TL;DR Has anyone tried a 200pt Corellian Campaign using Task Force objectives? Has anyone tried an 8+ player campaign? Any tips for me getting this thing running Friday night?

With regionals and world cup going on, I didn't think I would be looking at this right now, but if you need a break from the hype and practice runs with your 400pt fleet I'm looking for some tips.

My 'local meta' used to be 2 guys. We brought a couple of dudes to a store championship 6 hours away (8.5 in the blizzard), and planned on making it back for regionals this weekend. That fell through (and I'm so sad to miss Norm, Yik, and maybe JJ at the same tourney) so I try to console myself with a 4 player 200pt Task Force tournament (thanks @Blail Blerg ) in my basement.

...And suddenly we have 8 people (possibly 10) interested in playing a 200 pt Campaign this weekend. Every person that has tried this game once in the last 3 years suddenly decides they are available to play at the same time.

/rant

THIS IS THE ONLY REASON I'M CONCERNED ABOUT ARMADA RIGHT NOW. GETTING SHIPS FOR ALL THESE NEW PLAYERS IS GETTING HARDER. I have the saved travel money to spend and several of them are willing to buy in, but key expansions are difficult to find. What a great problem to have! I don't need new, I just need a consistent supply of product for a great game that still has wide appeal.

/rant

I have not tried either 8 players or task force format for the campaign but I’ve thought a lot about the campaign in general.

It looks like you’re doing it all on one day? Either way I think you need to figure out what to do if one side is down a man.

One problem with CC is that you tend to get the same maychups over and over because of which fleets counter opposing ones best. One solution is that you keep secret which fleets are assigned to a battle until you set that match up, though with 4 players per side this may not be an issue for you.

Perhaps the biggest problem of CC seems to be the runaway leader situation. Lately I’ve been pondering this as a solution:

Once per campaign, a Grand Admiral can CALL FOR REINFORCEMENTS. For that campaign turn, if any friendly player ditches their current fleet for a new one, the new fleet is not restricted to one upgrade per ship. Furthermore, the replacement fleets may be built for more points depending upon how many campaign turns that side has been losing for

0-1 turn: +0 points.

2 turns: +25 points.

3 turns: +50 points.

4 turns: +75 points.

5 or more turns: +100 points.

Each side can do this once, and it’s more of a bonus the further you’ve been behind.

One last thing. If I were trying to fit a campaign into one day, I might include a rule like this: When a player is finished with a match, he may jump into another match at the start of its next round, deploying in his teammate’s deployment zone. The fleet carries over in the same condition it was in at the conclusion of its previous match — damaged ships and squadrons are still damaged, any expended one-use upgrades are still expended, etc.

Nice!

yeah I’d just recommend limiting how much better winning makes the winners. As you get a snowball fast and that’s generally no fun nor fun to explain to the winners why the losers suddenly don’t wanna play anymore