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<blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 1409428" data-attributes="member: 8835">ah, now we're getting somewhere.&nbsp; For a moment I was wondering if MerrickB got his 1400+ posts by replying with one-liners...<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />On unit sizes, perhaps they used a dumb formula, which could be corrected.&nbsp; In theory, my formula would be:5'x5' square per man = 25' sq. feet.&nbsp; A 10 man unit would need 250 sq. feetA 50 man unit would need 1250 sq. feet.&nbsp; Take those numbers and square root them to get a box shape, then round up to the nearest increment of 5'10 men = 15.81 = 20'x20' box50 men&nbsp; = 35.35 = 40'x40' boxThat's probably a bit more to proper size.I would propably try to make sure unit groups are limited to about 10 units per side as a maximum.&nbsp; Having 30-40 units running around seems a bit too much.To keep track of units, I'd suggest borrowing from MageKnight and putting action tokens on each piece that has already been used.&nbsp; At the end of the round, remove them all.&nbsp; You might in fact limit a player to only moving half their army at a time (or some other favorite algorithm).&nbsp; Copy BattleTech, and only allow each side to move few units, alternating between sides.&nbsp; Or just roll init for all the units.How much different is these other systems from what I outlined?Janx</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Janx, post: 1409428, member: 8835"] ah, now we're getting somewhere. For a moment I was wondering if MerrickB got his 1400+ posts by replying with one-liners...:) On unit sizes, perhaps they used a dumb formula, which could be corrected. In theory, my formula would be: 5'x5' square per man = 25' sq. feet. A 10 man unit would need 250 sq. feet A 50 man unit would need 1250 sq. feet. Take those numbers and square root them to get a box shape, then round up to the nearest increment of 5' 10 men = 15.81 = 20'x20' box 50 men = 35.35 = 40'x40' box That's probably a bit more to proper size. I would propably try to make sure unit groups are limited to about 10 units per side as a maximum. Having 30-40 units running around seems a bit too much. To keep track of units, I'd suggest borrowing from MageKnight and putting action tokens on each piece that has already been used. At the end of the round, remove them all. You might in fact limit a player to only moving half their army at a time (or some other favorite algorithm). Copy BattleTech, and only allow each side to move few units, alternating between sides. Or just roll init for all the units. How much different is these other systems from what I outlined? Janx [/QUOTE]

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