Hi Everyone,
I am new to this forum and I have to say I was sooooo excited when this game was released as i have been waiting for a 28mm miniatures game of Star Wars...
I have a group of friends and there is usually 6 of us each gaming night and I want to run a multiplayer game of SW Legion...
Does anyone here have any thoughts on how to run a 3 v 3 game ?
Cheers
That's going to be utterly miserable and I can't possibly see anyone having fun. I would say split into 3 groups or just play a different game. Then again, there are very few games I could put up with at a 6-player count. I prefer 2-4 with almost anything, and even then with most games 4 players is stretching it. That's just me, and people still buy 5-6 player expansions for games in which you already go for 15-20 minutes in between turns with 4 players.
There are rules for 4 player team battles in the rulebook, but I wouldn't recommend it starting out. Multiple 2 player games is likely to be more fun.
You could do mini skirmish tournaments, or work out some sort of campaign system to link all the games together.
My group who have been playing RPG/ war games for last 35 years do play 3v3- or even 1 v4 or 1v1v1 but usually as some kind of asymmetric scenario- evacuation- imps vs rebels but needing to recover something from kitbashed scum faction etc. As a straight war game it does get to slow but with an RPG element and different balances and some imagination it can actually be pretty cool
First off welcome to the game! It's great!
Secondly while I agree it will not be optimal and may give a bad first impression of the game, don't let others tell you how to have fun.
17 hours ago, Tirion said:First off welcome to the game! It's great!
Secondly while I agree it will not be optimal and may give a bad first impression of the game, don't let others tell you how to have fun.
This!
I’ve played multiple player games and have always had fun. It will take longer but my group has always enjoyed it. Just think it through and have fun.
Example, in past games we have had each player have a different goal or mission to contribute to the victory points. For my group it worked well.
When you run a multiplayer game, do you have an overall commander for each side?
1 hour ago, Sharkbelly said:When you run a multiplayer game, do you have an overall commander for each side?
There's no such thing as an "overall commander" in a 2 or 4 player game. Can you explain what you mean?
1 hour ago, Sharkbelly said:When you run a multiplayer game, do you have an overall commander for each side?
yes, everyone followed the normal build rules but here was 1 over all commander for the side. We wanted to try a game with 2 commanders per side but we were too slow to work that out and then quarantine happened.
1 minute ago, miridor said:yes, everyone followed the normal build rules but here was 1 over all commander for the side. We wanted to try a game with 2 commanders per side but we were too slow to work that out and then quarantine happened.
Do you mean that only one side is required to bring a unit with the Commander rank? If that's what you mean, then no, they follow all the same rules for making an army and each player's army has to have at least one unit with the rank of Commander. Once again, "over all commander" is not a thing in Legion.
3 minutes ago, arnoldrew said:There's no such thing as an "overall commander" in a 2 or 4 player game. Can you explain what you mean?
For my group the command cards were used from the player that was nominated as the "over all commander" which is what Im guessing Sharkbelly is asking.
3 minutes ago, arnoldrew said:Do you mean that only one side is required to bring a unit with the Commander rank? If that's what you mean, then no, they follow all the same rules for making an army and each player's army has to have at least one unit with the rank of Commander. Once again, "over all commander" is not a thing in Legion.
for MY group only one players command cards are used. Yes I know its not "a thing" in legion but sometimes you change it up to have fun. Its not meant for competition or anything of the sort.
Edited by miridor4 minutes ago, miridor said:For my group the command cards were used from the player that was nominated as the "over all commander" which is what Im guessing Sharkbelly is asking.
Huh. That's one way to do it, I guess. You're house ruling it at that point so there's no use asking people how your house rules work. The rules for a 4 player game in the RRG are relatively straightforward, especially with recent clarifications on edge cases that they added in the most recent edition.
Edited by arnoldrewJust now, arnoldrew said:Huh. That's one way to do it, I guess. You're house ruling it at that point so there's no use asking people how your house rules work. The rules for a 4 player game in the RRg are relatively straightforward, especially with recent clarifications on edge cases that they added in the most recent edition.
true but for the sake of discussion in my case its just to show how we implemented it. we only house ruled this part.