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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 4828283" data-attributes="member: 1">Brief playtesting report:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Overall, extremely pleased.  We learned a lot about the system's strengths and weaknesses, and found the experience was clearly one of a game that's headed in the right direction.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Movement rules simulated movement how we wanted to perfectly, at a cost of being a little awkward to implement.  Clearly the design goal of "fast play/ease of use" was not being met there, but we were delighted with how the various sized ships acted and the difference between fighters, mid-ized ships and massive capital ships.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Some of the ships were not well designed - that was fine, as they were just numbers thrown onto a template to see how the system "looked".  We adjusted them a lot in play.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Squadron rules need some work.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Some areas where clarification is needed were highlighted.</li> </ul>We fought a battle between a Star Destroyer (launching TIE Fighters) and the Enterprise, three squads of X-Wings and a Klingon Bird of Prey.  Each felt and acted exactly how it should.  The fighters raced out to meet each other as the larger ships closed more slowly; fighter squadrons streaked along the side of the Star Destroyer blasting at it, taking casualties from its point defences, and dueled in lovely parabolic arcs!  One time I misjudged an X-Wing's speed, and it was unable to pull up in time to avoid colliding with an asteroid. The winner was the Imperials.</blockquote>

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