"Best Ancients Ruleset for Tournament Play?" Topic

Imagine that you're organizing an Ancients tournament. Which ruleset would you specify for the tournament?

DBA,any version, fast and furious.

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Armati

DBA, hands down.

Joe Collins

Anything but DBA. Armati or FoG would do for me.

dbm

Easy. DBA.

Impetus. First, last and always.

Better than DB(whatever) any day of the week.

Yeah, I'll go there.

BB-DBA with some house mods.

David b

DBA because in a tournament you need things to move along pretty quickly.

Australian Tactica

Big Battle DBA

Impetus.
Basic Impetus
DBA.

DBA. I would not want to organise a tournament with the battles taking any longer than a DBA one.

x42

FoG works as good as any of them.

the one with the most enjoyable opponents to play against – which for me is still Armati (a great bunch of guys here)

I've only ever used DBMM in competitions and since I've been playing I've had a good bunch of games. The opponents have helped.

Impetus

If I was to hold a tournament, it would be Armati 2. Although around here, no-one but me would turn up! I do think Armati 2 is the best tournament ruleset out there. I have a feeling I would not be asked to run a tournament around here. Impetus would be my second choice and may then get a few players.

Armati, I quite like DBA but its too stylised, DBMM is too slow. FoG is too much the province of old DBM players who know the nuances of the rules too well and in FoG nuance counts!
So Armati because its a clean set that finishes a game in 2 hours, uses decent size armies, but not huge sop I can have more armies and looks like an Ancient battle on the table!

And as was said, nice bunch of players, low stress game.
Roy

DBA, Armati or FoG.

But anything really. Any good gathering of ancients enthusiasts transcends the differences between rules sets …

Because of the scoring system, a Lost Battles event would be good. And would certainly work.

AMW, Impetus, HC …

If there is a key, it would be getting the games completed in good time – so I'd more focus on things like using preset terrain rather than, say, FoG's infernal terrain generation …

… and rewarding nice figures and scenery as well as just bashing the other guy.

The rules? They're all good, these days.

Phil
soawargamesteam.blogspot.com

Right now, I'd have to say Field of Glory, mainly because it has more players involved in tournament play than any other set of Ancients rules.

I would love to see a tournament get organized for Hail Caesar though. It's not designed for competitions, but with a set of lists now published, I see no reason why it couldn't be used. And given its gentlemanly nature, with the right group of players, it would probably be a hoot of an event.

Peter C
Sword and Sandal Gaming Blog
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DBA all the way.

The entire tournament can fit into a 4 four game time slot.

DBA

DBA

Impetus is my ancients game of choice, but for a tournament I think DBA is more suitable.

WRG 5th Edition.

WRG 6th edition and a good bunch of players. When faced with nothing but DB-style games being played I sold off all my ancients. It just wasn't fun.

Art of War (Russo & Larsen)

DBA for sure. A friend and I run two DBA tournaments a year at the Recruits conventions in Missouri. DBA Is fast and fun. The tournament runs four hours, which fits well into convention schedules.

DBA, regular or big battle.

WRG 6th. Just to be difficult.

It would have to be a pretty simple game that has little room for rules interpretation.

1) Chess
2) Basic Impetus

I'm leaning more and more toward the theory that any set is ok but the key being preset army lists for whatever combatants are included. That way results might tend to be weighted on tactical skill and not list building skill.

Am I the only one in the house with love still for WAB?
VR
James Mattes

I don't organize or play in Ancients tournaments, so I have no preference.

Armati.