How many players?

2 posts ยท Nov 28 1999 to Nov 28 1999

From: RWHofrich@a...

Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 22:22:23 EST

Subject: How many players?

Just to get a little dicussion going with those that write scenarios and run
games of Full Thrust...

What's the largest number of players you've had in one game? What is your
preferred number of players?

The largest game I've done so far was 10 players, but I think I prefer about
6 (three on each team)--enough for some miscommunication and fog-of-war
(no plan survives contact with...your allies) but few enough to run fairly
quickly.

Rob

From: Mark Reindl <mreindl@p...>

Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 07:51:57 -0800

Subject: Re: How many players?

The biggest we've done was eight. Unfortunately, all of the people who were
having bad luck ended up on my side (myself included) so we got worked over
pretty hard. We lost half of our fleet, and didn't even manage to take out a
single enemy ship. On one turn I rolled something like 20 dice from a single
ship and got one lousy hit. We didn't need fog of war to screw us up in that
one:). I prefer four players myself, simply because the games tend to get a
bit unwieldy if you have lots of players with lots of ships.

Mark

> RWHofrich@aol.com wrote:

> Just to get a little dicussion going with those that write scenarios