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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Truename" data-source="post: 5763473" data-attributes="member: 78255">Very well! We played yesterday. It took a lot longer than expected--I had set aside 4-6 hours for the two encounters, and we ended up taking 6 hours for the first encounter alone. (We've since decided to skip the second encounter.)The players were engaged and interested the whole way through, despite being such a long battle. The mix of troops was good. The obstacles were balanced well--the caltrops were damaging, but not ridiculously so, and the fraises+earthen ramparts cost the enemies a turn without stopping them cold. The catapult added a nice sense of danger without being too devastating.The archers' friendly-fire penalty worked out really well in practice--it had the simulation aspect I wanted (it's dangerous to fire into melee) and made the players think about tactics.One thing that didn't work was making the chaplains minions; they were far too vulnerable and difficult to protect that way. I bumped them up to 45 hit points.The other thing that didn't work so well was having the infantry squares throw off minions; it was too fiddly and they just got in the way. I liked the flavor it evoked but it didn't work in practice. We stopped doing that after the first couple of rounds.I took pictures and hope to have time to put up a detailed description of the battle in the main 4e forum. I'll link to it from this thread when I do.</blockquote>