Mango Polo fucked around with this message at 20:44 on Mar 25, 2016

Hencoe fucked around with this message at 02:51 on Mar 29, 2016

• The character advancement system rewards too heavily. We toned it down, but I don't feel it was enough. Everyone will have 6 or more by the time we're through. Some of the advancements are also really bad. I'd create custom tables and turn every game you play into a dice roll. If you attack you get an advancement point on 3+, if you defend on a 4+. Maybe with modifiers like being in combat or sweeping a unit to increase your roll. I don't want to over-complicate it, but the bottom line is that progression needs to get slowed down and reward people for not babying characters.
  
• The core missions seem familiar, but they aren't. Set aside time before each game to make sure everyone understands what they are playing. Get verbal agreement and get attention even if it annoys people. We had a lovely situation where the rules got read off before the game, but one of the teams didn't really pay attention or assumed they knew it. Halfway through the game there was another reminder, but it wasn't taken seriously. Bottom line- nobody was happy by the end and it wasn't fair for either group.
  
• If you run a long campaign there needs to be agreement for how to handle re-mustering of units, book updates, or FAQs. Before we even started Stanyer asked to use his real legion rules once they dropped, but we hadn't though about how this would affect his muster. He ended up switching things around to have a legal army. It was easy to resolve by committee, but in bigger groups this won't work. Panascope was cheating up his unit muster a few turns into the campaign. Again, no big deal if everyone knows everyone or really cares, but you need rules for that sort of thing if you're playing with strangers who take their toys super seriously.
  
• Mission 6 needs tweaks to work fairly. As it stands, it's basically a mission that comes down to how well you roll dice at the very end of the game on a table. We tweaked it so that you uncover the value of each objective once you walk up to it (a-la mysterious objectives). Anything that gives players a chance to react to the objectives should work here.
  
• We haven't played "Ambush!' but it might be one you reserve for special missions as it favors one side.
  
• There needs to be a runaway game option for loosing teams. Our campaign isn't lopsided yet, but it very well could be. There should be an all-or-nothing option in the case the campaign needs to end or is too far skewed in one direction. The book 5 campaign system has some ideas for this, but it's not really elegant. I'd consider something like trading in all your reserve points for a single massive battle- each strategic objective the loosing side controls gives them a perk, but they can only tie the campaign. Or, each strategic objective the winning side controls has some perk, but if the looser wins they get a pyrrhic campaign victory.