With the new CW's pieces, you really need some kind of house rule of CE's. Otherwise you end up with what me and my friend had the last time we played a 1000pt. battle (but it was very amusing watching the swathes of death...)
My squad:
Total:1000, 105 Activations. General Grievous, DAC (57) Gha Nachkt (12) BDO (8) Homing Spider Droidx4 (124) Geonosian Overseerx3 (48) Dwarf Spider Droidx6 (84) Super Battle Droidx10 (90) Heavy Super Battle Droidx10 (130) Battle Droidx50 (150) Bodyguard Droidx4 (76) MagnaGuard-100x4 (60) Crab Droidx6 (122) Battle Droid Sniperx4 (36) Uggie (3)
So the entire squad is +8/+4 and can quad attack...that's is some insanity right there. His squad...
Total:1000, 57 Activations General Windu (72) General Obi-Wan Kenobi (55) Yoda (55) General Aayla Secura (50) Anakin,CoN (49) Shaak Ti, JM (49) Captain Rex (32) Commander Gree (19) Commander Cody (19) Mas Ameda (8) Supreme Chancellor Palpatine (37) Queen Amidala (17) RCTS (28) Arc Trooperx5 (80) Arc Trooper Sniperx5 (70) Sev (15) Boss (17) Fixer (15) Scorch (15) Clone Trooperx12 (84) Galactic Marinex10 (110) Star Corps Trooperx8 (104)
And much the same with his squad, thanks to Windu and Aayla they can all quad attack, and So long as they're within six of two other people (ooh, hard...) then they're +8/+4...
Both squads were fairly balanced, as even though the seps outnumbered to the republic nearly 2 to one, they Republic had several beastly jedi, not to mention some Republic Commando's with re-rollable shields, and the fact that their 4 attacks could hit 4 people rather than two...
We played on the BIG Kashyykk Map, and it was great to see most of the board taken up. Anyways, I won the first init, and killed a couple clone troopers (darn lack of accurate shot...) and from there all hell broke loose. It only took us 4 hours, as there was so many attacks and so much damage flying around...the poor jedi didn't have a chance with that much firepower, so they cowered until some of the droid lines had been broken down. In the end, the turning point came when one of my homing spiders got a LoS to Windu at the end of the round and put down 60dmg. I then won init and finished him off, halving his firepower. I managed to keep Grievous hidden, and Queen Amidala, Anakin and Shaak all died trying to sneak across the map to get him and then BDO (hidden in the closed off bar bit). Anakin did manage to get up my stairs on the left, but then GG got the door open, and from a covered positition managed to use his gun to hit the last 30 on poor Anakin.
I won, and was left with GG (80hp) BDO, one Geonosian Overseer, 2 Crab Droids, 5 battle droids and a 10hp dwarf spider, when the crab droids finally cornered the 50hp General Obi-Wan, the last survivor of his army. I won init, charged Obi and needing 2's to hit him, got them both, killing the general, and winning the field for Grievous.
So much fun, and utter, utter carnage. In this situation, the mass battle worked, as the sheer abuse of those CE's was ok, as both could do it in equal measure, but if you did, say, Republic vs Empire mass battle, you would have to put a restraint on somehow, because it's pretty tough to answer to a load of +8/GM/Quad Attacking clones...
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