VASSAL OP 2022 Spring Team Tournament

Announcing the "Spring Team Tournament" VASSAL Organized Play event!

We had 2 team events in 2021 and both were very well received. This year we're doing something pretty close to standard Armada - but with teams.

Format

Players are grouped into teams:

• Each team picks a single faction (Empire, Rebel, Republic, or Separatist).
• There are 3 players per team.
• Each team elects a "Grand Admiral" to be in charge of the team.

3 rounds of "team" Swiss:

• It's the team's total score that determines the Swiss seed.
• During the 1st round, each team will be paired within its time zone (if possible).
• Rounds 2 & 3 are normal Swiss.

Winner:

The team with the most combined tourney points is the winner!

Schedule

Rounds will last 14 days.

Key dates:

• Signup/fleet submission deadline: Sunday, 10th April. 
• Round 1 starts Monday, 11th April.
• Round 3 ends Sunday, 22nd May.

Listbuilding restrictions/rules tweaks

Standard Armada rules, with the following exceptions:

• UNIQUE cards, including objectives, are unique within the team.
• Grand Admirals are responsible for "battle pairings" within each team.

Battle pairing:

• The GA of the team with the lower score (determine randomly round 1) decides if their side will put a fleet forward or of the opposing team will.
• The opposing team decides which fleet will oppose the nominated fleet, then puts forward one of its remaining fleets.
• Repeat until all fleets have been paired.

Signup

Sign up on Tabletop.to here: https://tabletop.to/sw-armada-vassal-team-tournament/signups

Fleet submission

You submit your fleet when signing up on TTT (see above).

Grand Admirals need to PM me on Discord with team names and members.

Battle reporting

Report battles here: https://tabletop.to/sw-armada-vassal-team-tournament/submit

Discord

Join the Armada Discord/VASSAL OP channel here: https://discord.gg/NKxp5DEkPC

Tournament software

We're using Tabletop.to to track players, scores, and matchups. 

You can find the event here: https://tabletop.to/sw-armada-vassal-team-tournament

Grand Championship 2022

• Points:
• Entry: 1
• Completion: 1 (3 games)
• Top 4: 1
• Runner-up: 1
• Winner: 2
• Special: 1 each
• TBA
• TBA

Scoreboard: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uA8tqtouirSzFUsqmNzvPcATvHLdEGid8rYlvjwKcH4/edit?usp=sharing

VASSAL OP Q3 2021 Escalation tournament

Announcing the "Escalation tournament," a new VASSAL Organized Play event!

Format

4 rounds Swiss.

(most likely there will be only 1 common time grouping but if there are many players I might split the event)

Schedule

Key dates:

• Signup/fleet submission deadline: Wednesday, 22nd September. 
• Round 1 starts Friday, 24th September.
• Round 4 ends in late October/early November.

Listbuilding restrictions/rules tweaks

Standard Armada rules, with the following exceptions:

• Escalation games: 300/400/500/600 points
• Custom commanders
• The ability for ships and unique squadrons to become veterans.

Read the complete rules pdf here.

The most recent version is 1.01.

Changelog:

• No fleet point cost for veterancy.
• Command 4 ships banned from start.

Signup

Use this signup/fleet submission form: https://forms.gle/xc1Botq5tn8uNFES9

Fleet submission

Your round 1 fleet is submitted when signing up (see above).

For rounds 2-4, please reuse the form.

Battle reporting

Report battles using this form: https://forms.gle/VZhChNm9X1MBAwwF8

Only one player has to do the reporting.

Discord

Join the Armada Discord/Online OP channel here: https://discord.gg/6pRQJ88A7z

Tournament software

We're using TTT to track players, scores, and matchups. 

You can find the event here: https://tabletop.to/vassal-op-escalation-tournament

Vassal Grand Championship

The Standard series is part of the Grand Championship.

Read more here. Contribute to the prize pool here.

• Points for this tournament:
• Entry: 1
• Minimum 4 games: 1
• Top 4: 1 (since only 6 teams)
• Runner-up: 1
• Winner: 2
• Special challenges: none

Current scores. 

Final call for Vassal Team mini-league event (Sunday, 17th April)

Wave 10 is finally here! 

(both Warlords and Vassal have been updated with the full set of cards. Some of the images are a bit grainy but I've already gotten some better scans so will be replaced shortly)

It's time to get the VASSAL OP H1 2021 event "Team mini-league" rolling.

Team leaders must submit fleets by Sunday, 18th April using this form.

If you don't have a team yet, try posting your name using this form and also join our Discord channel.

Warlords clone

You can build your fleets any way you like but to help you along I've created a Warlords clone that has all the errata, costing changes, and upgrade slot tweaks. 

You need to create a new user to save your fleets as I didn't copy user data.

Most things should be coded in but there are a few oddities you'll have to manually check, like the Flagship limitation of Flag Bridge and the Star Destroyer limitation of SPHA-T to name a couple.

Custom Vassal module version

For the team league, we'll use a special version of module 4.4.0 called 4.4.0vop

4.4.0vop replaces standard 1.5 cards with their errataed versions and adds 3 new titles and 2 new squadrons. You can have it installed alongside 4.0.0 so there should be no problems at all.

Get the 4.4.0vop version here.

I haven't moved around existing stuff, so if the Republic wants to manually get Hondo in Slave I, he'll have to look under Empire --> Squads --> Firespray. Jango/Bo-Katan/Phoenix Nest are in a separate custom tab at the end. 

Shrimpbot is compatible with the special module, except for the 5 new cards. You need to remove those before generating the setup file. For everything else, Shrimpbot will generate a setup file that when run will give you errataed (if any) cards. Pretty neat!

Errata

Errata version 1.2.1 can be downloaded here.

Read it carefully and keep it at hand for reference!

Points changes/upgrade slot changes

These documents list out costs and upgrade slots (for ships):

Ships

Squadrons

Upgrades

The future

Lessons learned during this event will be applied to later custom events. So what you do here in terms of fleet building and battles will have a real effect on what comes.

Last, but not least: have fun!

Vassal OP, 1st Half 2021, Team league

The time has come to sign up for our first Vassal league, the aptly named "Vassal OP, 1st Half 2021, Team league." 😅

FORMAT

In a "Team league" players are grouped into teams. 

• Each team picks a single faction (Empire, Rebel, Republic, or Separatist).
• 3 players per team.
• 4 rounds of games.
• Each round teams are paired by the TO (randomly, it's NOT Swiss). Each player is then (randomly) paired against a player from the opposing team.
• The team with the most combined tourney points (across both sectors) after those 4 rounds is the winner!

To keep scheduling manageable I'll break the teams into two sectors (if we have enough teams, that is):

• EURO: You want to play at times convenient for GMT/CET zones.
• NA: You want to play at times convenient for North American zones.

Note: There needs to be an even number of teams or there will be pairing problems. Handing out team byes isn't an option. If this becomes an issue I'll sort it out then and there.

SCHEDULE

We'll start as soon as wave 10 has been fully spoiled and added to the Vassal module. 

Hopefully, that'll be very soon, during the AMG Mini-stravaganza 18-20 March! Looking at the schedule for those 3 days I don't think we'll get wave 10 spoils. Will have to wait for the release articles.

• Rounds will be 7-10 days long. Or put another way: 1 week + an extension if needed to make things work.
• If a player can't play his game within the allotted time period one of his teammates must sub in. Only use this as a last resort!

SIGNUP

Players can either sign up as fully formed teams or as individuals. Use this form.

• Players who sign up as part of a team are guaranteed to be part of that team.
• Individuals will be randomly assigned to teams, taking into account player wishes and time zones as much as possible.

Does this mean good players can band together and have a greater chance of winning? Absolutely. One of the many joys of team sports! 

In either case, you'll be asked to provide a faction. For players entering as individuals, I can't guarantee 100% you'll get your preferred faction. If this comes up we'll discuss it individually.

FLEETBUILDING RESTRICTIONS

• Your team's faction is your faction!
• Uniques are unique WITHIN THE FACTION. 
• Objectives are also considered unique in this regard. For example, if one player picks Asteroid Tactics, none of his teammates can take that objective in their fleets.

FLEET-BUILDER SUPPORT

Some cards have had their cost adjusted or have added/removed upgrade card slots. We're also using previewed ship and upgrade cards that haven't found their way into all the fleet builders.

There are three ways to go about solving this challenge:

• Build lists by hand. Just get a spreadsheet, enter your cards and their costs, and have the sheet calculate the total points.
• Use one of the main list builders to provide the framework, export it, then adjust the final details by hand.
• Use a Warlords clone that has been updated with the new costs/upgrade tweaks by clicking here.

DISCORD CHANNEL

There is a dedicated Discord channel for the event.

Use it to chat and ask questions, but keep it related to the event. 

TOURNAMENT SOFTWARE

Follow the teams and scores on the TTT event here.

VASSAL OP 2021 GRAND CHAMPIONSHIP

It's the team result that determines points for the Grand Championship.

• Entry: 1
• Completion: 1
• Top 4: 1 (depends on the number of teams, could be top 8)
• Runner-up: 1
• Winner: 2

Special challenges that can earn players extra points (1 pt each, max 2 pts per player):

• Far Superior To Droids: Republic challenge. Clone only. Only Clone ships, non-Adept squads, and non-Jedi upgrades (it's obvious who they are).
• Han's Dice: Unaligned challenge. No dice modification or adding dice to the attack pool. You may INCLUDE cards with modifications but you can't use them (so swarm squadrons are ok but they can't use swarm).
• Going Commando: Unaligned challenge. Running a squadronless fleet.
• Rebellions Are Built On Hope: Rebel challenge. No A-wings, CR90A, or MC30 Torpedo allowed. Post-Endor cards not allowed.
• Roger, Roger: Separatist challenge. No Hardcells, only non-unique droid squadrons, and droid upgrades allowed ((it should be obvious which they are).
• There Can Be Only One: Unaligned challenge. Only 1 copy of any given card in the fleet and max 1 upgrade per ship.
• We Don't Need Their Scum: Empire challenge. Only "Star Destroyer" ships allowed. No rogue squadrons allowed. Post-Endor cards not allowed.

Current score.

ERRATA

The following errata is in effect for this specific event.

The errata aims to increase the fun factor, increase the variety of ships and squadrons on the table, and put CW and GCW factions on a level field. 

Most of the objectives have gotten small tweaks, so make sure you check out that part in particular!

The errata is close to a finished state. If you have feedback PM me on Discord.

Download v1.1.0 

POINTS AND UPGRADE ICON UPDATES

Ships: Lists points changes (blue is a reduction, red an increase), name changes (in blue), and upgrade slots (blue have been added, red have been removed).

Squadrons: Lists points changes (blue is a reduction, red an increase).

Upgrades: Lists points changes (blue is a reduction, red an increase).

SHIPS

Download v1.1.0 

SQUADRONS

Download v1.1.0 

UPGRADES

Download v1.1.0