I know a bunch of you Ithaca guys, and Mr Koch, have been looking forward to this:
http://swa-gaming.org/Northeast-TITAN-Championship-Tournament-2012
Please note the new option this year:
You don't need to travel to Schenectady to play in preliminary rounds. Play in Ithaca, score your points, and come to Schenectady on March 10th if you qualify for the finals!
Look for this in the middle of the (long) post:
"*NEW for 2012* Player Hosted Qualifying games"
When you speak of "online games"
Is this the sourceforge Colossus client you speak of?
Online Play Options for the Titan Tournament
Nick's answer to Andy's question...
There are basically 3 options for online play.
1. Colossus
http://colossus.sourceforge.net/
Colossus is a good option. Someone would need to organize it. 3-5 players participating in the tournament would have to login at the same time and somebody would have to know enough to start the game. There is a chat space.
Colossus actually plays significantly faster than face-to face games once you know how to use it because it shows you were you can move and what you could muster. It also speeds play in a few other ways. But you still have to sit in front of the computer for 1-4 hours. In my experience (around 15 games), depending on the opponents a 3 player game runs 1.5 to 2.5 hours. When organizing everyone should agree on a time limit or none, just in case it goes longish.
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2. ACTS
http://acts.warhorsesim.com/index.asp
ACTS is not pretty but it works well and is another good option. I have played many games on ACTS. There's no graphics, the boards are made of ... I guess it's "ASCI art", not sure. But it does everything you need including rolling dice.
Unlike Colossus it is turn based. You do your move, they do theirs, and it emails you the turns. Which is good and bad. Good because you don't have to schedule times, you just make your moves when it's convenient for you. Bad because it takes a while to finish a game. But if everyone commits to a coupe of moves a day it's doable by the 26th. This option will be much better for next year when people will have allot more time to complete a game.
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3. iPAD APP ($7.99)
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/titan-vg-edition/id488026817?mt=8
The ipad app was just released, maybe a month or 2 ago. For now the app only works on the ipad and since it's new the may still be working the bugs out.
I can't say much about this because I don't have an ipad though I'm tempted to buy one just for this app!. I'm not sure if it's turn based, you have to finish the game once you've started, or both.
It should work well for the Tournament if you can find at least 2 other people playing in the tournament with ipads.
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I am willing to help people try to connect with tournament opponents. For all 3 of these options if they email
TitanTournament /at/ swa-gaming.org
and tell me which option(s) they are interested in, I can create list of potential opponents and help organize a bit.
Folks can also post on the forums. I'll post this on the SWA site and people can use it to organize games if they want.
I know a fair amount about ACTS and Colossus and can help people if they have technical trouble with those as well.
Crap.
Andy was doing a reasonable job of convincing me that we wanted to show up for this, but March 10th is the same day (well, same one of three days of Thursday, Friday, and Saturday) that I am running a high school musical, as I am often doing. Crap.
I'm out.
Gah. I'm out too then
Is there any chance that guys who cant do prelims can just show up and play pick-up Titan?
Andy the Usurper
Andy, you're giving up way too easily.
All you need to do is invoke your Inner Conan, sneak into Peter's tent while he's sleeping, and steal the Sceptre of Leadership. This will give you power over the Ithaca Clan.
You and the Ithaca guys can then play however many prelim games you want, in person or online, and whoever qualifies can road trip to Schenectady on March 10th. The Ithaca Clan will follow a strong leader!
Since my involvement with this is minimal, all you SFB guys can even crash at my place.
I'll even offer this; you all can stay here for the FtF prelim weekends of Feb 10-12 and Feb 24-26 if that makes it easier to play.
Discretion is the better part of valor.
There is no Clan Ithaca without Peter, and he's busy being in charge of this years high school production of Porgy and Bess. Or something.
Although I appreciate your offer Dave, I am really unable to tear myself away from my cursed house project for more than maybe the one day in March on finals weekend to play a couple two three pickup games if they are available.
February over March
If you can only play for one day, I doubt there will be any pick-up games on March 10th.
I suggest you look at one of the prelim days in Schenectady, and look to get in three games:
Friday, Feb 10 starting at 9:30a.m., 1:30p.m., and 6:00 p.m.
Saturday, Feb 11 starting at 9:00 a.m., 1:00p.m., and 5:00p.m (SWA Game-a-thon day)
Sunday, Feb 12 starting at 9:00 a.m., 1:00p.m., and 5:00p.m
Friday, Feb 24 starting at 9:30a.m., 1:30p.m., and 6:00 p.m.
Saturday, Feb 25 starting at 9:00 a.m., 1:00p.m., and 5:00p.m
Sunday, Feb 26, starting at 9:00 a.m., 1:00p.m., and 5:00p.m.
I might look at Feb 11
Coming to a prelim day is a better idea. Thanks Dave!
TITAN tournament off and running
We had the first set of prelim games this past weekend. I built up an attack stack with 2 dragons, but got my Titan ambushed and slain before I had a chance to run the dragons into battle.
I'll be playing more on the weekend of Feb 24-26. Any of you who want to road trip in for that are welcome to crash with me.
-DC
Don't you wish those dragons were with the Titan???
Wish I was there my friend.