Lorthanoth said:
Longest initiative track.... ever
My eyes boggled when I saw it. This has to be the largest 3E combat I've ever been in!
Eight sailors, five PCs, ~4 patrons at immediate risk. I didn't include brother Egil though.
I've had fun with a lot of big chaotic fights.
My high level group recently fought a dozen duergar rogue fighters, a duergar barbarian dragonslayer, and two tiefling warlocks. Earlier they had taken over an asherake airship with multiple sorcerers of three different level varieties, a fighter rogue asherake leader, an asherake barbarian subleader, asherake barbarian elites, a ton of standard asherake warriors, a couple of frostbiter attack beasts, summoned dire bats to counterstrike on the invisible PC arcane trickster, and a dozen chained slaves aboard who sometimes got used as living bombardments. Both of those were a lot of fun to run, lots of things going on at once, PCs and NPCs got to use all sorts of neat abilities and tactics with a lot of ebb and flow to the combats.
As a PC I remember us taking on an entire tribe of those four armed apes in Nightfang spire at one time, that had a lot of individuals to mow through. Another was an ambush with me, another PC, and about a half-dozen paladins jumping a mixed bad guy assault squad including a mind flayer, an ogre mage, and a bunch of their minions and mounts in the Banewarrens.