Concise description:
Two related ideas:
In 1 v 1 games, for first turn deployments of six or more, player moving first gets half deployment.
In tournaments with series of 1 v 1 games (best of five, etc.) tournament organizer can manually assign who goes first to balance out the advantage.
Specifics/Details:
One on one games, especially in tournaments, are a staple of this site, but a significant number of maps, the ones with large initial deployments, overly reward the player who randomly gets selected to go first. I have had some tournaments decided more by this factor than by dice or strategy. When you're deploying enough in turn one to knock your opponent's deployment down by, say, two armies, before they even get to move, it can start a downward spiral that can be impossible to pull out of.
I've also played a number of tournaments when I'm playing 1 v 1 in a series, and had occasions when I moved last (or first) in 5 of 5 games. It would be terrific if the tournament admin could assign who goes first so that, say, in a five game series each player would have at least two starts (four games could be assigned, and the fifth game could be random).
Both of these ideas seem like they would be easily programmable, no?
How this will benefit the site and/or other comments:
There is enough luck in the game with the dice, we don't need this other random element to overly contribute to the outcome of one on one games.
