Posted By tundrin on 02/09/2007 6:38 AM

But you will have to make a pre-ruling on the Standard bearer!

Posted By nycfarmkid on 02/09/2007 7:42 AM
I kind of like B, but with a couple of questions. Would the lower cost commander still keep their original commander effect? Thus having two? Should the lower cost commander also benefit from the commander effect of the Captain? It kind of makes sense with the theme.

Posted By Damien the Bloodfeaster on 02/09/2007 3:16 PM
I guess I like B the best of those three options. The only problem with the three is that I suspect we'll see a lot of stock warbands (GAS, Korducopia, Shadowdancers, LE Quad, etc.); it doesn't seem like any of them really exercise our warband building skills.

How about adding additional restrictions, e.g., 300 points, one figure of 50 points or less, all others must be 30 points or less, no max # of figures in a warband? Then you have an interesting dynamic of, do you max out activations, but have lots of easily killed critters, or do you accept that you probably won't have activation control but take creatures that are good at wiping out hordes of little guys?

Another possibility (which I was considering for the time when I had won an earlier WBC, but didn't have the time to administrate) is: all minis must be the same type, and if humanoid the same race. Thus you can do all orcs, all humans, all elves, all dwarves, all aberrations, all constructs, all undead, etc. However, you can build your warband from any faction (no faction restrictions), and minions/summonings don't have to be the same race as your thematic choice. Otherwise, it'd be 200-point assault, 8 fig limit, max 70%.

Posted By Damien the Bloodfeaster on 02/09/2007 3:16 PM
I guess I like B the best of those three options. The only problem with the three is that I suspect we'll see a lot of stock warbands (GAS, Korducopia, Shadowdancers, LE Quad, etc.); it doesn't seem like any of them really exercise our warband building skills.

How about adding additional restrictions, e.g., 300 points, one figure of 50 points or less, all others must be 30 points or less, no max # of figures in a warband? Then you have an interesting dynamic of, do you max out activations, but have lots of easily killed critters, or do you accept that you probably won't have activation control but take creatures that are good at wiping out hordes of little guys?

Another possibility (which I was considering for the time when I had won an earlier WBC, but didn't have the time to administrate) is: all minis must be the same type, and if humanoid the same race. Thus you can do all orcs, all humans, all elves, all dwarves, all aberrations, all constructs, all undead, etc. However, you can build your warband from any faction (no faction restrictions), and minions/summonings don't have to be the same race as your thematic choice. Otherwise, it'd be 200-point assault, 8 fig limit, max 70%.

Posted By Faragdar the Wise on 02/09/2007 4:46 PM
B is cool. The +20/+10 points for killing commanders would make for an interesting (and fuzzy) dynamic when trying to evaluate warbands on paper. "Well, warband A is better than B, but A's commanders are likely to die faster, so B might just pull out a win on points."

Pre-emptive question. Would you be allowed to break certain warband building rules with the "sergeant" effect? For example, could the Champion of Eilistraee bring in a Drow Sergeant as her 2nd in command?

Posted By Faragdar the Wise on 02/11/2007 8:06 PM
Dave, there's a problem with the Snig thing. Though there are actually 4 3-point goblinoids (Goblin Skirmisher, Goblin Warrior, Hobgoblin Warrior, and Mongrelfolk), Snig can only use small goblinoids as minions. That means only the first two are eligible.

Posted By Nobody Important on 02/11/2007 9:11 PM
This isn't so much a vote as an idea. For section A instead of creating two warbands (which is fun an all) just build one warband but have it always look at the opponent as having a given faction. Call in "Blind Rage" and you always treat your opponent's warband as being a given faction even if it is not; to you that Mounted Paladin looks some some CE spawn from the Abyss and you treat it that way.