Comic Book League - Game I used to play on my old forum
Rider_Philze
Posts: 55
Howdy CGS hosts and listeners!
I'm still a bit new to the forum, but I used to play this game on my old one, and I was wondering if you'd ever played something similar here. If not, I wanted to see if there was any interest.
Now, to start out, players make teams from an extensive tier list of comics characters after a round of editing the list. Sometimes it goes down the player list like an NFL draft, sometimes it's more free-form. There are 8 tiers.
Tier 1s are mostly civilian characters with limited, if any, combat training or special skills, e.g. Alfred and J. Jonah Jameson. Tier 2s are non-powered characters with some special skills or training, e.g. Lex Luthor and Dum Dum Dugan. Tier 3s are usually street-level non- or low-powered characters, e.g. Batman and Daredevil. Tier 4s are mostly upper street-levelers, people with special equipment, or low-level or inexperienced supers, e.g. Spider-Men, Captain Cold, and Kamala Khan.
Tiers 5-7 gradually increase in either strength or versatility; Agent Venom and Mr. Fantastic are usually Tier 5, Carol Danvers and Human Torch are typical 6s, Doctor Doom and Flashes usually make Tier 7, and Tier 8s are where you get your big guns: Kryptonians, Swamp Thing, Lanterns, Thors, magic-users, cosmics.
Assembling teams varied from one tournament to the next, but most times I've played, each player was given a number of points to spend on a minimum of 5 characters. Under this draft system, a character costs their tier x10 -- 10 points for a Tier 1, 80 for a Tier 8. Sometimes bidding is allowed, letting players spend more on a character they especially want. Tier 8s are limited to one per team, and so are 7s on occasion. Players are then arranged into conferences with their teams.
Now for the fun part. Each week, a topic lists match-ups between players on a specific battlefield. Each player posts a strategy for how their team would beat the other team given 30 minutes of prep time.
-All characters have whatever equipment, weapons, and knowledge they'd normally have or could reasonably have with them (A S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent like Dum-Dum Dugan could be expected to have a gun and some grenades).
-All are expected to act in-character (Sinestro can kill his opponents, but Barry Allen would not).
-Each team receives a dossier with their opponents' pictures and names, but any further info would have to be supplied by a character who knows (Your mileage may vary; a DC character might have heard there are other Lanterns besides the Green, but wouldn't necessarily know what they do beyond that they might be similar).
-Time travel and battlefield removal are prohibited. Historically, there are exceptions; Nightcrawler is of course allowed to pass through the dimension he teleports through. This rule is to prevent such solutions as "Superman throws Brainiac and Ghost Rider into space as hard as he can."
After two or three days to post strategies, voting opens. The number of players is limited, but ANY forum user is allowed to vote! Voters choose the team they think would win based on the respective strategies of each match-up, and players may vote in their own match (whether for themselves or for their opponent). Strictly speaking, nobody can enforce players posting strats or voting, but a good strategy can really turn it around for a team that seems outclassed on paper, and in my experience, voters are less likely to vote for a player who didn't post a strategy for the week.
Votes are tallied, draws are allowed, and a point system is in place to construct the single-elimination playoffs at the end of the "regular season."
So what do you all think out here in CGS Land? Would anyone be interested in seeing or doing something like this? Are there any questions about the game?
I'm still a bit new to the forum, but I used to play this game on my old one, and I was wondering if you'd ever played something similar here. If not, I wanted to see if there was any interest.
Now, to start out, players make teams from an extensive tier list of comics characters after a round of editing the list. Sometimes it goes down the player list like an NFL draft, sometimes it's more free-form. There are 8 tiers.
Tier 1s are mostly civilian characters with limited, if any, combat training or special skills, e.g. Alfred and J. Jonah Jameson. Tier 2s are non-powered characters with some special skills or training, e.g. Lex Luthor and Dum Dum Dugan. Tier 3s are usually street-level non- or low-powered characters, e.g. Batman and Daredevil. Tier 4s are mostly upper street-levelers, people with special equipment, or low-level or inexperienced supers, e.g. Spider-Men, Captain Cold, and Kamala Khan.
Tiers 5-7 gradually increase in either strength or versatility; Agent Venom and Mr. Fantastic are usually Tier 5, Carol Danvers and Human Torch are typical 6s, Doctor Doom and Flashes usually make Tier 7, and Tier 8s are where you get your big guns: Kryptonians, Swamp Thing, Lanterns, Thors, magic-users, cosmics.
Assembling teams varied from one tournament to the next, but most times I've played, each player was given a number of points to spend on a minimum of 5 characters. Under this draft system, a character costs their tier x10 -- 10 points for a Tier 1, 80 for a Tier 8. Sometimes bidding is allowed, letting players spend more on a character they especially want. Tier 8s are limited to one per team, and so are 7s on occasion. Players are then arranged into conferences with their teams.
Now for the fun part. Each week, a topic lists match-ups between players on a specific battlefield. Each player posts a strategy for how their team would beat the other team given 30 minutes of prep time.
-All characters have whatever equipment, weapons, and knowledge they'd normally have or could reasonably have with them (A S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent like Dum-Dum Dugan could be expected to have a gun and some grenades).
-All are expected to act in-character (Sinestro can kill his opponents, but Barry Allen would not).
-Each team receives a dossier with their opponents' pictures and names, but any further info would have to be supplied by a character who knows (Your mileage may vary; a DC character might have heard there are other Lanterns besides the Green, but wouldn't necessarily know what they do beyond that they might be similar).
-Time travel and battlefield removal are prohibited. Historically, there are exceptions; Nightcrawler is of course allowed to pass through the dimension he teleports through. This rule is to prevent such solutions as "Superman throws Brainiac and Ghost Rider into space as hard as he can."
After two or three days to post strategies, voting opens. The number of players is limited, but ANY forum user is allowed to vote! Voters choose the team they think would win based on the respective strategies of each match-up, and players may vote in their own match (whether for themselves or for their opponent). Strictly speaking, nobody can enforce players posting strats or voting, but a good strategy can really turn it around for a team that seems outclassed on paper, and in my experience, voters are less likely to vote for a player who didn't post a strategy for the week.
Votes are tallied, draws are allowed, and a point system is in place to construct the single-elimination playoffs at the end of the "regular season."
So what do you all think out here in CGS Land? Would anyone be interested in seeing or doing something like this? Are there any questions about the game?