Well that was an interesting weekend. We had two tables going, and used demo fleets of 3pt raid, each containing 2 raid and 2 skirmish ships. I used fleets this size because it made for quick games, but still left a player with a decent number of ships to play with. Alot of people were taking part in tournaments, and this size game meant they could grab a game in between their other games. So it worked out quite nicely.
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In case you are wondering. I didn't have enough centurions for both tables, so the dargans I collected in 1e stood in for them. I even cut and pasted the dargans pic over the centurion's in the ship referance sheets I made. By keeping it to set fleets people could just get stuck in, and not spend ages trying to figure out a fleet from the book. (It also means I don't have that many ships to go over looking for chips :wink: )
There were some quite memorable games. Like when one bloke ran his centauri through an asteroid field to try and get the drop on the vree, only to get antimattered to death on the other side.
Or the 5pt raid game I had later in the second day were the EA third age fleet kind of managed to get scattered all over the table, before much shooting even took place.
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Not sure how his omega ended up facing the wrong way. but it was a good game, and it kind of made up for the hiding he gave me in day one.
All in all it went kind of well. We couldn't get the numbers for a tournament on day two as we had planned. But we did a decent number of demo games, and I think we made a few converts. A number of people played who had ships at home from B5 Wars, or fleet action, but didn't know about ACTA.
One of the Victory at Sea guy's (BigShowNZ) Italian fleet had a close encounter.[/img]