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Old 01-19-2018, 03:11 PM   #13
Anthony
 
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Default Re: pirate ship crew vs. pirate ship crew with PCs

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Originally Posted by David L Pulver View Post
Thanks. I'm familiar with Savage Worlds (I mentioned it and Fate in the original post) - I agree it could possibly work, but I was wondering if there were other games out there besides Fate and SW that also handled this.
A number of games that have minion rules also have rules for resolving a large number of minions attacking with a single roll, though groups of 100 are on the large size for most of them (Deathwatch horde rules do scale that way, though you may find them silly)

While poking around, I ran into references to a reasonably simple mass combat system in Salt and Sea Dogs, which seemed worth pointing out as its rather directly related to what you're doing.
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