Siegery - Cross MHO/CHE event idea

[shad0ws0ngs]

ATTENTION: If you are confirmed for the First Annual World Wide Siegery Championship Battle ... and by that I mean you have stated you want to do this.. PM me! I need to know who your character is, what your organization is, and who will be the champion representing your organization


Event: 23rd of THIS MONTH at 7pm eastern.

Even if you haven't expressed interest previously, PM/e-mail me.. it is not too late. We are getting a final list of who is competing together NOW to determine how things will go. If you have questions about the event, also PM me, and I will try to answer them.

Here is how it looks so far: Each group will get to choose 1 of 3 siegery mini's pre-designed by the GMs. There will be some way of indicating that this is your groups mini, like a banner on it, or something. I am HOPING to get these items to their champions about a week in advance so you can work on training them. Then, at the time of the event, each group's champion shall battle another group's champion until we have our final champion. At the end of the event, GMs will request your provided mini back UNLESS you are the winner.

Groups Who Are Competing: If you can, please donate some sort of monetary or item prize to the prize pool. If it is a prize, I'd prefera siegery themed one, but it's not required. If your group is new/lacking funds, don't feel obligated to do so, but if you are a well established and/or super well endowed group, we appreciated the donations. ALL donations will go to the Champion!

[Pumpkin Queen]

Or Dayko suggested it at the meeting. Either or.

[Whirlin]

I'd be interested at tossing the Paupers hat into the event... Although... I'll need a set of Siegery thingies...

Are sets for sale off the shelf at RTCF?

Confirmed Participants:
CHE:
Paupers (Whirlin)
Aspis (Seomanthe)
Silvergate (Katara)
Brigetta (Leelan)
Willow Hall (Seneschal)
House Sovyn (Eruheran)

MHO:
Faendryl Enclave (Japhrimel)
Landing Defense Irregulars (Jhynnifer)
Stormwind Hall (Jarvan)
House of Daingneach Onoir (Cosannie)
The Eahnor Assembly

[Allereli]

I'd be interested at tossing the Paupers hat into the event... Although... I'll need a set of Siegery thingies...

Are sets for sale off the shelf at RTCF?

there is a siegery shop in the landing, I think 1 east of TSNE

[Whirlin]

But... I don't want to invest in an S class siegery set!

And I don't want to write a siergery guide!

[shad0ws0ngs]

Begetting Besiegers! The landing's siegery shop. It is also where I would personally recommend hosting the siegery battle.. Here is why:

[Begetting Besiegers, Sky Arena]
High walls rise up to encase this open arena in a solid cover, muting the sounds of the town to a quiet muffle. Moonlight from the open sky glints off the surface of tall flag poles, their banners stirring slightly with the breeze. The arena itself is a circular stretch of scuffed dark slate, surrounded by a set of wide stone steps which lead up to an observation deck.
Obvious paths: out
>go step
[Begetting Besiegers, Watch Deck]
A sturdy wooden observation deck stretches out in a half-circle providing ample room for spectators. A carved ironwood railing provides some leaning comfort to onlookers while they view the arena below. The tops of flagpoles rise up from the sides of the deck and stretch up into the night sky above. You also see some wide stone steps leading down.
Obvious paths: none

It has the sky arena with a spot where people can "watch arena" or "look arena" to see whats going on below.. great for when you have a huge audience. It also has:

[Underground Arena]
Crude wooden benches ascend in a semicircle around a smooth dirt arena where old blood stains have darkened the ground in many patches. Lit torches are scattered about the room casting flickering shadows along the stone walls. A pile of dismembered siege miniatures have been haphazardly left in a corner. You also see a flimsy wooden door.
Obvious exits: none

There are 59 minis for sale and 6 cases in this shop.. about 35k per mini. I would recommend JUST buying a regular mini, not a keep, catapult, ballista and the like.. for events we tend to just do one-on-one minis and not a full game, as the full ones take FOREVER. The more you play, and win, the better trained your mini is. That said, a well trained mini is NO guarantee of winning. The Enclave's last siegery event ended with Greganths insanely well trained rolton against Fulmen's bought that day off the shelf blacksmith. It was awesome.

I would also recommend not including s-class minis as they tend to be OP.

[Jhynnifer]

If you still looking for people I bet the LDI would be interested!

[Kalishar]

Sounds like fun. I have a set of my own miniatures from way back, probably when they were first introduced. Is there any way to differentiate a S-class mini from a regular one other than fighting prowess?

I don't -think- any of mine are S-class but as I cannot remember that far back when I got them, I'm not sure.

[shad0ws0ngs]

No way I know of to differentiate. We've been asking for analysis upgrades and indications as to how good minis are for a while now. Pretty much if my decently trained mini gets it's tiny wooden ass handed to it in 1-2 moves, I suspect the other one is an s-class.

And I am hoping to get as many CHE/MHO to sign along as possible.

[Whirlin]

I shot some ideas around with Japh last night. Here's what I was thinking.

We can get GM support for this event. However, the GMs are busy preparing October events for CHE Spirit Night, Pauper's Haunted House, and a massive amount of other events. December is filled with Winterfest... another big CHE/MHO event extravaganza.

So, we'd be looking to do a Siegery Tournament in November. We would need to have preliminary house competitions to designate a champion (and backup) per house to then compete in a cross-MHO-CHE competition.

I'd like to request GM support for these events ASAP. But in order to do so, I would like buy-in from 5 CHEs, and 7 MHOs before starting to spam their inbox. (Ideally, 16 to bracket it properly).

For GM support, in addition to calendar notices, I would like to request custom siegery figures to be made per participating MHO and CHE to be used in the final tournament. Designs and siegery archetype can be created per CHE/MHO, and distributed at the big competition, this would also ensure an even playing ground with S-class versus... non-S class, and training of the figures, etc. Winners of the overall competition could receive Sets of Siegery miniatures from all participating houses.

So, Pauper's Hat is in the ring. Who else?!