You can save time in terms of using differently colored dice instead of tokens. A different color dice for each token type. that way, you can just flip the dice instead of taking and adding and so forth of the tokens. Not a LOT of time, but enough where it might help.

I played a game with 4 players, each with their own army of 800 points and we played as normal except one person was an ally and the other two were opponents. We played Command Cards as normal and rolled off until there was a pecking order each turn. There were 2 rebel and 2 imperial (I was actually on the 2 imperial side). It was a lot of fun, but we had to pack it in early since after 3 hours, the place where we were playing was going to close. I totally recommend playing multiplayer.

I think maybe for most multiplayer games it would be better to play 500 points each since time usually is an issue, but once in a while a big game can be a lot of fun. I would love to try a 500 point multiplayer where healing or using things like Spotter or Inspire can be used on an ally’s troops and even Clones can share from one ally to the other, but everything else is as normal. That would be a lot of fun.