The Shadow Wars will be eight evenings over four weeks.
Each side represents either the UN or the Cartel. They each begin with access to four gene lines, which represent specialists.
UN: Angel, Boris, Blasco, Mackay
Cartel: Irish, Crawford, Rao, Dozer.
Matches 1, 2, 4, and 6 will allow the teams to fight for the exclusive use of a number of new gene lines, which will be added to their options for all subsequent matches.
Specialists that can be won exclusively: Caspar, Paik, Zain, Sundance.
Matches 3 and 5 will not be played as competitive, team against team, matches. Instead they will be coop matches. If the teams win the match against the AI, then both teams win use of the gene line. If they fail, neither get to use it.
Specialists that can be won by both teams: Falck, Liz.
Matches 4 and 6 have an additional mechanism added on. The LOSER of each of those matches gets to choose a vehicle type to remove from subsequent matches. This represents the problems of maintaining complex military equipment in a world in ruins.
The four vehicle types are:
1. Jets, Hind and Condor.
2. All choppers, except Hind
3. MBTs
4. Light Armored vehicles (includes MAV, RAM, etc, but excludes jeeps.)
Matches 7 and 8 will be played with no further changes, but with both teams enjoying the results of their work over the preceding games.
Scoring will be simple for all matches except 3 and 5. One point for a win on the night. The coop matches will receive scores, but in a different way.
The players who get on the end of round slide show (most kills, most revives, most objectives) will earn a half point for their team for each one. Thus coop matches have 1.5 points on the table to play for.
Other than that, all other standard TAW type rules and customs for internal competitions will be followed. Especially the one that says FS decision is final, but he is friendly and approachable, so plead your case. I'm sometimes merciful.
The first match will be Noshahr canals, conquest, with Caspar as the gene line to play for.
"What's the point of being a grown up if you can't act like a child?"