cbaxter wrote:
Last night my father, a friend and I played a 500 point battle. It was alot of fun.
We did several things which helped make the game run smooth. First I bought a battlemat for playing D&D. I bought the biggest one I could find, which is a 2ft by 3ft mat. Then we threw out 3D terrain. If you going to play a battle this big having 3D terrain is a must. We also limited the mounth of uniques to no more than 200points. This helps made sure that
the entire jedi counsel wasnt assaulting and a 500point army of 4 point battle droids. (but that might be a cool senerior).
Then for activations we had each did break their side up into 10 squads or around 50points each. Some squads had like 1 figure other squads had like 10 figures. Then when you did activations you activated 2 squads at a time. This helped the game go faster. Now if a figure helped another though combining fire he couldnt activate when his squad did. It was a blast. We even though in objectives. It was really wicked when Mace Windu got the drop on about 12 battle droids or having multiple vehicles roaming around blasting things. It was over in like two turns. It was really impressive to field like 40-50 figures of all diffrent strengths and weaknesses. It was like a real battle instead of just squad on squad.
The only hard part is remembering all the comander effects.
Craig
WOW! Why didn't I ever think of this?
It sounds really fun. I will have to try this very soon. Did you buy the map online or at you LGS?
Activating a squad at a time... cool.