Posted by: Tregonsee
« on: April 13, 2014, 09:39:13 AM »Well I'll never forget the 200 CT battle Starslayer and I fought once...I believe I fell asleep while playing it at one point. After that I told him...never again.
In one of the last battles in our München campaign my assualt fleet was around 100 ships (there was a further 100+ ship fleet waiting to exploit), and trying to keep track of what ship was where was a nightmare. It is entirely personal but I find battles in the range of 10-30 ships fun. Outside of that range and either the lack of detail to the combat system or else the book keeping crushes the fight's fun.
As I said I'm in awe of both your and Steve's ability to fight out battles involving hundreds of ships.
When doing a battle with lots of ships, we would group ships by type and make them groups of five or ten. This is assuming the designs for the ships were the same or very similar. It helped a lot.