Multi Player games

[TheBigRedOne]

Just curious, gents, has there been much dabbling in the Squad Battles system of multi-player (MP) games? I know of the Tarawa Behemoth that did not seem to be a positive experience for some of the players.

Teams games haven't had a ton of play in the time I've been involved with the series, save some of the things that Jeff and Mark have tried to do over the last year or so. I couldn't really tell you why. Perhaps a large portion of the scenarios being moderately sized has something to do with it, but you could always play with a couple of platoon or company commanders rather than battalion or larger scale.

I think the key is to get a group of guys that know each other well and are committed to pushing out their turns as quickly as possible. If you end up with one guy who has a much lower turn rate, the game starts to grind to a halt. If you have a guy that just vanishes, then it gets even more complicated. I'm not sure where the Tarawa game broke down, but most of the team games that were attempted here dragged on quite a long time. It only takes one slow poke to really kill the momentum of a team game. Coordination is also huge, and probably requires one person on the team to act as the over-all commander coordinating things and moving his subordinates along. I don't know if that was done in the other team games, however.