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dburkley · Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 6:40 pm GMT Post subject: Team Games

At the end of the "Trifecta" on-line game, I had inquired if there were any "team" formats for Dragon Dice. Aside from "free-for-all's", a "team" format is an alternative option for a 4 (or 6) player game. Such options exist for other boardgaming and miniatures gaming systems, so before I tried to "re-invent the wheel", I'd like to know about any existing formats, along with their merits and pitfalls.

Chuck had replied: "There was a team tournament at GenCon. However, people lost interest in it, so we dropped it. It really almost became a new game in it's own right. If you want to talk more about it, start a thread in the Game Variations forum."

So I would like to find out more about the GenCon "team tournament".
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chuckpint · Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 7:06 pm GMT Post subject:

Team Tournament – Here, a game is played between two teams of two players each. The winning team advances to the next round. In determining the order of play, the player with the highest horde roll decides if he or she wants to go first or select the frontier terrain. If that player decides to go first, the player on the opposing team that had the highest horde roll would go second, then alternate players from both teams for third and fourth. If the player with the highest horde roll decides to choose the frontier terrain, then he or she would go second and the player on the opposing team that had the highest horde roll would go first. Again, alternate players from both teams for third and fourth. Magic is also different than standard rules. You may throw friendly spells on your partner’s armies and units as if they were your own. If a spell would normally bring components into your army, instead they join your partner’s army at that terrain. If your partner does not have an army at that terrain, then those units form a new army. You may not cast any spells on your partner’s units that would bring those units to reserves.
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dburkley · Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 8:44 pm GMT Post subject: Team Game

chuckpint · Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 9:32 pm GMT Post subject:

Er, no.

While you can cast spells on your teammate's armies as if they were your armies, the armies are not combined. The bit about bringing back your teammate's units, is to show that they are separate not combined.

Basically the two players play independently as far as actions go. If one army is engaged in melee at a terrain, a teammate's army at the same terrain is just watching, it's not in the action.
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First Place at the first ever Daemon Dice sealed starter tournament.
Battlefest tied for first GenCon 2012
Single Race Champion GenCon 2008-2009, Sealed Box Champion GenCon 2007,2009,
My collection is 21,500 Dragon Dice, 20,000 Daemon Dice, and others (too many to count).