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pcw27

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Re: Grand Melees
« Topic Start: December 08, 2020, 06:20:52 PM »
That won't reasonably approximate a Grand Melee, because in BattleMaster battles there's always exactly two sides.

If you get 6 individual nobles from different realms into a region and have them all set to murderous, you'll have one of three outcomes:

1) The game doesn't find a defender. No battle takes place.
2) The game recognizes one of the nobles as either owning the region or controlling the battlefield, and designates them the defender. They fight alone against all the attackers.
3) The game selects a defender as in #2, but they have one or more allies present, who join in defending; all others attack them.

So then it would probably need to be alliance bloc vs alliance bloc or realm vs realm, rather than a total free-for-all with the guild organizing things and determining attacking and defending sides with equal numbers. That could still be pretty cool. There could also be qualifying bouts with individual TLs challenging each other in 1 on 1 melees in order to be accepted into the grand melee.