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Good templates, but malaria's better.

I’m also reserved

I just wanted to make a reminder that the 1st tournament is getting close to starting. Right now 15 players have joined and only 5 more are needed for it to start. You can check this tournament with this link https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer/Tournament?ID=29136

Most if not all players might appear weak to some of you, but participating in the tournaments is the only way to get to tier 1, meaning that all the good players who join now, probably will be promoted to tier 1 and then getting to fight them and have fun games will be much harder. So if you want some challenge, it's best to join now, or later you might need to go through early tournaments with not as many good players and therefore those tournaments will be more boring for you.

The template used for this template is one of its kind and probably won't be reused ever again in official tournaments, so now is the best time to experience it with fresh eyes. This template might look foreign to you, but it's the case with everyone else. I played a few test games with trusted players and I've come to conclusions that this template is strategically fair.

can i reserve a wee spot there? thanks

just sent you an invite and will keep inviting you to new tournaments once they are made. Thank you for reserving yourself a spot! Try to join quick, if you don't, someone else might join and tournament will start without you.

Our first tournament has begun! You can check it here https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer/Tournament?ID=29136 20 players are competing for the first opportunity to reach phase 2! Most of them aren't well known, so there's potential for some big surprises in this tournament.

I've already made the 2nd tournament https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer/Tournament?ID=29170 and I've already invited all current Warlight Ultimate Series' players to it. It's never too late to join Warzone Ultimate Series, new players can join it whenever they're interested, they just need to make a post in this thread or contact me directly. 1 tournament can be enough to qualify to phase 2. Players can join as many tournaments as they want and find the perfect game amount for them.

Currently the next objective is testing upcoming tournament templates. So far the settings are more or less decided, but there might be some changes made to make templates more fair for competitive play. So far I'm intending each tournament to have different approach to card settings: some templates will have a lot of them, some very few. In some players will get cards fast and in some card gain will be slow. Another setting which will vary is fog settings. Right now tournament with heavy fog has been already made, complete fog tournament is currently waiting for players. Next few tournaments will include light fog, normal fog and dense fog. Other settings will be revealed as tournaments are being made.

I also will try to make this and upcoming three templates as quickly as possible. If tournaments start around same time they tend to end at the same time too, which means that players will be able to join 2nd-5th place player special tournament at optimal time.

Warzone Ultimate series are still a new event series, which means that there's a need for more participating players. I will work intensively to find more players interested to participate in these series.

Once enough games finish I will also look into making some reviews. They might come in both text and video formats. Format will depend a lot on how much time I've got for it. Text reviews are generally quicker to do.

So far these are my main plans. As event will be going on I will keep regularly updating this thread, adding/editing more posts and releasing more updates, so stay tuned for more Warzone Universal Series related material to come out soon.

2nd Warzone Ultimate Series tournament has already begun, you can check its progress by using this link: https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer/Tournament?ID=29170

I just made the 3rd tournament: https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer/Tournament?ID=29189 I was initially going to release it later, but changed my mind, because this template uses local deployments and games with this setting tend to take longer periods of time to finish. Other important settings are 1 base income and all bonus values set to 1, to accompany this neutral and wasteland army counts were adjusted as well. The idea of this is to make every single army matter even more than ever before. Also same is applied to card settings: Only reinforcement card recharges and other cards come in 1 unit and don't regenerate. In this tournament every single decision matters, every single deploy and move transfer too.

So far my goals remain same as listed in previous update. I'll be trying to fill the 3rd tournament and then work on the 4th and 5th tournaments. After that will move to next goals, most likely reviewing some games.

I've noticed that 2 of the players have decided to surrender all of their games in the tournaments. Such actions diminish experience for others and takes away opportunity to participate from other players who want to join. Players who repeatedly join and surrender all games immediately, will get banned from Warzone Ultimate Series and will not get invited to future tournaments. If player doesn't like the tournament, there's no shame in declining it or at least not joining.

3rd Warzone Ultimate Series tournament has begun recently. It has light fog setting, so it's possible to view games under progress. Here's link to the tournament: https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer/Tournament?ID=29189

4th tournament has been just made https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer/Tournament?ID=29248 This tournament will use mostly basic settings compared to previous tournaments. The big change is that base income, bonus values, neutral count have been rebalanced to make 1 territory bonuses give income and not be overpowered and then the bigger the bonus becomes, the more worthwhile it is to get it (the bonus size increases its value much more than under normal map bonus values). This might make some values look out of control, but plenty of test games have been played and test games resembled regular games.

Another intention with this template is to give player multiple expansion options. 1 of them is going for bigger bonuses as mentioned above. Some of the bonuses have been increased even further in their income value and because of bonus values now coming in double digits, that increase wasn't too high to break the flow of the games. Those buffed bonuses also mostly are in difficult positions, so extra income helps to balance out for harder defense options.

The final expansion option are wastelands. On these settings each wasteland is worth 0 armies, so it acts like a force increasing bonus's value. If more than 1 wasteland lands up in same bonus, that bonus basically becomes a must have and players need to decide how they will approach the situation. Wastelands can also knock out regular starts which make that bonus longterm a very nice expansion spot.

Both players start with 8 picks each and Heavy Earth map has many small bonuses, so on this template there will be plenty of options for double, triple and even bigger chained starts to get early bonuses quickly.

The other noticeable change from basic templates is the amount of cards and how fast they're gained. Most cards only need 1 piece for full completion (including bomb card!), so players will be getting a lot of them. The base card limit is low, which means that hoarding good cards will be harder as players will be forced to discard or use high amounts of cards. It's also important to notice that sanctions card is worth -20%, so it will increase the income of target instead of reducing it. Another important thing to notice is that surveillance and reconnaissance cards both last multiple turns after getting played.

If you're interested to get invited to Warzone Ultimate Series 4th tournament, leave a post below or contact me directly. I'll make sure to invite you to this and future tournaments. Once this tournament fills, I'll be making 5th tournament immediately after. It will likely have dense fog as one of its settings.

can I reserve a place in the fourth tournament

5th tournament has been made https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer/Tournament?ID=29261

STORY TIME
So apparently Spring came, which means that Easter arrived and people decided that they need cookies. They embarked onto a journey through world and finally found the the Kingdom of Farah. It had huge cookies, as big as mountains and they came in all kind of flavors starting with chocolate and ending with lemon. These mountains also had very warm climate, which was perfect for mosquitoes to breed. And because of spring season, their population was growing up very fast. These mosquitoes could spread a very deadly disease called 'MALARIA' which would make humans very sick and eventually kill them.

Despite this risk people boldly decided to go for the cookies. As soon as they reached the cookie mountains, they started tasting the cookie crust and it was the most delicious thing, they've ever tasted, a true divine gift! Humans quickly turned on each other and started fighting for who can take all the cookies for themselves.

Unlike for humans, mosquitoes, were very specific about their tastes. Due to their small body, they could only take in so much blood, so they needed to ensure, that the meal inside their system was the tastiest they could find. For different mosquito, different blood was best, so they targeted different humans. They quickly learned that taking human blood was much harder than they thought of, people would quickly start using bug spray, bombs and sanctions on mosquitoes and whenever they would manage to get close humans would shield themselves with diplomacies and blockades and also would try to dodge mosquitoes with airlifts and order priority moves.

Little flying bugs soon realized, that by themselves they stand no chance to taste human blood. So did humans soon realize that getting all the cookie was unlikely as bomb after bomb and punch after punch, nothing would work on humans. These people were so tough that they nicknamed each other "Commanders", because they would always give out orders like "please die!", "give me your cookie!", "leave the mountains!".

Mosquitoes were not only hungry, they were clever. They knew how to speak English. They saw humans struggle and decided that best way to get their blood is to choose a human whom they don't like, team with him, help him defeat his enemy and then while dead opponent's blood is still warm, drink as much of it as possible. Mosquitoes quickly formed factions and showed humans with whom they want to ally by forming English words in air. Deadly alliances formed and The Kingdom of Farah soon delved into total war state!

There is only room for 20 humans to fit in the Kingdom of Farah and only one of them will be left standing alive in the coming months. Find out the latest developments of this war on this tournament page https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer/Tournament?ID=29261

There is still more space for more humans to enter Cookie mountains, but the time is ticking and soon the 20 player tournament of life and death will begin. Those who want to be shown the path to the Kingdom of Farah, should make a loud public shout or try to make a private contact with a warrior who goes by the name 'Phakh Gokhn', if you do it quickly enough, you might still be able to join this tournament in time!

This one filled up very quickly :(

Next tourney when