Dramatic SFB: Quick-play campaigns

[Wayne Power]

 I would be fine with TBW ending, and when able to reset and restart client, then I would be keen to enter into one or more of these new Mini Campaigns.     On Sunday, 21 July 2019, 6:02:04 am AEST, Francois Lemay via SFBdrama <sfbdrama at lists.mattnet.org> wrote:  
 
  Matt,I like your proposed campaign settings !All seem cool to play !Are you setting up the campaigns to be time zoned based for ease of battle resolutions ?
Also, is TBW dead ? Been a long while to resolve the Gorn/ISC FRD thingy although I've seen some emails re this issue ?Where are we at here ??
Its true that with fewer players, turns should move quicker  and battles as well.Thing is, its not the total number of players in a campaign that bogs it down,  its the lack of commitment from Admirals that bog down a campaign. 
You have an Admiral that seldom reply to emails to resolve battles or go away on a vacation for a month or so and not tell anyone while he has 3-4 battles to resolve [ hiring of Captains is a good thing here ! ] figuring on doing them upon his return is simply a lack of communication and commitment IMHO.
Or an Admiral is losing so badly he goes dark without the courtesy of informing the GM he would like to drop etc. is simply not cool.
Or an Admiral who has nothing better to do and make assignment moves when he gets around to it or failing to hire or fly battles until something better comes along etc.
Playing Admirals in these groups need to be fair to all other Admirals in the campaign that want to play quickly.These slow moving uninterested players should realize this and simply not join a campaign until they are fully ready, able and willing to commit.
I for one would like to know who is playing in which campaign before I join in an effort to avoid these slow moving Admirals. Call me selfish, its ok !!
End of rant.  
CheersFrank





   On Saturday, July 13, 2019, 06:06:04 p.m. EDT, Matt via SFBdrama <sfbdrama at lists.mattnet.org> wrote:  
 
 Midshipmans seemed pretty popular amungst the rest of the "main" 
campaign players. I'm thinking it was mostly out of a thirst for more 
Pow-Pow. As a result, I am going to open a series of campaign games 
geared for a smaller group of players. With the fewer players, the turns 
should go faster.


There will be more than one opened up.

They are geared for no more than four players.

Start-Years will vary between games.

Each empire pick will be unique per game (no empire pairs in a game, but 
empire may be picked many times across many games)

All will be 3-turns per year.

Games will run 15 turns (5 years).

Winner will be player with largest score, as reported by their 
empire-screen. (this is a weighted measure of fleet BPV, amount of 
borders, stockpiled EPs and income.)

Income and amount stockpiled for initial builds will be set based on 
time period the game starts.

Neighbors will be historical neighbors.


Some "wild card" games are possible:

- Invasion: Three players have no starting borders with others, one 
player has starting borders with the three. The invader starts with more 
resources than the others.

- Small Ships: For purposes of this campaign, only one ship assigned to 
each scenario may be larger than Size-Class 4. The rest of (S8.0) 
applies normally.

- Double-War: The players are paired up so that each pair does not start 
with borders with the other pair.

- Civil Wars: A variant of the Double-War, where each pair of players 
have the same empire (e.g. a Kzinti and Kzinti are paired up and have 
borders with eachother. But neither have borders with the two Lyran 
players.)


Those interested in joining, please email me with 3 empire picks and 2 
prefered start years. If (and only if) you want to be in a wild-card 
game, separately note which one you want and an empire pick for it. e.g. 
"I want to be Kzinti, Federation, or Gorn. Start year 166 or Y175. The 
Invasion game sounds fun, let me play a Vudar there."

--Matt

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