> It got very busy for me as a first time GM but Scott Field got me
> through it fine.
;-) Don't let him fool you - Mike did most of the heavy lifting on
this one.
Mike already hit the highlights. This was the first time we'd
introduced fighters for a con game. In hindsight, it might've been too
much for beginners: 8 players with fighters slowed things down enough
that we only got through a handful of rounds. Next time, we might
split them up into a beginner table (no fighters) and an intermediate
table (with fighters) so we can cycle through a turn quicker; since we
have two GMs anyway, we might as well take advantage of it, right?
Thanks again to Star Ranger for the writeups!
Scott
<>Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 11:24:32 -0700 (MST)
From: Mike Stanczyk <stanczyk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [GZG] [FT] Genghis Con AAR's?
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Genghis in Denver went well. Nobody lynched me after the game. ;-)
That's the GM's mark of success right?
We had eight players showup for the cross-over battle. Half experienced
players, half new people.
We mixed Star Wars, Star Trek and B5. With the new fighter rules,
sort of. I screwed up and mixed in some old fighter rules by mistake
but none of the players noticed.
It got very busy for me as a first time GM but Scott Field got me
through it fine. Sadly, I was so busy I have no pictures of the
battle or the players. :-(
General observations:
Grazers are nasty weapons if they strike. Of the grazer shots in the
game,
between 1/3 to 1/2 hit.
I like fighter better under the newest playtest rules, even though I
butched them, than I did before.
Laminated fighter counters with boxes for fighter count are nice. I
don't
have any fighters on stands so I made a counter with six boxes, a
picture and
laminated it. Dead fighters were marked with an overhead marker.
Worked great!
Mixing Star Trek and Star Wars led to some strange events. Tie fighters
attacking the Enterprise-D and going pop. Tie fighters vs Starfuries was
an even matchup.
Since I have questions about the new fighter rules, I'm planning on
running
a dummy game at home with the same situations I saw in the game and
post it
to the lists for comments. "Can I use a P-torp against fighters?"
Hopefully we'll have some of the players show up on the list and post
an ARR.
Mike
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