1st Vassal Journeyman League Information Thread

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1st Vassal Journeyman League Information Thread Jul 28, 2018 7:19:38 GMT macdaddy likes this

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Format of the League

So the Journeyman League will be broken down into two parts, following the Journeyman league document. Firstly there will be a six week journeyman league using the following schedule:

The League is set to begin at:

Tuesday 31/07/2018 6AM AEST (GMT+10)
Monday 30/07/2018 8PM GMT/UTC
Monday 30/07/2018 4PM Eastern Time (ET)

Following the 6 week league, there will be an optional Journeyman End of Event Tournament. Unlike the main Journeyman league this will be a tournament where you faced fixed opponents, one per round, and there will be a single winner at the end. You will bring your single 75pt list that you had during week 6 of the journeyman league.

Rules of the Journeyman League:

at the beginning of each week you will be required to submit your list to me as the event organiser. I can be reached on the discord as Mysterious Challenger or Private Messaged on Lormahordes.

You are required to conform to the usual journeyman league rules of not removing anything, but on units with min/max choices you can change that at will. They can be a Maximum unit of bane warriors in week 4 and a minimum unit of bane warriors 5 for example. Each week you follow the schedule above. You are allowed a caster swap in Week 4.

Each week you will use the discord or simply logging onto vassal to find opponents. After each game you submit the results to me by just telling me who won. There are no assigned opponents, or limit to the number of games you can play and submit. This is in the core journeyman league rules, and i believe its especially valid in this digital format where we're dealing with a lot of disparate time zones.

The only restriction is you can't play the same opponent twice in a row. If i, Challenger, was to play against Mercy 3 times in a row, i could only submit the first one. However if i played against Mercy, then Macdaddy, and then Mercy again i could submit all 3 games.

Awards and Winning in the Journeyman League

There will be two main awards for the Journeyman League part of the event.

Destroyer (Best Commander) - Each week the player with the highest number of recorded wins will receive a destroyer point. In the event of a tie, the player with less games played (so a higher win %) receives the point. At the end of the 6 weeks the player with the most destroyer points is awarded the Best Commander title. In an event of a tie at this stage, the two players will have to play a game with their journeyman lists against each other.

Journeyman (Best Sport) - At the end of week 5 i will have everyone do a vote to me privately of who they think the best sport is. Whoever wins the most votes will be given the Journeyman (Best Sport) title which will be announced at the end of the journeyman league.

The End of Event Journeyman Tournament

At the end of the 6 weeks players will be able to sign up for the End of Event tournament. You play with your 75pt list from week 6. The number of rounds will be determined by the amount of players who sign up. The rules of this event will be more stringent as it is a tournament.

Scenario
the scenario played will always be Journey's End. for each round.

Maps
I'll be setting up Six official tournament maps for the Journeyman league. They will be provided to all players and as part of the game you will roll a d6 to randomly select the map played. Each map will be numbered correspondingly.

Logging
Unlike the normal journeyman league, you will be required to submit a .vlog of your games to me. This ensures that there is no cheating even when there's no judge present, and it ensures that if there is any kind of disagreement i can see what has happened even if i'm not present. Submitting a log of a game is extremely simple and i will post a tutorial on how to do it when the time comes.

Where to find Opponents & Lines of Communication

It ultimately doesn't matter where you find your opponents as long as they are officially players in the Journeyman league, or they sign up to it, late submissions are accepted.

The official area to find opponents and to discuss vassal however is - discord.gg/bP6gTh3

I am present in the discord, i can be tagged with @mysterious Challenger. Any questions can be private messaged to me on discord or on lormahordes here. you can also find me in the R/Warmachine discord.

Confirmed Player List

If your name is missing on this list, please contact me as soon as possible. Additionally, its probably better your name here matches your discord name, if you're a facebook user i've put your actual name in. If you want it changed to match your discord name let me know

Andrew	Cryx
Mikastan	Grymkin
Smartrchild	Crucible Guard
actuallycoulsen	Grymkin
Nyxu	Convergence of Cyriss
PapaG	Legion of Everblight
Fabint	Minions
Dino	Crucible Guard
atlaST	Protectorate
Pete McCann	Grymkin
Idols	Grymkin
Eric Holmes	Not Selected
Ammon Draper	Minions
Devin Kaminsky	Not Selected
Venefics83	Retribution
SeaPainter	Circle Orboros
Renraku	Skorne
Type2	Circle Orboros

Challenger	Circle Orboros
Andrew W	Grymkin
Macdaddy	Protectorate
TheePandaman	Cryx
TheGuardDog	Protectorate
Gedditoffme	Legion of Everblight
Sand20go	Protectorate
Remdawgkillionaire	Not Selected
batmantheon	Khador

Zat	Mercenaries
Shisenshi	Crucible Guard
Monteguegodthor	Circle Orboros
LoS_Jaden	Khador

Brotherless	Cygnar
AceGrim001	Convergence of Cyriss
Krzystof Lekacz	Skorne
Giorgio	Retribution of Scyrah
jhunterc15	Retribution of Scyrah
Praedyth	Minions
Tiffany	Magnus1

Additionally - a vassal tutorial will be provided before the league begins.

SPOILER: Click to show

Check this thread later for more.

Last Edit: Sept 19, 2018 9:20:16 GMT by challenger

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1st Vassal Journeyman League Information Thread Jul 28, 2018 7:20:02 GMT

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A Vassal Tutorial - Setting up your Week1 and Week2 Games

Required Downloads:

Vassal Engine - www.vassalengine.org/download.php

Warmachine Module 5.2 - drive.google.com/open?id=1PdMF6Fdu-1VbhKfy0_sTt-JqtofEb4Xf

Opening Vassal:

After Vassal Engine is downloaded you'll be treated to a small window that looks something like this

To load the warmachine module you need to do file --> open, and navigate to the WMH 5.2 module that you downloaded in the required downloads section. When you open vassal you'll just need to select "play online" and it will connect you to the server.

Setting up your Room

Step 1 - Getting in a Room

When you're online in Vassal, on the righthand side you will be able to see a list of rooms and whos in them. It will look something like this

To join a room all you have to do is double click the rooms name and you will automatically join in. To create your own room, you simply have to type the name of a new room into the "New Game" box and hit enter.

Step 2 - Loading a Map

This is an easy step with module 5.2. you simply navigate to File in the top left --> New Game --> Premade Maps and pick one. More advanced users can try creating their own maps but i don't recommend it just yet for new vassal users.

Step 3 - Pulling your Models out

On the top left, press setup --> Models which will bring up this window

You can then navigate through this section to grab both the models you want to use, and the damage grids associated with them. So as a Circle player the steps i would take would be:

Click on Hordes tab, Click on Circle. Then navigate the list of Warlocks to pull out Tanith and her damage grid. Then click on Warbeasts and pull out a pureblood and its grid, a wild argus and its grid, and a gorax rager and its grid. Then i have all of my required models.

Step 4 - Setting up the deployment line

Setup -- > Deployment -- > Deploy. Drag it out and double click on it so the deployment grid appears. When you're done with it, click the Hide button on the top left of the playing area that it creates, or just select it and delete it with Control + D (D for delete)

If you deploy to the top side, you'll need to select your models and press Control [F]lip (Control +F )

Step 5 - Marking your models, the Vassal Way.

at this point you're ready to play a game, but you need to keep track of several things. In a battlebox game the three things you'll need to keep track of are:

1. Fury
2. Upkeep Spells
3. Status effects such as Knockdown.

So, how are each of these done?

1. Tracking Fury

Turn on the [N]umber display on your models by selecting them and pressing N. This defaults to 0 for Warbeasts (For 0 fury on them) and whatever the FURY of the caster is.

To increase fury counts you press M for More fury. You would do this during leeching, reeving, and whenever a warbeast forces.

To decrease fury counts you press B. there's no easy way to remember that except B is next to N like M is on standard QWERTY keyboards.

2. Marking Upkeep Spells

This one is fairly simple. Click the model and press Control + [E]ffect. Control + E brings up an input box where you can type something and that lets you mark an effect on a model.

3. Managing Status Effects

These ones just have simple hotkeys.

Corrosion - Control + Alt + C
Fire - Control + Alt + F
Knockdown - Control + Alt + D
Blind - Control + Alt + B
Stationary - Control + Alt + S
Disrupted - Control + Alt + U

You can also just right click any model and navigate to the status menu, and the right clickj lets you refresh your memory on any hotkey available.

Finally we have Step 6 - Measurements

Measuring things in Vassal is very easy. It follows a simple rule. Tape measure tool is for drawing LOS and only drawing LOS.

for all other measurements from Control area to CMD area, to movement distances you click on the model, and press the number key corresponding to the distance you want to measure. ie - pressing 5 = 5" bubble.

Shift adds 10, Alt adds 20. E.G

5 = 5"
Shift + 5 = 15"
Alt + 5 = 25"

you use the ` key (next to 1, below ESC) to turn it between a half bubble and a full bubble.

Finally, using templates:

Control + 2 - Brings up the deviation template centered on the selected model. Can be rotated by right clicking it
Control + 3 - Brings up an aoe 3 centered on the selected model
Control + 4 - Brings up an aoe 4 centered on the selected model
Control + 5 - Brings up an aoe 5 centered on the selected model

Control + 6 - Brings up a spray 6 template on the selected model. use control + P to pivot it. it will follow your model perfectly for a very accurate spray measurement
Control + 8 - Same as above, except Spray 8
Control + 0 - Same as above, except Spray 10

Dice rolling

Arrayed along the top are d6 buttons, from 1d6 to 6d6. these manage your rolling. Theres also a Deviation (D6) button for your aoes that miss

What to do if you get lost:

Vassal experienced players can help you, message anyone whos online and just ask them how to do anything simple you've forgotten how to do. Vassal can be a bit clunky to learn, but really great when you do have it learned.

Alternatively, make sure you right click models and check that whole massive context menu that comes up. it will tell you how to do almost anything.

Last Edit: Jul 30, 2018 23:11:49 GMT by challenger

remdawgkillionaire Demo Gamer Posts: 12	1st Vassal Journeyman League Information Thread Aug 1, 2018 5:38:46 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by remdawgkillionaire on Aug 1, 2018 5:38:46 GMT Just a quick question, are we locked into using the battlebox casters or can we start with something different instead? I'd love to be able to learn something from the ground up!

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Aug 1, 2018 5:38:46 GMT remdawgkillionaire said:

Just a quick question, are we locked into using the battlebox casters or can we start with something different instead? I'd love to be able to learn something from the ground up!

Hey rendawgkillionaire. Right now we're doing the battlebox casters and the alternate ones offered in the JML document ( privateerpress.com/files/Journeyman%20Rules%202018.pdf ) with the exception of Ossrum.

I may be making a minor exception for Trollblood players who have expressed concern about their box starting with only lights though

1st Vassal Journeyman League Information Thread

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