Revolts

Revolts are complex, but they are actually quite simpler than the Brawl itself! The most notable difference is that they are for the most part deterministic. That is, there’s almost no dice rolling: if you know who’s taking part, you can calculate the results beforehand.

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Backing

Any User who has a Band in a District, may back any other User who also has one. This can be done from the District page. "Yourself" and "nobody" are valid targets.

While there is currently no limit on how often you can change backing, please do not abuse it. That’s because every time you do, other interested parties will get a notification. Spamming will lead to horrible things.

Any User who is backing themselves may start a revolt, if there isn’t already one ongoing. These Users will automatically join the fight:

• Anyone backing who started the revolt.
• The current Chief, if any.
• Anyone backing said Chief.

Everyone else has the option to join manually. You cannot start a revolt on behalf of somebody else.

If you start backing someone already involved in a local revolt, your Bands will immediately join the fight.

If you join an ongoing fight, anyone backing you will automatically join too.

You cannot change backing while you are fighting. You cannot retire. You cannot move away Bands (but you can move more in).

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Warmup phase

The warmup phase will last 4 days.

Nothing happens during the warmup phase. It’s just there to give everyone the opportunity to join before anything happens. That’s the point.

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Phases and Cycles

Every day there is a Phase, which determines which damage and initiative value every Band will use.

The first is always Phase 1.

Every day, after the fight, Phase is increased by 1. However, if no involved Band has that, nor other higher positive phases in their profile, then Phase becomes 0. Example:

• We are at Phase 1. There’s one Band with a Phase 2 stat block. We advance to Phase 2.
• We are at Phase 1. No Band has a Phase 2 stat block, but there’s a Band with a Phase 3. We advance to Phase 2.
• We are at Phase 1. Every Band involved only has Phase 1 or Phase 0, no other higher number. We go to Phase 0.

After Phase 0 there is always Phase 1, and the Cycle is incremented by 1.

The Cycle starts at 1, and it’s just a measure of how many "full cycles" has this Revolt gone though. Note that different Cycles may have different day durations, since new Bands may join, or others may be Defeated.

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Fight!

A random Leader attribute is selected for the whole revolt (among power, dexterity, fitness).

Bands act in order of initiative, based on which Phase it is. Higher goes first. Initiative is capped by current squatter amount: a Band with 40 squatters left and 53 initiative will act at 40.

The active Band will pick a random opponent:

• The damage of the active Band is capped by its squatters left (if they have 80 damage but 50 squatters left, it’s 50).
• It’s then multiplied by its daily attribute, and divided by the opponent’s, example:
  • 50 damage
  • Daily attribute: dexterity
  • Band’s dexterity: 120
  • Target’s dexterity: 80
  • 50 * 120 / 80 = 75
• The result is the amount of target’s eliminated squatters (i.e. the target had 200 squatters, they got 75 damage, now they have 125 squatters left).

Every Band will act if they have any squatter left. Otherwise they are declared defeated and removed from the fight.

If a Band has 0 power in a phase, they won’t do any damage (but are still valid targets).

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Ending

If there are no opponents left, the revolt ends immediately.

Otherwise, the largest faction wins the revolt if all of these conditions are met:

• They have at least 3 times the amount of squatters of everyone else combined.
• It’s at least cycle 2.
• It’s at least day 5.

The winner becomes the new District Chief. Among the Chief’s Leaders, the one with the most maximum squatters becomes the new Arena Chief:

• This is true even if they had 0 squatters left.
• Only the Leaders directly employed by the Chief are eligible: those of other backers aren’t.

The new Arena Chief receives a few benefits:

• They’ll recruit new squatters from the local supporters, up to 50% of their squatter maximum.
• This allows the Band to exceed its maximum, but it’s only a temporary boost: they’ll slowly decrease to their normal max value.
• They’ll be able to increase their squatter maximum at the expense of defeated and annihilated bands:
  • Annihilated Bands (on any side) will transfer 2 max squatters.
  • Other Bands on the losing sides will transfer 1 max squatters instead.
  This effect is permanent.

Annihilated bands will leave their employer’s service. That’s those with 0 squatters left, not everyone on the losing sides! This does include annihilated bands on the winning side, though.

Any Band which has suffered casualties will slowly regenerate them, up to their max. Bands do not regenerate squatters while fighting.

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Arena Chiefs

Once a Leader becomes Arena Chief, the contract with their employer changes.

The Band is now garrisoned in the Arena:

• There will no longer be a time limit: they’ll just stay there defending the Arena until they are defeated.
• The will no longer require any periodic payment (neither in gold nor in 🍍 ).
• They will take a cut of the profits (this is currently not implemented, as the profits themselves aren’t either) .

If you win defending, but one of your Bands is larger than the current Arena Chief… they’ll become the new one, and the old one will leave your service anyway!