Italian Wars - 4 Alliance Battle Royale - ON HOLD

[kolu2210]

Italian Wars 4.0 Mod Download
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...n-4-0-lt-lt-lt
HotSeat Sub Mod Download
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...HotSeat-SubMod

DO NOT DOWNLOAD/INSTALL Italian Wars 4.1 patch.


INVITED PLAYERS ONLY FOR THE FIRST 5 DAYS!

Admin
joerock22
Coadmin
Jadli

Factions/Players
Alliances/factions will be randomized - players can trade factions within alliances


TEAM 1:
France - OPEN
Swabia - OPEN

TEAM 2:
HRE - Hannibal2001
Venice - OPEN

TEAM 3:
Ottoman Empire - OPEN
Naples - Captain Melon

TEAM 4:
Papal States - OPEN
Spain - Kolu2210

Map updates


HS SPECIAL RULES

ITALY IS IN TOTAL WAR. Any form of diplomacy outside of your allianc is discouraged:

- Every 5 turns, admins will judge which alliance made the greatest military efforts against the greatest number of other alliances. Florins will be awarded to the winning alliance.
- The primary consideration will be the number of other alliances attacked.
- Ties are allowed but thought will also be given to the significance of the military efforts each alliance made.
- The rewards are completely at the admins discretion
- A wash can be decided if every alliance made serious efforts


THE RULES
Read carefully
- Time to play your turn is 24h. The Admin may grant a 24h extension if needed.
- If you are late with no notification you will be subbed. Multiple late turns will result in a skip/replacement. Do not expect anyone to spend a lot of time on your turn. Once you have been subbed/skipped it is final. Do not ask to replay if you do not like the results.
- Teams are encouraged to share passwords.
- No exploits/bugs allowed. Refer to known exploits/rules subthread. Everything there on exploits is binding here.

Military rules
-One turn peace. You may only attack another player if they have already played their first turn.
- All battles are auto-resolved. Screenshots must be posted with: odds and result screens, mouse over the odds bar to show the ratio, the armies involved with their banners visible on the campaign map, unit card of siege unit (ballista/catapult) must be visible if used to directly assault settlement.
- Armies that are defeated in battle by a player that comes after them in the turn list may not move the following turn. This is to make it fair for people who are defeated by players that come before them in the turn list. Armies standing in fortifications (fort/settlement) when defeated are excluded from this rule.
- Heroic victories vs players aren't allowed (exception when 3+ heroic victories happen with no average/close/clear victories)
- No posting defeats of any kind
- Ships cannot leave blockaded ports. No attacking ships in ports using a game bug. It's not allowed to keep units protected by placing them in ships docked in a port.
- Only Second Tier (IE built from only the second level+ gunpowder building) cannons can attack Large+ Cities.
- Mercenary cannons (including ribaults) cannot attack cities. They are allowed to attack towns.

Agent rules
- Spies are not allowed to open Gates
- Assassins cannot sabotage. Not allowed to kill family members/princesses. Anything else can be killed with a 60% chance or 30% for other assassins.
- Princesses are not allowed to steal Family Members. They may marry generals with a 40% chance. They may marry other players characters only through diplomatic means.
- Merchants are allowed to eliminate other merchants with a 30% chance.

Settlement rules
- You may only destroy Temples, Guilds, Military Buildings and buildings that produce Spies or Assassins.
-In order to Destroy any buildings you must have held control of the settlement for at least 3 turns. Temples may be destroyed immediately.
- When receiving a region through diplomacy all units except 1 must be disbanded.
- Not allowed to exterminate settlements

Victory Conditions

Defeat all other alliances

[Jadli]

Italian Wars 5.0 is up i think, so you guys might want to try that out

[kolu2210]

Italian Wars 5.0 is up i think, so you guys might want to try that out

You guys? I invited you to play

But sure, we can try 5.0

[saleska2]

A few things I'd suggest:

• Time limit is 48 hours per alliance, makes it a bit easier for some and better I think.
• I would say greatest militairy achievements should be awarded. Someone putting up an absolutely great defense against like 3 other factions should be rewarded

if we use 4.0 it would probably screw up the submod

[Jadli]

I wasnt invited tho I dont have time to join anyway.

Sal's suggestions are reasonable.

Tho, I suppose you wanted to say "5.0", and not "4.0". I
Yea, I expect it would screw the patch. Just wanted to point put there is a newer version, tho no idea if its better or worse, as I havent played it. Would be good if someone checked that out....

[Ramble12]

Thx for the invite, but I won't be joining this

[saleska2]

Aye, I ment 5.0

I will join this, ill just wait and see if anyone wants to team up with me Even tho I dont have a crazy lot of time I just cant refuse invites :3

[kolu2210]

I meant it as 24 hours per player not alliance

If we wanna try 5.0 we do not need the submod

[saleska2]

I meant it as 24 hours per player not alliance

If we wanna try 5.0 we do not need the submod

I know, but with with 48 hours per alliance you can actually do the turns as a team and have 48 hours for it.

5.0 has like 20 factions and rebels, its probably interesting to play tho.

[kolu2210]

Just checked it out - it looks really cool, but it has a lot of much smaller factions. I think for an alliance based HS this will be better. 8 players is enough I think to keep this moving quick.

5.0 would be interesting to host as a FFA though!

[Loose Cannon]

Ok, I'd be interested in giving this one a try. If there is already a functional HS patch that has been played we should use that and maybe next time try 5.0. I've also got some opinions to express tomorrow as I'm too tired right now.

[SirCumfrance]

I think it would be fun,
I need to have another go at the HS anyways

[saleska2]

If there is not enough players we can always do an FFA or 2v2 or something on 5.0

[Loose Cannon]

Comments and opinions

There are admins and co-admins. There is no such thing as a "casual admin". The admin's job is to 1.Enforce the rules and 2.Skip/sub players when they take too long to play their turns without a proper notification to the rest of the players. With only 8 players this game is not large enough to require more than 1 admin. But if there is a "beauty contest" going on inside the game, you need an odd number of judges to decide things (one admin and 2 other non-playing people minimum) to decide those awards. And with the editing I've seen on screen shots lately here you're going to have to change the screen shot rules. Basically, a No Editing screen shots as the only way to tell how military efforts are going. And both armies would need to be seen entirely in the before screen shots. Whacking 1 unit with a stack does not impress Also, screen shots must be posted singlely and not in a zip or rar file.

Subbing in this game should not be a problem. Either member of each alliance should be able to play both factions. Either require all players to send their passwords to admin or have admin create all player passwords. That's what we did for the biggest game ever, Under the Dome, where each player had agreed to a specific time he would play his turn. http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...-Championship) I needed a big whip for that game. But 24 players completed a turn every 5 days in the beginning.

The assassin rule is normally 60% to murder other agents/generals not 50%. This will confuse people, please stick to 60%

This mod has very poor movement. You'll have to drag cannons around for sieges.

edit: forgot to mention. People need to put their location (city and country)in their profile!! unless you're the Emperor of the Universe. The GLT is in Valrico, Florida, USA also known as Kaitain

[Hannibal2001]

Sorry but i cant join since i dont have the time atm

[Captain Melon]

I am interested in joining as Ottomans or team 4 (Prefer Ottomans though)

[General Dragon.]

I am passing this one aswell.

[kolu2210]

Thanks for your thoughts, I will clarify the admins as one main and two to help with voting issues. Also will change the assassin chance to 60%!

Thanks for joining Captain Melon!

[KonigPanther]

I'd like to join as well.

[Captain_Jozef]

I'll take team 1, preferably as France.