The Tenth EUC Starfighter Draft: The New Pilot Order - Congratulations Talon_Kenobi

Depends on where you think the backfield begins really.

IMO if you have a solid backfield you should be able to go far. They don't need to be great, just good.

BTW I like the 8 man teams, it really tests your ability to effectively pick your team.

 

How about still picking 8, but only sending 6 out into individual battle, whilst all 8 take part in team battles - like the Jedi Draft is doing at the moment?

 

If that happened I don't think the 7th or 8th round picks (depending on the insanity of the FA round) would ever get used. If they're legitmately good enough to get picked the deserved to be used.

Now if you want to limit it to 6 rounds then you could force two wingpairs.

 

True, but they could add cohesion or battle meditation for a team.

 

I've always thought it would be interesting to have an admiral/strategist type that doesn't compete, but helps organise the pilots for team battles and provides tactical support during that battle. People like Ackbar, Bel Iblis, Dodonna, Thrawn, Pellaeon, Kre'fey, Tsavong Lah etc.


eg. Team Battle.

Luke Skywalker, Wedge Antilles, Tycho Celchu, Corran Horn, Asyr Sei'lar, Kell Tainer, Face Loran, Runt Ekwesh (Admiral Ackbar) vs. Darth Vader, Soontir Fel, Maarek Stele, Turr Phennir, Broak Vessery, Shira Brie, Kasan Moor, Lorrir (Grand Admiral Thrawn)

That way you could add strategy into the equation. Although it'd probably make you hate team battles more Jello

edit2. People like

Admiral Ackbar
Garm bel Iblis
Jan Dodonna
Yoda
Oppo Rancisis
Madurrin
Streen
Traest Kre'fey
Tsavong Lah
Nek Bwu'atu
Gilad Pelaeon
Grand Admiral Thrawn
Firmus Piett

That's 13, but you'd obviously want a few more to make for better choices for a team. Basically, you'd only be able to pick one, you can pick them at any time during the draft phase, and they help with strategy and coordination during team battles

 

i think it'd be worth giving a shot. after all, if it doens't work you have a draft that proves it.

the picking eight, but using six in the actual battles could be interesting.

if you really wante to make it more so, you could use them as part of a wingpair type deal.

:snoopy

 

I like the draft the way it is- pick eight and send them all out to battle.

 

I was vocally against going to the eight pilot system, but seeing as that worked fairly well (although I do think that the last two pilots often prove useless), I say we just stick with that. No need to make this game any more complex than it is.

 

In that case, I vote for three man teams.

 

Well Shalla did get a win from forfeits and drew some of the better pilots from teams. She was useful.

The thing is that several of the top notch pilots are capable tacticians already, I don't think adding a strategist figure would be all that helpful. Now tactics could be an additional category for teams criteria (I was doing my best for that with this SFD anyways) but outside of that I don't see much use for it.

It'd be something like having squad mascots. I'd probably pick Kettch, Sey would pick her laptop. Jello would pick Typo, etc.

 

I'm really intrigued by the strategist idea, but I think we'd have to be creative concerning how we implemented it.

All I gotta say is that this new commish must be really amazing. I've heard some good things about him.

 

I know I'm brilliant, but do you really think it'd take two people to replace me

 

Could always lock you in a closet with a CD repeating Jello's greatest speeches.

 

I wouldn't say the last two pilots are useless. My team, for example, picked up Runt to make a very good trump in Kell + Runt, and also got Miko, which allowed me to pair him with Kyp so he could beat some guys he would normally just lose to.

 

I meant on an individual level. Sure, they make for better trumps, but that gives you two guaranteed losses right off the bat. And considering the competitive field of GMs that we've developed over time, it has become harder and harder to successfully grab pilots to make that perfect trump. All in all, I have to say that I preferred the 6 pilot system, but perhaps a little variety will shake up the draft a little and get some new blood flowing.

 

Under normal circumstances yeah, those last two will lose many more times than they win. However there's the trumping issue (Face and Lara, etc. Miko's bait, fresh meat ) and then sometimes they can take advantages of trumps. Say someone double trumps your squad, they hit your 1 & 2 pilots and both of their trumps lose. If either hits your 7 or 8 pilot you just got an extra win that you probably wouldn't have gotten anyways.

The reason why I like the 8 pilot draft is that it IS more difficult to pick a good team from 1-8. I enjoy that challenge.

[edit] That and it seemed to suit my drafting style anyways.

 

Well, even when it was 6 pilots per team, your last two pilots then would have been your worst two and then two guaranteed losses anyway. And because everyone is basically in the same boat, it doesn't really matter in the long run.

 

Well with 6, there was a faint chance that your 6 could beat their 1. Highly unlikely now, but it happened in the earlier EUC SFDs.

I still like 8. Now if we could only find more decent pilots.

 

I like eight. It makes team building more of a challenge.

 

Yeah I really like eight.