How it works

Basics

Captains mode is a turn-based civilisation picker. It can also be used to draft from custom options.

The tournament Admin creates a Preset which can be used to create Drafts. During a Draft, the two captains pick, ban, steal, or snipe civilisations or options in a predefined order as per the rules in the chosen Preset to determine which civilisations will be available to each captain in a match.

For each turn captains have 30 seconds. In case of a timeout, a random civilisation or option is selected for the captain.

Host and Guest turns

Turns have a main action (PICK, BAN, SNIPE) and a few possible modifiers.

A PICK adds a usable civilisation or option for a player.

• A GLOBAL PICK or gpick prevents either player from picking the civilisation or option again in a future turn.
• An EXCLUSIVE PICK or epick prevents only the picking player from picking the civilisation or option again in a future turn.
• A NONEXCLUSIVE PICK or npick does neither of those things, meaning players are still able to pick the civilisation or option again in a future turn.

A BAN marks the civilisation or option as not available for future turns.

• A GLOBAL BAN or gban prevents either player from picking or banning the civilisation or option in a future turn.
• An EXCLUSIVE BAN or eban prevents only the opponent from picking the civilisation or option in a future turn and the player who banned the civilisation or option from banning the same civilisation or option again in a future turn.
• A NONEXCLUSIVE BAN or nban prevents only the opponent from picking the civilisation or option in a future turn, and the player may ban the the civilisation or option again in a future turn, which makes no sense, so you probably want to use EXCLUSIVE instead anyway.

A snipe allows a player to remove a civilisation or option again which the opponent has picked in a previous turn. The GLOBAL, EXCLUSIVE and NONEXCLUSIVE modifiers have no meaning here.

A steal allows a player to remove a civilisation or option which the opponent has picked (or stolen!) in a previous turn, and add it to their own picks. The GLOBAL, EXCLUSIVE and NONEXCLUSIVE modifiers have no meaning here.

Modifiers

A PARALLEL modifier means both the players to execute their turns in parallel.

A HIDDEN modifier hides the civilisation or option selected during that turn from the opponent and from spectators until it is revealed by an admin turn (see below).

An AS OPPONENT modifier means that the turn is executed by the player on behalf of their opponent. This is mainly useful to have a player pick civilisations or option for their opponent to use.

Admin Turns

Admin turns or reveal reveals the previous set of actions which were hidden.

• The REVEAL_PICKS, REVEAL_BANS and REVEAL_SNIPES turns reveal the respective hidden actions that were executed before.
• REVEAL_ALL reveals all hidden actions that were executed before.