MP: VS League

[Squirrelloid]

I think both players should be randomly assigned a nation. This is a question about your skill at dominions, not your skills with nation X.

I wouldn't be opposed to announcing publicly which nations both players had been assigned before pretender design, but I honestly think it could be a lot of fun to hide that information until discovered in game.

Lets be honest, the only difference between this and a larger MP game is you know the other person is going to be at war with you immediately. If you can't defend a rush when you know its coming, you'd just be hosed in a larger game if one did come for you.

The advantage to hiding nations is that you might not know your opponent is going to have a good rush nation, but if he's rushing you he also doesn't know what he's going to run into. And a rush sort of presumes he knows where to go - if he rushes away from you not only has he failed to rush you, he's also weakened his position because he had to pay some opportunity costs to have a good rush.