Profile of Strummingbird

Heavyweight: rank 1-300
Middleweight: rank 301-5000?
lightweight: rank 5001 below

...Players who are caught deliberately dropping rank to troll on lower divisions will be barred from the next 2 tourneys. Habitual delinquents shall be barred from all future tournaments.

It wouldn't be easy to catch people deliberately dropping ranks, and it would just as difficult to sieve out people who genuinely have higher ranks than their skill should reflect.

For example, let's say I have a ranking 200/150, but I only play occasionally (one or twice a week with each faction). The last people I played against and won were ranked 500-700. If I were to play with someone of my rank I highly doubt I'd put up much of a fight, and with the 'weight' category going from 1 to 300 I wouldn't have a chance in hell of winning anything with people in the top 20-50 taking part.

If I were to lose ranks (genuinely or otherwise) to 300-400, I'd stand a pretty decent chance of winning the middleweight prize instead of losing totally in the heavyweight division. I probably wouldn't have to do anything to get to rank 300+, ladder decay would do the trick all on its own.

I'd suggest that competitors have to play 5 ladder games (2/3 with either faction) maybe 2 days or less before the tournament day, as a means of qualification. Even then there's nothing (besides sportsmanship) to stop players sandbagging and playing below their true skill to qualify for a lower bracket.

Timezones are a problem with tournaments- most are geared around european timezones, which means they only start between 2am to 3am where I live. By the time a best of 3 is finished it could easily be 5+am, which means it wouldn't be possible to work the next day.

Love this thread! Glad you made it Great stuff.

Thanks and majorbloodnok those are pretty damn good

Here's a picture very well-fed Guardsman:

Thanks for the kind words folks

Nice Work. How do you create em ? Handdrawing scanned into digital or only digital.

Most of them are done digitally with a mouse, and one or two with a pencil sketch photographed as a reference point.

make a mod for unit icons to be cartoonized

I'd gladly do all the unit icons (given enough time) for a mod, if there was some way to implement it

Speaking of unit icons, here's another one of an elderly-looking shock trooper:

no commanders are P2W

i play with no bulletins selected and the first 3 German commanders on the roster

i hate to say it but if you think coh2 is p2w you need to get gud

Nonsense, you went with elite/mech assault/festung against me the other day and raged to high heaven when your sniper got mortar'd 5 times that match. You also had bulletins.

I daresay that if you think some commanders and abilities, particularly some paid ones, aren't (vastly) superior to some of the free commanders, you probably need to

get gud