"Blood and Plunder multiplayer game LSHG Austin" Topic

First game of blood and plunder in Austin TX.
After trying the rules at HCon I decided to run a big game to introduce players from my group to the system.
We did a large game, 6 players each with 100 pts lists fighting on two sides ( french and brits ) in the Control the Field scenario while two players with 150 pts in sloops did the naval version of control the field.
Land game had random length, naval game fixed 6 turns.. The winner of the naval game was then able to land at the dock to support the land battle.. the loser of the naval game could enter the land battle later and from a far away shore.
In the end it was a french victory despite the British captain winning the naval engagement and showing up at the docks behind the french rear.
full report here

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How did you handle unit activations with multi players? And did the two boards activate separately? I'm planning my own multiplayer game, so I'm curious.

The table with 6 players.. simple.. they each had their 100 player force.. pulled their turn cards.. and then they all bid their cards as in the normal two player game.. Then you just activated by card initiative…

The boards turns where not aligned at all.. I'let them run separately and as soon as the naval game was over the winner would enter on the next turn start of the land game and the naval loser on the following one…

As it turned out the naval winner ( british ) arrived at the start of turn 5, so the naval game did 6 turns in the time the land game did 4 …

I did ask the land players to each remove one joker from each of their decks to limit the number of event per side to three vs the normal two in a two player game.

All seemed to work seamless…

Francisco – great write up!! should read LSHM (typo) – Lone Star Historical Miniatures – for those outside of Texas.

Are you planning to come down to SA this weekend for the MUSTER – Carl is running a Blood & Plunder game. We need to merge the groups and get a B&P group going – also some games at MillenniumCon!!!

looking good! CharliG

oops… typo :) .. thanks

I need to travel this weekend …. too bad..

Hope to try a mixed game like this at Historicon.

Thanks for the info! I figured it may work pretty seamlessly like that. Glad to see someone tested it before I got to it!

I am looking forward to trying it out!

Let us know how it goes !!! and any new scenario ideas you come up with..

We also just did a multi-player game (all land) in Atlanta at Giga-bytes gaming cafe. Great game. Each player used their own card deck and we activated as per Suit/#. Worked fine as activations were quick so no one sat around.

Recommended.

TomT