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My initial opinion was that SoD is completely unsuitable for a mirror match. However, HotA is absolutely perfect:
1. You cannot take anything from under shifted guard stacks.
2. Scrolls, gr. fens, etc. are balanced by the gameplay itself.
3. Simultaneous turns, which save an hour+ of time per game.
4. Balanced starting troops.
5. Differentiation of strategies for collecting resources due to the new banks. I.e., the game doesn't turn into the standard SoD "saw beehives - run to them."
However (which is what this whole fuss is about), Sasha Num decided to have a mirror match with me, and after the game started (on turn 112, I believe), he began asking about the rules and waiting for Cobra to post them in this thread. For my part, as someone who has played 100+ games of x3dm1 in BT, it was obvious to me that everything was allowed except for obvious SoD disbalances (Diplomacy, Cloak of the Undead King, Cartographer). Fortunately, at the time of the save (115), I was unable to use any of those. And I won't (just in case).
Summary: if x3dm1 is planned for the CIS itself, the default version of this template should be HotA. Discussing the rules of a mirror match for SoD is like discussing the rules of underwater checkers.
1. You cannot take anything from under shifted guard stacks.
2. Scrolls, gr. fens, etc. are balanced by the gameplay itself.
3. Simultaneous turns, which save an hour+ of time per game.
4. Balanced starting troops.
5. Differentiation of strategies for collecting resources due to the new banks. I.e., the game doesn't turn into the standard SoD "saw beehives - run to them."
However (which is what this whole fuss is about), Sasha Num decided to have a mirror match with me, and after the game started (on turn 112, I believe), he began asking about the rules and waiting for Cobra to post them in this thread. For my part, as someone who has played 100+ games of x3dm1 in BT, it was obvious to me that everything was allowed except for obvious SoD disbalances (Diplomacy, Cloak of the Undead King, Cartographer). Fortunately, at the time of the save (115), I was unable to use any of those. And I won't (just in case).
Summary: if x3dm1 is planned for the CIS itself, the default version of this template should be HotA. Discussing the rules of a mirror match for SoD is like discussing the rules of underwater checkers.