Re: Card initiative

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>>Giving the command units an 
>>interrupt, and letting overwatch/reaction fire 
>>take place, does make for a faster game.
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>How did you handle leader interrupts? Could they interrupt anything at
any
>time, or could they only interrupt in certain circumstances?
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>I'm thinking that I'd let them jump in and activate before any other
unit
>activated, however I would not let them activate in the middle of
another
>unit's activation (i.e. after a unit used one action).
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>Do you allow interrupts during interrupts? For instance, if a card for
Blue
>was drawn, and Red decided to interrupt with a leader before Blue's
unit could
>activate, could Blue then turn around and activate a leader to
interrupt Red's
>leader activation?
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>
There is a major problem in using cards to activate units. With lets say

8 units (cards) total and
highly experienced players (1 - 2 minutes per unit) a turn could be 
completed 8 to 16 minutes
with average of 12 minutes. Thus your local game would show cards to 
work out extremely
well.

Now go to a convention with six people per side (12 units - cards) and 
people with
various experiences (1 to 5 minutes per unit) and a turn could take from

12 to 60 minutes
with average of 30 minutes. The problem is that for 90% of that time 
most of the people
are sitting around doing nothing. Nothing makes a game die faster then 
doing nothing.

The record waste of time game I've been to was after waiting 30 minutes 
I went out and
ate lunch came back after 45 minutes and still had to wait to move.

Scott Siebold