The Great War

[thelord]

This link? http://www.conquerclub.com/player.php?gn=&gs%5B%5D=W&mp%5B%5D=190&mp%5B%5D=18&mp%5B%5D=143&mp%5B%5D=52&mp%5B%5D=183&mp%5B%5D=159&pt%5B%5D=N&pt%5B%5D=Y&to=&lb=&p1=&p2=&p3=&p4=&order=D&submit=Search&uid=98173&mode=find

[DoomYoshi]

Fixed now

[Dukasaur]

A new freemium-friendly tournament:

show: the brutalization of belgium

[iAmCaffeine]

I wouldn't say that tournament sounds friendly for anyone.

[t4mcr53s2]

dean00

[Dukasaur]

The first great French victory

show: Marne

[Donelladan]

I saw that on the tournament The Brutalization of Belgium, one of the round will include escalating AND trench at the same time
Just wondering, as the bug with extra high amount of troops been fixed ? Or are we gonna play an unplayable game if it last long?

[Dukasaur]

I saw that on the tournament The Brutalization of Belgium, one of the round will include escalating AND trench at the same time
Just wondering, as the bug with extra high amount of troops been fixed ? Or are we gonna play an unplayable game if it last long?

It has a 20-round limit to make sure that doesn't happen.

[Fewnix]

This might prove interesting to tourney folk.

The First World War in 261 weeks is originally a Dutch podcast by Tom Tacken (http://www.veertienachttien.nl), translated by Peter Veltman.

Every week of the war a new character, introduced by the main events of that particular week. The series will run from 28 June 2014 (shooting at Sarajevo) till 28 June 2019 (Treaty of Versailles).

RSS-feed Podbean for your podcatcher: http://thefirstworldwarin261weeks.podbean.com/feed/

Available in iTunes and Stitcher (thanks for reviewing).

http://thefirstworldwarin261weeks.com/

[Dukasaur]

This might prove interesting to tourney folk.

The First World War in 261 weeks is originally a Dutch podcast by Tom Tacken (http://www.veertienachttien.nl), translated by Peter Veltman.

Every week of the war a new character, introduced by the main events of that particular week. The series will run from 28 June 2014 (shooting at Sarajevo) till 28 June 2019 (Treaty of Versailles).

RSS-feed Podbean for your podcatcher: http://thefirstworldwarin261weeks.podbean.com/feed/

Available in iTunes and Stitcher (thanks for reviewing).

http://thefirstworldwarin261weeks.com/

Thanks, Fewnix!

[denominator]

This might prove interesting to tourney folk.

The First World War in 261 weeks is originally a Dutch podcast by Tom Tacken (http://www.veertienachttien.nl), translated by Peter Veltman.

Every week of the war a new character, introduced by the main events of that particular week. The series will run from 28 June 2014 (shooting at Sarajevo) till 28 June 2019 (Treaty of Versailles).

RSS-feed Podbean for your podcatcher: http://thefirstworldwarin261weeks.podbean.com/feed/

Available in iTunes and Stitcher (thanks for reviewing).

http://thefirstworldwarin261weeks.com/

Thanks, Fewnix!

Agreed, that is awesome. I was just looking for a new podcast, and this one fits the bill. Thanks!

[t4mcr53s2]

congratulations to Blinkiddyblink; 3 great war stars

[Dukasaur]

congratulations to Blinkiddyblink; 3 great war stars

Agreed.

And with that, the second round of the Great War Guessing Game has been won by SilverWill.
http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=208144&start=75#p4600136

[Dukasaur]

Today we launch The Defense of the Realm Act. This is based not on a battle but on domestic political developments in the U.K.

show: the defense of the realm act 1500 dec 17 to 1500 dec 24

The Defense of the Realm Act costs 5 tokens to enter.

For those who have been paying attention, we have in the last few weeks been re-aligning the "pricing" of the Great War tourneys.

In the beginning, we naturally put a higher entry fee on larger, more complex tourneys. This, however, is actually somewhat unfair. It means that people signing up for smaller tourneys have an easier path to victory and pay less for the privilege, while those joining the bigger tourneys face a double jeopardy of a more difficult win and a higher entry fee.

In the last couple weeks, we have realigned this, so that there is a higher entry fee for simple tournaments and a lesser fee for the more complex ones. While it may seem counter-intuitive at first, I think that on reflection you will agree with me that this is actually a more equitable system.

The Defense of the Realm Act is the smallest and simplest tournament in the entire Great War series thus far. With everyone trying to reduce their game load for Christmas, I'm thinking this might be the right time for a little easy one. We have accordingly pegged the cost to enter at 5 tokens.

One little feature that comes with this new policy is that the winner gets his tokens back, and some of the runners-up get some of their tokens back.

[denominator]

The Defense of the Realm Act costs 5 tokens to enter.

For those who have been paying attention, we have in the last few weeks been re-aligning the "pricing" of the Great War tourneys.

In the beginning, we naturally put a higher entry fee on larger, more complex tourneys. This, however, is actually somewhat unfair. It means that people signing up for smaller tourneys have an easier path to victory and pay less for the privilege, while those joining the bigger tourneys face a double jeopardy of a more difficult win and a higher entry fee.

In the last couple weeks, we have realigned this, so that there is a higher entry fee for simple tournaments and a lesser fee for the more complex ones. While it may seem counter-intuitive at first, I think that on reflection you will agree with me that this is actually a more equitable system.

The Defense of the Realm Act is the smallest and simplest tournament in the entire Great War series thus far. With everyone trying to reduce their game load for Christmas, I'm thinking this might be the right time for a little easy one. We have accordingly pegged the cost to enter at 5 tokens.

One little feature that comes with this new policy is that the winner gets his tokens back, and some of the runners-up get some of their tokens back.

Great adjustment.

I especially like getting tokens back for doing well. One of the things that I think we'd all appreciate is getting tokens for winning tournament games, but this is a healthy compromise.

[shoop76]

I think its another great idea, but again like so many things of late, poorly set up. Why are all these tokens needed to enter these tournaments? You are forcing players to play meaningless games (besides the tokens) that greatly inflates people's game counts. Games that I, for one don't enjoy and in turn is making me tired of this site. And now you are increasing the amount of tokens needed. Only the members that spend a lot of time on this site can keep up with all this tournaments or at least the games needed to collect these tokens.

Again, great structure and I can only imagine the amount of thought and time you have put into the organization of this. However, if you wanted more participation you should have made entry requirements for these tourneys easier. Personally I will not waste any more time chasing tokens, so I am done with these tournaments.

[Dukasaur]

I think its another great idea, but again like so many things of late, poorly set up. Why are all these tokens needed to enter these tournaments? You are forcing players to play meaningless games (besides the tokens) that greatly inflates people's game counts. Games that I, for one don't enjoy and in turn is making me tired of this site. And now you are increasing the amount of tokens needed. Only the members that spend a lot of time on this site can keep up with all this tournaments or at least the games needed to collect these tokens.

Again, great structure and I can only imagine the amount of thought and time you have put into the organization of this. However, if you wanted more participation you should have made entry requirements for these tourneys easier. Personally I will not waste any more time chasing tokens, so I am done with these tournaments.

I'm sorry you feel that way, shoop. Since you're one of the greats of the tournament world, naturally I sit up and listen when you criticize. I hope we get you back at some point. This project has been experimental from the beginning, yes. To some degree we are making it up as we go along.

I have to say, though, that it is precisely because I'm considering people's game loads that this change has come about. For me, keeping up with collecting the tokens has been the easiest part of this. I've joined every single tourney in the series, and I still have 30-something tokens left over. 11- and 12- player games on the specified maps almost always drop a token, and usually when I join those my turn only comes up once every 2 to 4 days, so although they add a lot to the total number of games I'm carrying, they actually don't hurt my current (turns waiting) load all that much.

It's the games within the tournaments themselves that are hard for me to take, because many of them are 1v1 or poly and force me to take a turn every day, which is sometimes pretty rough considering my R/L schedule. This is why I've committed myself to having some more small tournaments in this group.

We did originally project non-game activities that would drop tokens. This is one of the things that unfortunately had to go by the wayside because both myself and DoomYoshi became considerably busier in our day jobs. It's still in the plan; if work slows down or if another volunteer steps forward it will still happen.

Another thing to consider is history itself. The first couple months of the war were incredibly eventful. After that, things settled down for the long haul. For us, trying to replay the war in tournament terms, it's been a big challenge. We've had to "front load" the event. There are a huge number of battles to be simulated at the beginning, but there are fewer and fewer as time goes on. So, once that crazy rush of 1914 is done, there will be fewer battles to commemorate each month and consequently fewer tourneys. So far it's been seven or eight new tournaments per month. That pace will slow down.

Great adjustment.

I especially like getting tokens back for doing well. One of the things that I think we'd all appreciate is getting tokens for winning tournament games, but this is a healthy compromise.

Thank you for the vote of confidence...

[denominator]

I think its another great idea, but again like so many things of late, poorly set up. Why are all these tokens needed to enter these tournaments? You are forcing players to play meaningless games (besides the tokens) that greatly inflates people's game counts. Games that I, for one don't enjoy and in turn is making me tired of this site. And now you are increasing the amount of tokens needed. Only the members that spend a lot of time on this site can keep up with all this tournaments or at least the games needed to collect these tokens.

Again, great structure and I can only imagine the amount of thought and time you have put into the organization of this. However, if you wanted more participation you should have made entry requirements for these tourneys easier. Personally I will not waste any more time chasing tokens, so I am done with these tournaments.

I actually found it very easy to accumulate the tokens. Like Dukasaur said, create/join a bunch of 6-12 player games that usually take a bit longer to start, and have a longer burn between turns so that it doesn't stress out your game load too much. Then, in the short term, if you have a weekend or couple of days that you know you can move games quickly, join a bunch of 1v1s on the necessary maps. I'm finding a drop rate of about 25% in the 1v1s, which when coupled with the fact it's two players gives you about 12.5% chance of a drop just for joining. Wins seem to drop at about 50-75% of the time, so if you join and win you'll usually pick up a token, even in a 2 player game. Once you hit 6 players, it seems to drop for a win every time. I quite quickly stacked up 30 tokens, which is more than enough to join all the tournaments for a while, and as my bigger games start and finish I'm finding a fairly constant token level.

This might prove interesting to tourney folk.

The First World War in 261 weeks is originally a Dutch podcast by Tom Tacken (http://www.veertienachttien.nl), translated by Peter Veltman.

Every week of the war a new character, introduced by the main events of that particular week. The series will run from 28 June 2014 (shooting at Sarajevo) till 28 June 2019 (Treaty of Versailles).

RSS-feed Podbean for your podcatcher: http://thefirstworldwarin261weeks.podbean.com/feed/

Available in iTunes and Stitcher (thanks for reviewing).

http://thefirstworldwarin261weeks.com/

This podcast is fantastic. Thanks for posting it!

[Dukasaur]

Our celebration of the legendary Christmas Truce is now open for sign-ups.

Two things separate The Christmas Truce from other tournaments in the Great War series:

1. There is a full freemium amnesty, to commemorate the Christmas spirit. Free members will not only be able to join the tournament, but they will be put into their games even if they don't have slots available. This is a rarely-offered exemption; please accept it as a gift from Conquer Club and the Community Team.
2. This tournament will only regenerate for 48 hours, unlike the much longer periods used for other tournaments in this series. The first one went up at 2120 hours (9:20 pm for people using the archaic 12-hour clock) on December 24th, so the last one will go up on December 26th. Any remaining spaces can still be filled, but no new iterations of this tournament will be created after 2120 on December 26th. Move fast!

show: the Christmas Truce Dec 24th 2120 to Dec 26th 2120

Merry Christmas from the Great War team!

[willedtowin1]

Our celebration of the legendary Christmas Truce is now open for sign-ups.

Two things separate The Christmas Truce from other tournaments in the Great War series:

1. There is a full freemium amnesty, to commemorate the Christmas spirit. Free members will not only be able to join the tournament, but they will be put into their games even if they don't have slots available. This is a rarely-offered exemption; please accept it as a gift from Conquer Club and the Community Team.
2. This tournament will only regenerate for 48 hours, unlike the much longer periods used for other tournaments in this series. The first one went up at 2120 hours (9:20 pm for people using the archaic 12-hour clock) on December 24th, so the last one will go up on December 26th. Any remaining spaces can still be filled, but no new iterations of this tournament will be created after 2120 on December 26th. Move fast!

it·er·a·tion
ˌitəˈrāSHən/
noun

the repetition of a process or utterance.
a new version of a piece of computer hardware or software.
plural noun: iterations

show: the Christmas Truce Dec 24th 2120 to Dec 26th 2120

Merry Christmas from the Great War team!

[Dukasaur]

Our celebration of the legendary Christmas Truce is now open for sign-ups.

Two things separate The Christmas Truce from other tournaments in the Great War series:

1. There is a full freemium amnesty, to commemorate the Christmas spirit. Free members will not only be able to join the tournament, but they will be put into their games even if they don't have slots available. This is a rarely-offered exemption; please accept it as a gift from Conquer Club and the Community Team.
2. This tournament will only regenerate for 48 hours, unlike the much longer periods used for other tournaments in this series. The first one went up at 2120 hours (9:20 pm for people using the archaic 12-hour clock) on December 24th, so the last one will go up on December 26th. Any remaining spaces can still be filled, but no new iterations of this tournament will be created after 2120 on December 26th. Move fast!

it·er·a·tion
ˌitəˈrāSHən/
noun

the repetition of a process or utterance.
a new version of a piece of computer hardware or software.
plural noun: iterations

show: the Christmas Truce Dec 24th 2120 to Dec 26th 2120

Merry Christmas from the Great War team!

I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Are you saying I spelled it wrong, or I'm using it wrong, or what? Please explain; I'm really not sure what you're criticizing here.

[willedtowin1]

for Us Peons who didnt know the word well....lol

[Dukasaur]

for Us Peons who didnt know the word well....lol

Ah, ok.

[IcePack]

Unfortunately I tend to agree with shoop. This is something I would be really interested in participating in. However since tokens are only dropped with very specific game types, when it started I tried getting tokens and realized I was never going to be able to participate that much because the only token drop games were so far from my regular game selection, I would never get any unless I dedicated 100% of my pick up games to tokens and 100% of my other time on the games.

It would be nice to have tokens be more widely available / dropped on many game types so that even casual players (for a casual site) could participate from time to time without killing themselves with game counts. Then have higher drop rates on whatever games you have it on now, so that the die hards can go gung-ho and join everything in site with 100 tokens they've picked up. Allowing more people to particioate

[stealth99]

Guys click on the spoiler above, in Dukasaur's post about the Christmas Truce, for a link leading to an article about the Christmas Truce. It is a fascinating read and a story that we all should know, particularly this time of year.

There were actual soccer games played in no mans land on Christmas Day, with scores of the games reported in British Newspapers. Crazy.

Thanks dk for bringing us this stuff. What an opportunity to follow this 4 year great war, battle by battle. Interesting to see that when people at home received letters from their loved ones in the war, it was customary to send them to the newspaper to have the letters published for all to see. That was the way people got their news.

Incredible stuff.