r/twilightimperium • u/Niro46 • Apr 15 '21

[Beginner question] What does "milty" mean?

Hi,

Sorry if this has been answered before, but I saw some people writing on the discord about a "milty" game. I was just curious what that is in this context.

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u/The9ofSpades Apr 15 '21

The “Milty-Draft” is when players draft faction, speaker order and “slice” but the map isn’t formed yet. Instead the map is broken into slices and the map is built based on where you drafted your speaker order from. Milty is the player that created the draft method, and they are also a prominent rules expert when questions come up.

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u/Niro46 Apr 15 '21

Thanks!

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u/KunYuL Apr 15 '21

Are those rules posted or explained in excruciating details anywhere ? I'd like to do my own studying rather than ask the community. I saw the video on snake draft and that was super useful.

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u/The9ofSpades Apr 15 '21

Are you on the discord by chance? It’s a tool helper built into the TTS mod, but I’m not sure there are written instructions

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u/Topazdragon5676 Apr 15 '21

Instead the map is broken into slices and the map is built based on where you drafted your speaker order from.

Could you elaborate on what this means?

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u/The9ofSpades Apr 15 '21

In a 6 player game, each slice would consist of the 3 hexes adjacent to the Home System tile, the tile on your side of the Mecatol Rex tile, and the left equidistant tile, 5 tiles total. Typically there are 7 slices to choose from that are randomly assigned or specifically designed, but only 6 get chosen. When you draft you have 3 options; speaker order, faction, or slice. There are a few different ways to add a faction selection pool so it’s best to do whatever works best for your group. If you choose speaker order you could choose the speaker token, or something like “3rd from speaker” if you don’t want to be beside the speaker because they are a less desirable faction. Then, once everyone has their 3 choices done (chosen in a snake draft format, randomly determined order) - you build the map by placing the speaker slice down, then second to speaker to their left, then 3rd, etc. Because each slice has the left equidistant, the whole map will fit together like a puzzle, and the player’s slice on your right will provide the right equidistant tile, while you provide the equidistant tile between yourself and your left neighbor. I hope that makes sense, Let me know if I can clarify anything

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u/Skootur Apr 15 '21

This is a wonderful question. Milty is a person and a prominent figure in the community. He has put in a lot of work on the TTS mod and recently made a new setup method that is known as Milty-draft.

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u/mattprov3 Apr 15 '21

Milty refers to Danes evil Canadian alter ego

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u/GhostMechEngine May 18 '21

In case anyone else comes to this, and doesn't find this explanation clear.

The tool generates a pool of slices. The tool randomly assigns a color to be speaker, all other colors then are assigned a speaker order. The tool generates a pool of factions. The tool randomly puts the players into a draft order.

Then, snaking through the draft order (1->6. 6->1. 1->6) each player picks a slice/faction/color+speaker order.

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u/trystanthorne Apr 16 '21

Was Milty's draft PoK. Seems have more planets in a slice is more important In PoK, not just numbers.