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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MerricB" data-source="post: 6180933" data-attributes="member: 3586">Party composition and powers will make a huge difference here. Consider if most of them are with minions - the wizard using an Area of Effect spell will take them down quickly. Single standard monsters? The strikers take them down quickly. So, it's somewhat hard to give exact answers. This type of play can also be rather swingy depending on initiative and whether the party get surrounded.My general advice here is to be prepared to add or remove monsters or encounters depending on how the players are actually going. You have the perfect chance here to tailor everything to your player's capabilities on the fly - the format of this allows it, as you don't have to reveal what all the encounters are at the start. It's not like a single fight where you can see every monster at the beginning.I recently ran a big encounter for 22nd level characters where the enemies came in waves (so not dissimilar to the effect you're trying for). I think the total number of monsters was 2 elites, 4 standard and 54 minions. (Here's a <a href="http://rpggeek.com/thread/962826/forgotten-temple-of-tharizdun-4e-style" target="_blank">report</a>). That really pushed the players, so it might give you an idea of where to start.Cheers!</blockquote>