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<blockquote data-quote="Will Doyle" data-source="post: 6067766" data-attributes="member: 6682161">There's a lot of ideas here I really like! When zoomed in, I love that you're using swarms for enemies, and then breaking them down in size until they scatter as minions. That's pretty epic. When zoomed out, I like the use of standard 4E principles for units (action economy, forced movement, surges, etc). Couple of thoughts/questions - <ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">How long is a zoomed-out turn supposed to represent? Does it matter that you freeze time when you zoom in - or should you play X rounds close-up and then take a zoom-out turn to see how things change around you (reinforcement, flanks, etc)?</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Fortune cards sound fun, but aren't they likely do get some odd results? (e.g. &quot;man down!&quot; when no units are actually engaged). Or are they most often held in hand and played when needed?</li>
</ul>For what it's worth, I've been toying with similar ideas myself - in fact, our present campaign is slowly fighting through a player-driven war in the Nentir Vale. We use three levels of zoom - campaign, battle, and zoomed-in skirmish (some pics below of our campaign and battle setups). I provide my battle rules on my blog here: <a href="http://beholderpie.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/mass-combat-revisited.html" target="_blank">http://beholderpie.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/mass-combat-revisited.html</a>. I'll definitely be incorporating some of your ideas into our next session, and I'm looking forward to seeing where this system goes next! [ATTACH]55829[/ATTACH][ATTACH]55830[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Will Doyle, post: 6067766, member: 6682161"] There's a lot of ideas here I really like! When zoomed in, I love that you're using swarms for enemies, and then breaking them down in size until they scatter as minions. That's pretty epic. When zoomed out, I like the use of standard 4E principles for units (action economy, forced movement, surges, etc). Couple of thoughts/questions - [LIST] [*]How long is a zoomed-out turn supposed to represent? Does it matter that you freeze time when you zoom in - or should you play X rounds close-up and then take a zoom-out turn to see how things change around you (reinforcement, flanks, etc)? [*]Fortune cards sound fun, but aren't they likely do get some odd results? (e.g. "man down!" when no units are actually engaged). Or are they most often held in hand and played when needed? [/LIST] For what it's worth, I've been toying with similar ideas myself - in fact, our present campaign is slowly fighting through a player-driven war in the Nentir Vale. We use three levels of zoom - campaign, battle, and zoomed-in skirmish (some pics below of our campaign and battle setups). I provide my battle rules on my blog here: [URL]http://beholderpie.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/mass-combat-revisited.html[/URL]. I'll definitely be incorporating some of your ideas into our next session, and I'm looking forward to seeing where this system goes next! [ATTACH=CONFIG]55829._xfImport[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]55830._xfImport[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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