War Games

Since illy is a game of war, I thought it would be nice to post "War Game" of friendly contest ideas here.

Title: Clear the square.
Type: 1v1 -- Alliance vs. Alliance
Description: One person or alliance lands troops on a square, and the other person or alliance has to try and clear it.
Prize: Optional

Title: Take the town.
Type: 1v1 -- Alliance vs. Alliance
Description: Two people choose one of their towns, and then they try to be the first to raze/capture the other player's town. -- Two alliances choose a town belonging to them. Then both alliances try to raze/capture the other alliance's town.
Prize: The captured town. Anything else is optional.

Title: Going Hunting.
Type: Alliance wide
Description: Leader or person putting contest together goes and takes the attack score (not rank) of everyone on the alliance. Then the contest begins, after a certain date (predetermined). The person who gained the most score wins.
Prize: Encouraged.

Feel free to post other ideas below, just try to use the same layout I used above.   <img src="smileys/smiley4.gif" align="middle" />

Edited by Arctic55 - 27 Jun 2014 at 04:58

Title:  War of the Walls

eCrow did the fake siege challenge with Dark Blight. Can't remember the site offhand.

Title: Siege Practice
Type: 1v1 (alliance), could support more
Description: The alliances send engine-less sieges to enemy cities. These armies are capped at speed 7 or 8. Once the 12 hour setup is complete, each siege on a city begins scoring points, per hour. Points are a sliding scale, with bigger cities worth more. At 60 or 72 hours total of a continuous siege, a raze is declared, resulting in a final relatively large number of points. Diplomats are restricted to assassins and scouts.

This system was great fun, but it resulted in excessive book keeping for the accounting team. It's also a headache to police whether everyone is limiting their fake sieges to the maximum speed. I have the impression that a restricted version of Artefore's system might be a lot less monitoring. But wouldn't the sieges be over almost immediately, if the participants used enough battering rams?

Yes, they can miss. But if you have 30 rams firing in the first hour, at 15-25%, that level 20 wall isn't going to last very long. Maybe 3-5 hours, which is extremely short for a siege.