest tourney lasts already for over a month.

 

a point of clarification using leoss as the example. are the champs unusable at all? say i ran for IS, could i not use any Leoss champs at all or just not running a proper split leoss deck? and if its no split faction runes at all then what about the random split equips and such... ie soul reaver?

 

Just no split faction champions, as in champions from those split themes.

 

i dont fully get it yet but sign me for fs

 

I'll do UD

 

This sounds like a lot of fun, i'd like to enter for Ironfist.

are we allowed warbanners? (they are legendary)

 

Warbanners are fine.

 

I would like to join the Stronghold

 

Can we use limiteds that have non limited counterparts? (demon lich, norafire elemental, darkwing swarm, etc)

 

Sure, I don't see an issue with that.

 

hardy would like to enter for IS

 

I'll join KF.

 

I'll fight for FW