Tomorrow a local bar is letting me set up a 3x6. I invited a smattering of people at all skill levels between " has tournament exp" through " X-Wing? Is that the you spaceship game you play?"

So...what to do...people will come at random times with random backgrounds.maybe...I set a huge ship at each far end and its a race to kill the other teams stationary "king". Adding a new ship to. Team via coin flip as a player arrives?

Or do I...take a good squad and its everyone vs. me ?

Maybe...faction based three way battle?

I'll take any suggestions you fine folks may have!

Have a pile of ships and their cards n stuff ready for players to choose a ship. When they are destroyed, allow them to respawn either as a new ship or as the same one. This allows players to join in and drop out without spoiling the game.

Have the stationary huge ships indestructible until all escorts are destroyed or when you're ready to end the game, but suppressed by enemy fire.

i like the timing aspect with the huges..

maybe something like...they arent even there until ..oh whatever...2 hous into the match. or like you said ..some condition is met...destroying/collecting mission tokens....killing something specific...etc.

each side has a `something`..when X occurs to it the next level happens.....then etc. etc. until epic ship appears.

maybe some sort of football analogy.....carrying something across the map

You said scouts. Lol.

You definitely want pre-drawn lists. That way people can get into the game with minimum fuss. Even experienced players will appreciate it.

I think I'd have 2 experienced "moderators" (yourself and another person willing to help out) build 2 lists, each having 150 point epic ships- either all on 1 ship or split among 2 epic ships (so either just the CR-90, _or_ the CR90 + GR75)- and have each of those lists be if different factions.

Then I'd create 4-5 (roughly) 50 point lists per faction. One list might be just Fat Han! But another could be 3 Academies + Howl.

Have "entry zones" marked on the table for the Imperial and Rebel fleets. When someone new joins, let them hyper jump to that entry area. If it's ships without a hyper drive, have a Gozanti drop them off, then jump out next turn.

Remember: FFG rules are very clear: when playing with more than 1 player per side, all comms are open and transmitted in the clear.

Oh, yes, and: I'm super jealous!!

I'm starting to think that for simplsake(I imagine this will turn into a drinking game pretty quick) all the ships will be naked.

One thing we did with a large multiplayer game recently was to have an 'event' deck, and each team would draw a card at the start of the round. And each card would have an effect like "add one red dice to all attacks your team makes this round" or "cancel one [evade] result each time a ship on your team is defending against an attck" or "all ships on your team get a focus token". That sort of stuff. It's lots of fun.

I like that idea. Plus instead if individual upgrade cards this works as a whole team upgrade.

I might make a short list and roll a ' chance cube' against it every other turn

A fur-ball of some kind might be fun!

Set each person up with an equally priced ship around 25~35pts. Record a point for a kill and the dead pilot comes back next turn on their board edge.

It's easy to add new players as they arrive too.

Or same thing but each player also gets a "wingman" ship to fly along next to them Top Gunn style.

I think people do 60pts for 2 small ships.

Or maybe running the first mission of Heroes of the Aturi Cluster!
It's a lot of fun and I've heard it's a good way to teach people the game.

Sounds fun! Let us know how it goes.

Well that went really well. Thanks for the advice fellas!

Played for like 8 hours ...there was still a few drunks at the bar playing until bar close.but I'm old and got tired by midnight.

Warm ups and teaching a couple new guys....

Hunger games super brawl begins!

I didn't look up how to ACTUALLY do hunger games, kind of winged it.everyone got a naked ship of their choice. We set up in a circle with ships at the close edges facing backwards so they had to turn around to get at the upgrade piles. This balanced very well as everyone got into upgrades at the same time.

The fog of vodka is making any sort of detailed report very difficult.but it started with...

Poe ,Miranda,corran horn,vader,soontir fel,dengar and kath scarlet.

I felt like taking the handicap of flying a naked soontir.t he upgrades were scattered in a loose pile facedown in the middle. We played " if your maneuver ends on top of a card you immediately equip it. If the base touches multiple you choose one. Since there were a couple large bases in play this worked well.

Some memorable combos that occured was poe Cameron with TLT, vader with threepio crew, soontir fel with....vectored thrusters..(sigh...so close but wrong thrusters) kath scarlet with autothrusters (sigh),corran lucked into FCS,

So...I ducked into the upgrade o' copia and "emperor be praised!" Soontir fel has gained push the limit! It's a dark and glorious day!

Many table talk alliances and "I won't shoot you this turn if you promise to shoot whoever shoots me next" type of shenanigans are taking place between several players.

But... vader said NOPE and vaporised fel before he got to ptl even once.

So..it's hunger games..and hunger games twists things around halfway through.so...the first two people that died ..renters the game in...a raider and a cr90.

And...they were faction bound...so the raider could only shoot the rebels and the cr90 could only shoot the empire and the firespray.

This had the players needing to real fast abandon their table talk alliances and get factions real fast.

Once there was only two original competitors left the huge ships vanished and it was a 1v1 duel to the finish.

With Vader pulling a super risky k turn right into kath scarlet range one rear arc.kath with fearlessness and 2hull left...vader with threepio crew and cluster missles..

Vader rolls...hit hit crit.kath gets one evade...and that's all she wrote.

Madness!

Looks great.

Ha! Looks like fun. I love the super casual events with new people thrown in.

So...did you get any new players that were interested?

Yes sir. A new core set was purchased at the LGS a block away. Social media took over after a while and three others showed up to see the game.

The regulars at the bar occasionally looked over but they are a "beer and football" sort of crowd,(it's Wisconsin after all) so they didn't really care about it.

But, the gal that won the event flying vader was brand new.

I know there was still core set matches going on until 3am.