2 hours ago, Mep said:

A full 6 rounds takes longer than 2.5 hours and the game plays different when you only have 3-4 rounds to play rather than 6.

Too bad the official length of a round in a tournament is only 2.5 hours.... I wonder if the playtest armies that were used to arrive at that time had significantly fewer activations than what many people seem to be playing now that the game is out.

@Caimheul1313 Hard to know what the play testers were doing or if they even bothered to time the games out. They are play testing after all, and should be taking notes, looking at rules, etc. I think 2.5 hours is just how long they think people will be willing to pay a game.

I've... never had a game not finish six rounds on time.

11 hours ago, Mep said:

@Caimheul1313 Hard to know what the play testers were doing or if they even bothered to time the games out. They are play testing after all, and should be taking notes, looking at rules, etc. I think 2.5 hours is just how long they think people will be willing to pay a game.

Also likely that 2 hours is the time limit they settled on in order to keep the tournaments to a reasonable length. At some point though, the playtesters are probably just be playing the game, only taking notes when things go wrong, or observations afterwords. Or having a third party make notes while two people play.

4 hours ago, svelok said:

I've... never had a game not finish six rounds on time.

On time being exactly 2 hours? Interesting.

Follow up questions spawned out of curiosity: Roughly how many activations a side? Was terrain pre-set or did you use the setup rules?