Rome Tournament; Rise of a Warlord

[Njord]

Rise of a Warlord

You have become a man, yet an unrecognized male by nobility, you are an inspirational speaker and have shown talent in battle. You've rallied a small band of brothers together with your limited funds and set forth to prove your worth as a military commander and warrior, following one dream and one dream alone; you will have your name carved in the stones of history, by blood and iron you will be remembered.

In this tournament, you will select a nation upon registration. This will be yours until either glory is yours or the bloody handed mistress of death grips you by the throat with an iron grip, dragging you screaming to the underworld.
You must carve your way through other neighboring tribal and civilized aspiring warlords.

Details

You will lead your chosen nation against other predetermined opponents. The first rounds will difficult and hard fought, your troop roster is limited and the amount of denarii you have is rather small. Upon winning and gaining access to the next round, your funds will increase as will the type of troops available to you.

The troops available to you for the round will be privately messaged to you and unknown to your opponent. You will not know what type of troops he has available either. This is to put an unknown effect into action, should a Roman know what to expect from a Dacian or what type of troops or tactics they will employ upon first contact? No, thus this restriction on information.

This tournament will deal in rounds, it will not be held at a specific day. This will allow players normally left out of tournaments to compete due to timezones.
Rounds will last a week and you will have that time to play your opponents.

Rules

• Limited troop choices in early rounds, elite troops become available in later rounds.
• First rounds are very low denarii, to simulate you beginning your career.
• Restricted Information on what units are available, you will not know what units your enemy has available and vice versa.
• One week per round. You must play your designated enemies in this time frame.
• Strict enforcement on troop roster limitations, if you deviate or break the rules, you will be handicapped by losing denarii for your next battle.
• Rules will change per round, to avoid imbalance once more powerful troops and higher denarii is available.

Nations Available

Julii - Last Legion of Rome
Scipii - Stella
Brutii - mcgzer
SPQR - Seleucid King
Gaul - Taruthin
Dacia - Maceman
Thrace - Demetrios
Germania - Doctor
Britannia - Legio Italica
Spain - Marion The Cantankerous
Numidia - Marquess of Shades
Carthage - Xavier Dragnesi
Greek City States - GeneralChaos
Macedon - Teo
Seleucids - Sith|Vix
Pontus - Xantrip
Armenia - Selifator
Egypt - crazyofengland
Rebels - Loki/Maceman

*Parthia and Scythia are not allowed*

*Signs ups completed*

Round One

Your day has come. Finally, no longer a regular in the army, you command a small contingency of men loyal to you by coin and oath. Your men, while not as stalwart or as trained a regulars in the army, show promise and courage in face of their enemy. A captain in your army brandishes the severed head of a messenger sent hours ago to the nearby hostile force, requesting their withdrawl from this land. Battle formations commence.

You will play each opponent once. This rounds up to four battles each for round one.

• Your denarii limit for this battle is 3k.
• No more than 4 max of the same unit type.
• The units you can use will be sent to you via personal message.

Brackets

You'll be referred to as your faction name here, not your username.

Julii - Gaul, SPQR, Rebels, Germania

Brutii - Greeks, Scipii, Macedon, SPQR

Scipii - Carthage, Brutii, Greeks, SPQR

SPQR - Julii, Brutii, Scipii, Rebels

Gaul - Spain, Julii, Germania, Britannia

Germania - Dacia, Gaul, Britannia, Julii

Dacia - Germania, Macedon, Thrace, Rebels

Spain - Numidia, Carthage, Gaul, Britannia

Britannia - Gaul, Germania, Rebels, Spain

Carthage - Scipii, Spain, Numidia, Greeks

Macedon - Greeks, Thrace, Dacia, Brutii

Greeks - Brutii, Macedon, Carthage, Scipii

Pontus - Thrace, Armenia, Seleucids, Egypt

Seleucids - Pontus, Armenia, Egypt, Rebels

Armenia - Pontus, Seleucids, Egypt, Rebels

Egypt - Seleucids, Numidia, Armenia, Pontus

Thrace - Macedon, Dacia, Pontus, Rebels

Numidia - Spain, Carthage, Egypt, Rebels

Rebels - SPQR, Julii, Dacia, Britannia, Thrace, Seleucids, Armenia, Numidia.

You lads can start playing your games once you have received your army list, I'll give until next Saturday (march 7th) for round one games to be played.

Please save all of your games and label them correctly, as I'll want you to send them to me via email.
Once you've played all four games, post up the results.

[Xavier Dragnesi]

Sounds good. I like the idea. I shall join as Carthage.

[|Sith|viX]

And I shall join as the selucids

[Selifator]

I'll join as Armenia.

[Stella]

I'll join as the Scipii Romans

[Teo]

Sign me in as Macedon please.

[Legio_Italica]

Ill take Britannia

[Lancy]

Neat idea, i'll take Numidia

[Darth Roxas]

Im in, ill be the Julii

[Xantrip]

This sounds like fun. I'll take Pontus.

BTW, my online name will be Phylactery. I have my reasons.

[mcgzer]

I'm in too, and I'll go as the Brutii

[Doctor]

Sounds really fun I will take Germania.

[|Sith|10|Darklord_Max]

Good luck teo and vix. if u can cope with that timeframe ill be impressed. dont rely on them to make an appointment and just go straight for em. PM , Xfire, doesnt matter. just set a date as early as u can. Have fun and kick ass. and no more i-had-to-go-to-bed excuses for losing.

[Njord]

I may have to extend the time frame due to the matches per player. But we'll see how it flows.

Nice turn out so far, I'm impressed. Although the lack of barbarians disturbs me, giving the money level and unit restrictions.

I'll be using one of the barbarians if we don't have enough sign ups, if we have too many I'll consider allowing SPQR, Parthia or Scythia.

[crazyofengland]

I think Egypt would be good for me.

[Demetrios of Messene]

Count me in with Thrace.

[Seleucid king]

well i'll be dacia but if it comes available i'll switch to SPQR. k?

[Njord]

I have a feeling Maceman will want Dacia and as neither him nor cluny have been online yet, I'll open SPQR to you.

[Taruthin]

I would like to register with gaul please.

[Seleucid king]

I have a feeling Maceman will want Dacia and as neither him nor cluny have been online yet, I'll open SPQR to you.

sweet! thanks!