Council of the Wise - I'll put forward Laurence's finalied version soon.
At the end of each game players will be given the opportunity to vote for
their team-mates. Vote for players, that given their position's resources
and characteristics made the best use of that nation and best contribution
to the team.
You get to allocate 20 points for each category amongst the best players for
each of the three following ratings (not allowed to vote for yourself):
Best Individual Player :
Best Team Player:
Best Enemy Nation:
eg
Game 123 ends with a win for the Free People. Having played Northmen, my
favourite nation, with the end turn I now get a form from MEPBM asking me to
vote. Giving it some ten minutes thought I come up with:
Best Individual Player (BIP): I have 20 votes and give 10 to player Fred
Bloggs (Arthedain), 5 to player John Doe (Eothraim), 5 to player David Jones
(Noldo). I don't have to vote for all the team - I could just vote for 1, 2,
5 8, 12 (including Neutrals that joined us) or 0 - whatever takes my
particular fancy as to what BIP is.
Best Team Player (BTP): With my 20 Votes I could give 6 to John Doe
(Eothraim), 4 for John Smith (Sindar), 4 votes for Ewan McCullough (Dwarves
and North Gondor) and Padraig Murphy (South Gondor) , 1 vote for Thomas
Jones (Cardolan - knocked out on turn eight but still eligible).
Best Enemy Player (BEP): Having interacted with the Long Rider, Cloud Lord,
Easterlings (went Dark Servant on turn ten) primarily I decide to cast my
votes as follows: 6 for Long Rider, 4 for Easterling, 3 for Cloud Lord.
Over the grapevine and from emails with allies I heared that the Witch King
did a cool job in the North West so will give him 2, leaving 5 point to
allocate, which I ask the GM to allocate evenly amongst the rest of their
team (not sure how many were on their side at the end) except for Quiet
Avenger who I heard did abysmally (nil point).
This could then be read that I think that the Eothraim (John Doe) is a
better team player than an individual player but still excellent at both.
Whereas the Arthedain (Fred Bloggs) has done well for himself but not a very
good team player.
Then I fill in that form and send it back within the 2 week allowed voting
time with the following:
BIP: Fred Bloggs -10, John Doe -5, David Jones -5
BTP: John Doe-6, John Smith -4, Ewan McCullough-4, Padraig Murphy-4, Thomas
Jones-1 leaving 1 point not allocated.
BEP: Long Rider -6, Easterlings -4, Cloud Lord-3, Witch King -2 leaving 5
points to allocate to all other Dark Servants except Quiet Avenger.
Ruling: A maximum of half your points per category can go to one player.
(So that's 10 per category max per player.)
Guidelines for voting: These are some of the ones that have been suggested
as useful criteria for voting: Co-ordination, data gathering and mapping,
suggestions, overall tactics, assistance to less experienced players,
neutral wooing, error checking, morale management, skill at playing a
nation, success with nation, small scale tactics. For Enemies - impact they
had on us, interesting dialogue, fun I had playing against a particular
nation are some of the criteria you might want to
(Underlined are what I consider Individual playing skills, the others are
more team orientated aspects of play.)
We'll then take an average rating for each player over the games they have
played and use that as their three Council Ratings.