Relic Knights Week: Getting Into Organised Play & Tournaments
January 20, 2017 by dignity
Justin discusses with John Cadice from Ninja Division the ways in which Relic Knights players can organise games and tournaments including the use of tournament kits and becoming a member of the Ninja Corps!
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We also take a look at the Relic Knights companion app and how it can benefit players of the game.
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- 4 x Two Player Packs – Starter Forces Of Your Choice + Rules
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1 x Star Prize – Two Player Starter Set Of Awesomeness – Expanded Forces of the Winners Choice + Rules AND he/she gets to work with the design team to Create A Character for Relic Knights!
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1 x Star Prize – Two Player Starter Set Of Awesomeness – Expanded Forces of the Winners Choice + Rules AND he/she gets to work with the design team to Create A Character for Relic Knights!
Have you ran a Relic Knights Tournament?
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I wonder if there are enough people in my country to run a tournament
Will the improved app give me the option to tap a keyword/symbol on a card and give the explanation?
Great info here
The companion app is a fantastic idea. It must take a lot to develop a good one but it adds so much to a game, just the searchability in text is huge. The idea of the faction fiction finder is really cool as well. Being able to give someone a tablet will help get more people to pick it up and good for multiplayer games.
Hope to see some tournaments soon around here.
I always want to do tournaments and get super into one game, but the people I play with are too hobby ADD. We play one game one week, another the next and it’s hard to get everyone on the same page.
To be honest a lot of other games could benefit for the idea of digital dashboards. I think its a great idea especially if you learning new games systems
The Idea of 4 players worth of minis going at it, thats a cluster fudge! I know I wouldn’t be able to keep my eye on any kind of goal but I know people out there would. It would be hella lotta fun to try but it would fry any ability with tactics I have haha
Same here. It would surely be a great fun, but I don’t think I would even bother with fulfilling objectives. I would just try to mess with the plans of the others! ^^
While having three different objectives can be confusing, quite often your primary will require three different units to be working towards it at the same time, so you can focus on that and ignore the others if you like. In general, I’ve found that ignoring my opponent and focusing on what I’m doing works better than trying to hinder them, especially if you’re just starting out and getting used to your units.
Interesting thought!
I have to try that some time: Focusing on what I am doing. 😀
LOL, okay, that sounded really condescending advice when you put it that way, which I didn’t mean it to be. Especially in Relic Knights V1.0 (less so in 1.5 due to Guards and Redirects being weakened) I found it possible to almost ignore what my opponent was doing and just look at where I needed to go in order to get my objectives. It’s not the best way to play, but I found it very helpful when I was learning what my units could do. I’m sure not all cadres will work so easily that way, but because all models… Read more »
@shinygames:
I was only joking! 😉
Thanks for sharing your thoughts about the game! It always helps me to hear what strategies work in a game, when I am thinking of starting it. Which faction did you play then?
@uezguersmaster I was playing with Shattered Sword, with Jeanne Romee as my Questing Knight. With Navarre Hauer and Paragons by her side, she has a core of three units that are very mobile and can get around to the various objectives. A unit of Swordsworn is really useful to have around for protection duties too, and in reserve if necessary.
With all the effort gone into organizing this game, its a shame it isn’t already bigger.
Vapnartak, York UK Sunday 5th feb ( see the web site for more info )
I am running a tournament
Even if you are not taking part and are at the event come up to the top floor and take a look at the game in swing.
Some good ideas here
I own the app and was very happy with it when it released but having it go without updates for over a year has soured me to it quite a bit. I hope Ninja Division and Underbite commit to keeping the app up to date from the point of re-launch on.
When the app is current it is glorious, when it was neglected the whole game felt neglected.
I would love more tournaments. Hoping to build up a player base in my community soon!
The app is cool, is there going to be another kickstarter for v2 and the starter sets
tournament support is always key, love the painting tips part too
Organized play is a must for any successful table top game. So glad to see Relic Knights has it. I’m interested to see what organized play looks like for SDE. Lol. The companion app is great and I can’t wait for the update. Currently there’s a bunch of units missing like Dan D Starship and all the various cosplay figures. Although I’m a little confused by the fact that I can get the pdf of the rules for Relic Knights for free from their website but their companion app wants me to pay for them… if I do buy the… Read more »
@invictus: I think you only have to pay for it, because you have to buy the fiction too. It would be nice if you could read the free version in the app.
I dont really go in for proper tournaments but a compaion app grabs me.
Four-way finals table for tournaments could be an interesting way to go.
There aren’t any players in my region. 🙁
For those in the UK who interested in tournament play you are in luck. We have a small but perfectly formed tournament scene here which usually gathers together once every 2-3 months. It’s a relaxed and friendly atmosphere perfect for beginners. We’ve even had several people have their very first game of RK at one of the tournaments, and cadres can be lent if you have no minis and want to try it out. No-one goes away empty-handed, with prizes like the patches and more given out. As Ninja Cy says a few comments up, the next tournament is at… Read more »
Thanks @redben for putting the link in ( face palm moment )
Sounds like a great community, thanks for the facebook link.
The app has a full painting guide in it? let me at it!
I’m heading to Vapnartak (it’s the most ‘local’ show to me!) as usual, so I’ll be sure to have a nose about upstairs at the tourney! 🙂
It looks a little bit too freeform for a tournament scene. Most games that are a board-token -ump are. Do you have people bring in fresh esper decks to keep people from running a funky or marked deck?
And has playtesting prevented the formation of irritating ‘drag it out forever’ or ‘omni-denial you can’t do anything ever’ armies?
We don’t check the decks. I play a lot of card game tournaments and have never been in one where everyone’s deck gets checked, and in RK it’s nowhere near as big a deal to cheat with your deck as it would be in a CCG/LCG. The only times I have had a deck check in a CCG/LCG is when I’ve made it to the cut in a major tournament, and if RK tournaments get to that point then I can see it happening then too. In small local tournaments I’ve never had it. There is no omni-denial cadre in… Read more »
At events I run I bring extra decks, if anyone has a problem with a deck I will lone one. Cards get worn or lost more than “fixed” so it’s always a good idear to check you have a full un marked deck before play that way no fingers get pointed.
But as Ben points out its small relaxed and friendly.
Malifaux also uses a deck of cards and they have no problems with that during tournaments
The digital support products for this game sound awesome. I might just install the app to have a closer look at the game and learn more about it. Even though I don’t play it (yet).