60 points at once, or 20 as reinforcements?

By Sir Travelot, in Imperial Assault Skirmish

Hi guys,

My friends and I are playing a campaign that incorporates IA, X-Wing and Armada. It's focussed on having fun, so a bit different to tournament list building.

We're about to have our first game of IA that goes above the standard 40 points.

Has anyone done this before? Would you suggest that we just deploy everything, or keep 20 points off the table and deploy them when units die, such that a side never had more than 40 points on the table at a time?

Cheers for any suggestions

Just for the record, we capped the forces at 40 points on the table at a time, with reserves able to deploy at the start of a new turn, provided that adding that unit to the board didn't take either team over 40 points of deployed figures.

The game was a blast, the Empire took some nasty losses in the first turn, but they reinforced with an ATST and it was on for young and old again. Turned out to be a very close game that the rebels won on objective VP.

I enjoyed it, as the reinforcements tended to balance out swings of luck and keep everyone playing (we had 3 players per side).

Edited by Travman

(I think I overheard that Legion has some kind of reinforcement mechanism.)