Automated LAN Party – Picking a version of Tribes to run to replace 1.3

Good morning. I'm working on an automated LAN party software that allows a VM, or hardware server to host locally ran dedicated servers, and downloads to clients at events for quick and easy access to old games. We've had tribes 1.3 on there for awhile, but the current community patches don't seem to like LAN play. Looking to either go to Tribes 2 – TribesNext, or possibly ReVengeance. Whatever has the easier setup for dedicated servers on windows.
The question to figure out which we should use would be which has better LAN support, holds more people, and that I could pull statistics for online /offline / player count / map information for our server status intranet page.