You may concede at the start of any of your team turns. However, doing so means that:
- The opposition is awarded one touchdown, and any touchdowns your team has scored are voided and awarded to the opposition. (page70 = If your team was awarded any touchdowns as a result of the opposition conceding the game you may allocate each touchdown to a player of your choice and give them SPP accordingly.)
- You are unable to award an MVP to any of your players.
- You do not generate any winnings. (page69 = Note that, if one team conceded, Fan Attendance is not divided by two. Instead, the full amount is awarded to the winning team.)
- Your Dedicated Fans characteristic is reduced by D3 (to a minimum of 1).
- Finally, roll a D6 for each of your players that has gained three or more advancements:
- On a roll of 1-3, the player quits the team in disgust. Immediately delete the player from your Team Draft list.
- On a roll of 4+, the player remains with the team.
- If a player concedes a match, they immediately lose the game. [errata]
WITHOUT PENALTY [page 40]:
Note that should a team find itself reduced to only three players or fewer, it may concede without penalty before setting-up.
Question: Which bullets are considered as penalty? Everything else but "lose the game"?
I have also seen couple of tournaments which give -15 tournament points when conceding. Any idea is there some general consensus does this also concerns merciful conceding? Or is this also penalty and thus not affecting?
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I just played my first match with Vampire and game was 2-2 when I was setting up my 4 last players against 11 elves. I can imagine future matches where TD's are 2-2 and I'm setting three or less players against full team. So merciful conceding might be valid option. I think the result will be then my (normal) lose 2-2. (Without conceding the most probable outcome would be 2-3 my lose, plus some heavy beating)