Invitational Classic 2nd edition

[The_Good_Captain]

@gamerman01 said in Invitational Classic 2nd edition:

@Martin said in Invitational Classic 2nd edition:

I could ask Gamerman if he would be willing to add another table to the current one, where he already keeps track of OOB, BM, and PtV.

I would if I could.

@MrRoboto was the sole designer of the ELO sheets we use. I know very well how to use them, but I don’t know how to set up a new version in it. It’s more than adding a tab.

MrRoboto was a very active player for years and sometimes vanishes and comes back. He vanished without training me how to do alterations like this.

I’m posting so I can watch things progress here.
You are right, the league is about accommodating what players want, within reason. The original game of course is deserving of a tab, it’s just before this year I’ve not heard any interest at all in the Classic game, in the corners where I live.

MrRoboto has been gone several months. It would be nice if he’d come back before Jan 1 for a 2025 league season setup, but it’s not hard to record (league regular season) results in the meantime. Then if he doesn’t return, I could always put your rankings out in the form that we did all those years before 2024.

Your electronic table for this tournament looks pretty sweet. I’m not unilaterally deciding to pull Classic games into the league, but if at least a few of you petition, I can make it happen.

If any of you play a Classic game in the play boardgames - league section, and record the result in the post game results thread (read all league rules first, in a stickied thread there), it will be saved there for whenever rankings would be done, for Classic. And I could do them immediately in my homemade spreadsheet that would be always available in league standings online. This means even the rest of 2024, as in right now (I won’t count games you had before, outside the league section though).

@elche and @kwaspek104 succeeded in getting me to play some games of Classic after all these years. It took me a bit to catch up on all the rules, some of which I never played correctly back when we didn’t have the internet, I was a teenager, and just read the rulebook myself.

Two 2024 games was all it took for me to see that @The_Good_Captain knows what he’s talking about, not that that’s a surprise given his A&A brilliance and how many games of Classic he’s played lately. I invaded Spain and it was crushing in just the way that he said, and my opponent said yeah, that’s why we shouldn’t play with neutrals on.

Agree with restricted attack, it’s even suggested in the rulebook from the 80’s. No new complexes is also an optional rule listed in the rulebook.

Too much in one post, but I didn’t want this to get buried by my own posts. One houserule that would keep the exciting neutral aspect in play would be to assign a higher IPC cost to violating certain nations, especially Spain.

And with just those 2 games, it seemed Japan complexes are very helpful to the Axis, but I know complexes help the Allies a lot.

@gamerman01 I was referring to the above post where I believe that @Martin was asking if you wouldn’t mind running the bracket for Classic? And then I feel that you said you couldn’t (I think is what I’m interpreting) - and then Panther said something about classic not being as big as league play - and then I basically @ the nine people or so I know who would play classic through this website and asked how many were in the G40 league. And now where here. whew!

[Panther]

@The_Good_Captain said in Invitational Classic 2nd edition:

Panther said something about classic not being as big as league play

The questions are:

Do you want to run a tournament? In that case this is the correct category - and you can start right now.
Or:
Do you want to establish a (somehow continuous) League for Classic? In that case the “League” category would be the correct forum category, preferably coordinated with @gamerman01 .