Ideas for a 'balanced' event...

[Kaled]

I knew this site could be cliquey, but an Invitational event? Isnt the community small enough already?

Im happy enough to run the event whenever, but if its going to clash with another event that a lot of the regular players are going to attend, maybe i need to rethink my timing?

Although I plan to attend the INQvitational, I don't think it should factor in choosing a date for a Conclave event. Molotov has only invited a few people from this community - I think it's mostly Ammobunker members - so it's not a clash that will mean a load of people can't attend. I suggest you ignore it as it only affects a couple of people.

As for a Winter Conclave - the main reason I moved the IGT was that WHW was all booked up through December that year. As it turned out, the snow meant it would have had to be cancelled anyway, but we'd ran it in December the couple of years before without any problem so I don't think we should discount the idea of a Winter Conclave.

[MarcoSkoll]

Don't get me wrong - I'm not suggesting we have to try and place clear water between 'Clave events and the INQvitational, but that we'd be better off missing a clash if we can avoid it, because we don't get a lot of players in the first place.
Also, you'd have to listen to me moan about it all day. And do you want that? Really?

Mind you, if it is the only date possible, then at least we'd get the amusement of an absolute mob of Inquisitor players that day. That's part of the reason I want to see if we can get some kind of unity between the two scales for a mixed event, because we could probably double the turnouts.

As for a Winter Conclave

I thought we had come to something of a consensus that they weren't ideal (and thus we didn't try for one last year), but if we decide to reinstate it, then I'll run with it. (That's "run WITH it" not "run it". Important difference. But I may do something again sometime.)

[Bloodpact]

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Mind you, if it is the only date possible, then at least we'd get the amusement of an absolute mob of Inquisitor players that day. That's part of the reason I want to see if we can get some kind of unity between the two scales for a mixed event, because we could probably double the turnouts.
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Seems a bit odd that the 2 groups seem exclusive anyway. Do the other guys not read the 'Clave?

I'll speak to my contacts at WHW about August dates tomorrow and put up a sign up post once i have a definite date.

[MarcoSkoll]

Seems a bit odd that the 2 groups seem exclusive anyway. Do the other guys not read the 'Clave?

Some do (Molotov & Keravin I think are the main two), but the Clave's less than entirely welcoming history toward 28mm players means that a lot of INQ28 players are over at Ammobunker now.

There are attempts to patch things up, but those haven't got that far yet. I'm hoping that more people rejecting the segregation should help things - I've met quite a few of the 28mm players now and should meet more at the INQvitational.

[Bloodpact]

Inq28 is for me, like Necrophilia in that its not my cup of caffeine, but what other people get up to in their spare time is their own business 

[Keravin]

Being one of those filthy others I was interested in this event.   Bloodpact - can't imagine why they might not want to come and see such lovely jokes

[MarcoSkoll]

I shouldn't need to point out that comparisons to sexual deviancy aren't going to help. We're talking about different models, not raping corpses.

While it's no secret that my preferences lie with 54mm (as the larger size is less fiddly to sculpt), I will play 28mm when that's available. As I see it, it's Inquisitor - provided you've got players who "get it", it's good whether big or small.

[Kaled]

If any of the Inq28 crowd do want to attend but don't want to splash out on a whole 54mm warband, then if they build a warband leader, I would be amenable to loaning out a character or two to make up the rest of a warband.

[Bloodpact]

Im always happy to lend out models to careful players

[MarcoSkoll]

I'm not sure you're all talking about the same "this event". I think Keravin is talking about the dual-scale proposition.

We really need another thread to discuss that idea (and probably need a sister thread on Ammobunker as well if we want decent buy-in), so I'll go work on compiling the ideas we've got so far.

[Kaled]

I'm not sure you're all talking about the same "this event". I think Keravin is talking about the dual-scale proposition.

That's what I figured. But I was thinking that maybe a good stepping stone to a dual scale event would be to persuade a few of the Inq28 players to take part in a 54mm event - we're already got a few Inq54 players playing in the 28mm INQvitational, and the more the that everyone mixes the more support we're likely to get for a dual scale event in future.

[MarcoSkoll]

A slight problem has just come to mind...

Each faction will have a Faction Leader, who will allocate players to the 4 available areas of investigation, based on their strengths.

Is this not likely to end up with the same players facing off again and again? Obviously, misleading the faction leaders in different ways so that some thought it was a fighty scenario and others an investigatey scenario would do something for this, but you don't really want to be overdoing that or have people having to play each other too many times.

I think we all secretly hope to get to play against as many of the cool new models we've seen on the forum as possible, so playing the same people repeatedly is less than ideal.

[Mordenkenain]

Perhaps 4 available areas is not the best way to go; if the faction leaders were given all the appropriate briefings for that round for their faction, it's therefore their responsibiltity to work out who would be better for each scenario, rather than telling them 'this is a fighty scenario' (fighty being a technical term)

Just a suggestion I'm throwing out there

[MarcoSkoll]

I think that might run into a problem that the days aren't overburdened with spare time, so having to have the faction leader read all the briefings could heavily eat into our gaming minutes while they have to decide what teams go where.

So the briefings would have to be kept pretty darn short.

(fighty being a technical term)

Indeed. It's like the glunk being the international standard measure for motor oil.

[Kaled]

I agree. Probably best just to randomly allocate players to tables for the first games (or use the charts Marco created), and then have the faction leaders allocate players to each table for the finale.