Necromancer

[[PX]Kal Bob]

Requirements

Two teams, a timer and an air horn.

Setup

Teams are placed on opposite sides of the field. In the center of the field there's an air horn.

Rules

It's a game of elimination with one simple exception: each team has the option of bringing back their players from the dead once by blowing the air horn. Team 1 brings their teammates back by blowing the air horn once and team 2 blows the horn twice. Choose a time length that's good for your field size and the number of players involved - twenty minutes is usually about right.

Victory

The team with the most players left when the time is up wins.

Strategy

A good team plan is key to winning at Necromancer. Do you blow the horn at the first or do you risk not even getting to the horn as time runs out? Do you surround the horn and prevent the other team from ever blowing it or do you ignore the horn and just focus on eliminating the other team early on? Whatever your strategy, just make sure your whole team is on board and you work together.

Variation 1

Only allow the first team to get to the horn to raise their dead.

Variation 2

Only allow teams to blow the horn if they get to the horn in the first half of the game.

Link
http://paintball.about.com/od/gametypes ... mancer.htm

[[PX] Nebuchadnezzar]

This sounds like a great use of the pond area. Let's give it a try tomorrow.

[[PX]Kal Bob]

Does anyone have an Air Horn?

[[PX] Nebuchadnezzar]

We can use the whistle.

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

Question:

Is this the standard layout of the game? Red and Purple being the spawns with the Orange the skids containing the horn.

[[PX]Kal Bob]

Yes, That looks right to me.
You and I have to get the Picture Copter working so we can update that photo lol.

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

Well, I ask because if I hold that Orange ring as centre, uh, things a little off distance-wise.

I took 3 caps from Thump's vid. That's how I came up with the Orange circle. I included 3 pics to show why.

Taking the closest point of the spawn Blue team is 26m close to it while Purple team is 38m close to it. The 3rd distance pic show an area with a building front that makes it so that starting distances are within 2m (ie. Maroon where it's 26m vs. 28m). Are there any other balancing factors besides distance I don't know about?

[[PX]Kal Bob]

Only Problem I see is zero cover.
What is the distance if you put purple behind the 4 door kiln?

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

I'm not sure which one is the 4door kiln.

Here's a couple of potentials. I basically just looked at which view is the most symmetrical.

LEGEND:
-Blue = Team 1 spawn
-Purple = Team 2 spawn
-Orange = horn area
-Red = field limit

Proposal 1.
PRO's:
-~70ft. to horn for both teams
-protected area of buildings prevent spawn camping
-fast game
-horn is open to fire from just about every direction

CON's:
-blue can camp in the one building to guard horn
-super intense
-need markers of sorts to show southern limit

Proposal 2.
PRO's:
-~70ft to horn for both teams
-protected area of buildings prevent spawn camping
-fast game
-horn is open to fire from just about every direction
-less intense

CON's:
-purple may have a slight camp advantage
-longer game?
-need markers of sort to show southern limit

Proposal 3.
PRO's:
-~130ft to horn for both teams
-protected area of buildings prevent spawn camping
-largest amount of players can play
-horn is open to just about every direction
-less intense

CON's:
-blue has 2 easy bunkers
-blue has more cover off the break
-purple can spawn camp easier using .68
-blue can spawn camp easier with First Strikes
-staging area doors must be shut/barrier put up to avoid an incident
-need markers of sorts to show southern and eastern limit


Proposal 4.
PRO's:
-~300ft. to horn
-massive
-combo of woodsball vs. tactical
-excellent choke point for fire from a good amount of direction

CON's:
-staging area doors must be shut/barrier put up to avoid an incident
-purple easier to spawn camp, but this is semi-countered by 2 major entrances further up
-best played when there's green vegetation
-would definitely require markers/map/walk-through before game started

I think these are your best bets. You could mark the limits easily with 5 or so wooden stakes (on the smaller maps, anways) that were painted and flagged. If you saw someone go beyond them, call 'em out. I could provide probably as many stakes/flagging/paint that we need as long as nobody steals or breaks them.

I also believe the spawn areas I've outlined are good candidates for placing flags for "dual flag" capture-the-flag. The orange could be the spot for "single flag" capture-the-flag.

Thoughts?

[[PX] Nebuchadnezzar]

#2 is best for small games, and #4 for large games

[[PX]Kal Bob]

Number 2 is what I meant, but I also like number 4 as well.

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

Would we like to give them a try next time? Something along the lines of:

1. If < 10 people show, Proposal 2
2. If > 10 people show, Proposal 4

Might switch things up a bit.

[[PX]IronFist]

Would we like to give them a try next time? Something along the lines of:

1. If < 10 people show, Proposal 2
2. If > 10 people show, Proposal 4

Might switch things up a bit.

I think this should be more like

if > 30 people show, Proposal 4, lol.

The pond area alone is really huge (everyone remember that cap the flag match we played over there where basically everyone got tired and gave up? lol) including the entire other area would just be massive. I think you would need a lot of people to make the #4 layout work.


I really like the #2 layout though. It makes a lot of sense and we should try it out for sure (and probably switch to it full time).

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

I'll try and remember to bring wooden stakes so we can start marking stuff out.