It would be upto CA to tailor the campaigns also to make them quicker, ie a lack of ai factions would be great (6 players anyway who needs ai?) In ntw the campaigns are just copy pasted from single player would be nice in shogun 2 if they were specifically tailored for MPC too.Ĭurrently in NTW with 5 minute turns a campaign turn takes 10 minutes - 5 mins for each player, with the system i outline above (which gives the players an EXTRA minute in each turn) the shogun2 6 player campaign takes 11 minutes, 5 player - 10 minutes 4 player - 9 minutes 3 player - 8 minutes 2 player - 7 minutes. But the battles are great fun and noone cares how long they take.Įach player in effect gets 6 minutes to take their turn within that 11 minute turn 5 minutes to build queue set taxes etc and 1 minute to move troops you could also extend the movement phase of each player to 1 min 30 and this would give 14 minute turns 4 per hour but also consider that some turns players will not take their full alloted time and may finish their movement phase early is some cases a player will not have to move troops at all that turn or they will simply move with a previous turns move queue when u move the unit over a distance that will take longer than 1 turn.Īlso i expect shogun 2 to have reinforcement rules like mtw2 which would also speed the game up as all armies would be deployed at the battle start. Thats just as fast as the 2 player campaign at the moment excluding the battles when a battle takes place it would pause the countdown in that players movement phase untill the battle is completed. 5 turns per hour for a 6 player campaign.

So say a 5 minute turn and 6 players, every player builds stuff and does whatever else except moving armies in that 5 minutes theres then a settable movement phase at the end of the turn like say 1 min each of the 6 players gets 1 minute to move their armies in turn so 5+6 minutes = 11 minutes per turn for a 6player campaign CANNOT grumble at that. after all thats the only reason you need players to take turns seperate is the movement of armies/agents.

All players take their turn at the same time but have a movement only phase where each player moves their armies in turn.

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