Hi all,
Having started playing FFG SWRPG late last year, I’m slowly getting a hang of the system and feel ready to tackle a mass combat. I do, however, struggle with deciding what the two fighting sides’ strengths should be; I mean, I read and understand the rules, but building the pools seem a bit random and arbitrary to me. The rules are primarily concerned with what’s the most powerful/central combat force is on either side, but that doesn’t feel intuitive to me… Well, in any case, how would all y’all “stat” the two sides as laid out below?
For flavor, I want the battle to be very hard for the Rebels, with the PCs finding opportunities to tip the scale at various key points. Rebels fight for their survival while the Imperials fight conservatively and are willing to concede victory and bugger off if things go badly. Discuss!
IMPERIALS
(attacking through jungle)
2x AT-ATs
120x Stormtroopers
5x Journeymen Bounty Hunters (Rivals)
1x Death Trooper (Rival)
2x Special Forces/Elite Scout Troopers w/speeder bikes (Rivals)
1x Imperial Intelligence Agent (Rival)
1x ISB Colonel (Nemesis & Leadership 3)
REBELS
(defending Whisper Base, w/energy shield & two anti-aircraft Light Turbolaser Batteries)
1x captured AT-ST
41x Alliance Infantry w/6 speeder bikes
25x Weakened Alliance Infantry recovering from injury (Average Severity Critical Injuries)
40x Very weakened Alliance Infantry recovering from serious injury (Hard Severity Critical Injuries)
15x Farmer militia volunteers
1x IG-RM-Series Enforcer Droid (Rival)
+PCs (Leadership 2)
In addition, there will be some space-ships fighting it out overhead, but I intend to disregard these in the Mass Combat check and have the ship combat be mostly PC driven narrative relevance to the battle (if that makes sense). These will be 12x TIES, 2x Imperial Gozanties, & 1x VT-49 Decimator vs. (potentially) 2x captured Lambda shuttles, 1x X-Wing starfighter, 5x Headhunter starfighters; the Gozanties & Decimator will probably hang back as they're the Imp's ticket off the planet.
Edited by angelman2