So I've gotten a few of my friends into X-Wing, and after playing the other day they wanted to play a game using ALL of my ships. I was like sure why the F not. So I sat down with my iPad and Voidstate and came up with the following squads.

Rebels:

400 points

Wedge Antilles (36)
Expose,Stealth Device

Garven Dreis (26)

Biggs Darklighter (33)
R2-D2, Shield Upgrade

Red Squadron Pilot (23)

Horton Salm (34)
Proton Torpedoes, Ion Cannon Turret

"Dutch" Vander (30)
R5-K6, Ion Cannon Turret

Grey Squadron Pilot (25)
Ion Cannon Turret

Tycho Celchu (34)
Assault Missiles, Push the Limit

Arvel Crynyd (23)

Green Squadron Pilot (20)
Veteran Instincts

Han Solo (61)
Marksmanship, Luke Skywalker, Chewbacca, Millennium Falcon

Lando Calrissian (55)
Veteran Instincts, Nien Nunb, Gunner, Engine Upgrade

Imperials:

400 points

Howlrunner (20)
Swarm Tactics

Mauler Mithel (21)
Expose

Dark Curse (16)

Backstabber (16)

Winged Gundark (15)

Night Beast (15)

Darth Vader (40)
Homing Missiles, Squad Leader, Engine Upgrade

Maarek Stele (34)
Cluster Missiles, Marksmanship

Storm Squadron Pilot (27)
Concussion Missiles

Soontir Fel (33)
Push the Limit, Stealth Device

Turr Phennir (28)
Daredevil

"Fel's Wrath" (23)

Boba Fett (62)
Concussion Missiles, Heavy Laser Cannon, Seismic Charges, Marksmanship, Weapons Engineer , Slave-1

Kath Scarlet (50)
Cluster Missiles, Ion Cannon, Seismic Charges, Veteran Instincts, Mercenary Copilot

We are gonna be playing on a 6 x 3 table and I'd be surprised if this didn't take all bloody afternoon. The 14 Imperial ships will be split between my two friends and I'll be running the 12 Rebel ships myself. If anyone's interested I can take some pics and try to write up a battle report after the carnage has ensued.

Do you really need to ask if we'd want pics and a battle report? Of course we want to see that.

Seriously! Make this happen, post haste!

Please, pics and report would be great. Also, I think you will find the game goes faster than you anticipated. When we have done large games, they have not taken much longer than standard games. When you have so many ships, nothing survives so much as a turn of focus fire.

I need pics and a BatRep!!!!!!!

I wonder how it handles at this size, it should still work fine. I wonder if like Apocalypse numbers will wittle down really fast at the start due to the ability to combine fire easily when you have so many fighters so the actual game time isn't as bad as you would think.

Count how many times you bump into your own ships. Manuevering will take 20 mins each round alone!

I echo what others have said: WE! WANT! PICS!!!

You might want to get a notebook and take notes during the battle, so you can recreate it in text...also..don't forget the pics...yesterday me and a friend were discussing using a 'scribe' to report on the battle while the players play it out....that way you should be able to record most of it.

Camera battery is charged, I'll be packing up my ships soon. I'll try to keep a tally of how many pile ups are created. Hopefully I can avoid my own ships, while the other two run into each other. Should I allow them to plan together or not?

I would allow collaboration. In fact, I think there's a rule in the core book which says that not only can they do this, but if they do they are not allowed to do it in secret.

Ya know, that sounds familiar. After I finish 3 Bounty vs. Wedge, Tycho and Dutch I'll have to look that up.

I believe they can talk all they want....just not show each other their dials.

It's on page 20 SRB.

The game lasted 10 turns. It's was a bloody and brutal affair and no Bothans were spared. I'll get the report done up in the morning, full of pics.

I believe they can talk all they want....just not show each other their dials.

We were both right:

"SHARING INFORMATION

Players on the same team may strategize against their opponent(s). Players are free to discuss any information with teammates (and opponents), but all discussion must take place in public (i.e., their opponent(s) must be able to hear all discussion). Also, teammates cannot show each other the maneuver chosen on their dial(s)."

My general rule is if it's 2 players against 1, then I would allow them to confer in Secret (and even show dials), as long as they are fast. The single player otherwise would have a big advantage as he know where everything is going.

If it's 2v2 then I would do it like it says in the Rules, as having an inability to communicate and things crashing into each other all other the place is cool.

The other thing you could do is allow each side to go away from the table to confer for a set time, but once they have used that time they are not allowed to confer once they get back to the table and start setting dials. That also could be quite fun. And I think could be much faster.

In otherwords even though there are set Rules in the Rule Book, with large games do what works for you.

I believe they can talk all they want....just not show each other their dials.

Honestly they can do whatever they want. No FFG officials slapping them in the face every time they violate some rule XD.

Battle report is now up in the BR section. Sadly I had some issues with the pictures, so I'm gonna try and clear some of them up later this week.

http://community.fantasyflightgames.com/index.php?/topic/89700-go-big-or-go-home-the-battle-report/