The battlefield order is not the same as in the game!

In the game I've just set up the teams in a way that both teams are able to work together in an equal way.

Both teams have 2 players that have a follow up turn, which means that they could potentially move their armies together with their teammate the turn before. It's difficult to organise, but if 2 players march together the other team usually has a hard time beating that army.

The order in the battlefield is no order really. Preferably we look at when people are able to play their turn, but my experience is that it doesn't usually work out that perfectly. For example: Wodokan, Marky and Blackcat play between 20:00 and 00:00. The chance that all 3 of them actually play their turn in those 4 hours is not likely to happen. I'd rather have 1 of them later in the list. 

Also I work shifts so every week I got different times when I play my turns. In the end if the game is fun for everyone the turns will come 'rather' quick. Were still wtih 8 people so it will take a while either way.

OK, saw you are going back to the teams anyway - joined now in slot number 3.

Hi,
Has there been a change in the team assignment? Looks like I should be in team 1, but all slots for team 1 are already taken.

Yeah auto resurgence has to be off. So i will restart.

I'll come back to the teams when im on my pc. This ipad i horrible to work with.

I guess you are going to change the teams in the game that you've made then? I assume you still want us to slot ourselves in in Battlefield order, right?

I'd prefer no resurgence for heroes since the only time it's really going to matter is if you beat another player in auto-combat while losing a hero. In other words, it becomes "win more" and increases the chance that the winning player will get even further ahead than they should have.

I guess it will also happen if a hostile neutral stack attacks you, kills a hero, and then loses, but that's a very rare occurrence.

edit: teams look fine to me.

What about hero resurgence? It's on for autocombat atm, isn't off at all times a more customary option here? (noticed it was always off in my other games iirc :-) )

Ive set up the teams in order that both teams have 2 players thatcould potentially have their armies moves together. 

Cosmic events are on, forgot about them tbh. Empire quests off is more an experiment.

Oh bloody hell. I thought I made teams, but apparently didnt save them.

Team 1: kwibus, mental, chiveicrook, wodokan
Team 2: mauve, markymark, the ranger, blackcat.

I think the ranger isnew Too?

Let me know your opinions.

Done.

@Wodokan: Join the game using the game name and password, then click on the third slot to move to that position.

@MARKYMARK: Please join the game again and move yourself to the fourth slot.

Regardless of how the teams end up if we decide to change things, we should probably be in the following slots in order to reduce the amount of time we will most likely be waiting between turns. In an 8 player game don't expect to be playing a turn every day or two, but it helps to cut down on the down time as much as possible.

Turn Order (Same as at the top of the page; listed here again for new players who are unfamiliar with The Battlefield)

1. Kwibus
2. THE RANGER
3. Wodokan
4. MARKYMARK
5. BLACKCAT
6. DreadReapr
7. chiveicrook
8. mauvebutterfly

For what it's worth, I would also be in favour of a level 15 hero cap.

Why turn Empire Quests off? Is that to prevent someone from getting ahead early and getting even more bonuses to snowball with? I don't mind, just curious.

Also, you didn't mention Cosmic Events. Will they be enabled? They seem to be much more of a random factor than anything else, although they can really swing things one way or the other. I did get the planetary alignment event that instantly finishes your current research a turn after I started working on my T4 unit research in one game. That's probably my least favourite cosmic event though. The others don't seem too bad.

If the teams set up in the game client follow the recommended playtimes here, then the teams are as follows:

Kwibus                1
THE RANGER        2
Wodokan             2
MARKYMARK         1
BLACKCAT            1
DreadReapr          2
chiveicrook          2
mauvebutterfly     1

I like the turn distribution on this, alternating 2 people from each team at a time.

Hi, Sorry - but where do I find which team to join?

Name: 4 vs 4 NO PRO
pw: NO pro

settings: Large Continents map, with very low water settings and very low diggable/undiggable walls.
Starting town: Outpost
Starting units: Medium
Cities: None
Starting distance: Far
Roads: Few
All other settings at average.

NO SEALS AND NO UNIFIER.

Defender strength: Strong
Number of heroes: 3
Maximum hero level: 20 (I prefer 15)
Random heroes doesn't match race.
Empire quests: off


All these things are still up for debate. If by populair demand people prefer a different settings then I will change it.

Also people join the team you are assigned too.

We are using the balance mod. I completely forgot to mention it as I only play with it.
I hope this doesn't cause any issues.

I've made teams with the knowledge I have right now. Please have a look at it and if you guys see something fishy let me know.

It's ofcourse not 100% important that it's 100% balanced, but my guess is there is quite a bit of difference in skill here and we don't want a walkover game don't we?

I'm happy with all. Say easy which Team i can Play:-)

FYI, I'm (practically) a total newbie :-)

I'm not too familiar with many of the players here, but I would definitely recommend putting me and DreadReapr on separate teams. It's kind of funny since we are on the same team in the 2v2 tournament at the moment.

I don't consider myself to be a good player, but I guess that's relative. I have lost every single tournament match of every tournament that I participated in. On the other hand, I do very well in FFA games when other people attack each other all game and leave me alone to spam cities. It's a bit of an ego boost to know that a player I enjoy playing with considers me to be a good player though, so thanks for that.

Excepting the 2v2 tournament, where out of respect for my teammate I try to have some semblance of strategy, I always go to random.org to determine my race, class, and specializations, so how good I am will largely depend on what I end up with. I'd say my summon classes (druid, sorcerer, necromancer) are much stronger than my production classes. I've also been experimenting with a lot of the specializations that are considered to be weaker (namely earth magic and partisan) so I could deliberately do stuff like that if you want me to instead of just deciding my specializations randomly.

just the second game I am playing via battlefield. In the only other one, I was probably the least qualified player of the lot. I do have some experience playing random PBEMs via the inbuilt system, and won the occasional game there. Does that help?

I like an balanced game, but don't really know all of you to balance this game properly. What I do know.

Dreadrpr aka mental: good
Mauve: good
Kwibus: average/good

Id love input from all of you to balanve this. In about 12 hours Im able to set the game up, then there will be atleast 3-4 days before it starts to balance the teams and for the teams to discuss possible race/class choices or start location choices etc.