Ghost Archipelago with small warbands?

[Darksider]

Hey i saw this on Joe's Blog
http://therenaissancetroll.blogspot.com/2018/10/thanks-hate.html

They played a game of ghost archipelago with smaller warbands.

How would you set up such a game? Only allow 1 specialist or give everyone the full money value and they can buy as much as they want, but you only can have 6 warband members?

Any ideas? =)

[Bloggard]

haven't really thought of issues in this context tbh: all my games have had less than the full compliment of crew numbers, and we've just taken that as it comes.

[Darksider]

Thanks for the answer =).

You never had issues with that? As one could take all 4 specialists and the other none (not that this will ever happen in our group^^).

[Bloggard]

only played 2 player games, and we've ensured crews are balanced.

not being much help I guess - apologies.

[LiamFrostfang]

  we did it just the specialists...twas fun.

[Darksider]

we did it just the specialists...twas fun.

Only four specialists? How many players did play? Any special scenarios or did you play rnd game?

[joe5mc]

I think the game works great with smaller warbands. We played Heritor, Warden, 1 specialist, 2 standard crew. In generally, I'd probably allow 2 specialists, as they are bit more fun.  The only real issues is in how you handle treasure. We basically counted a treasure as 'secure' as soon as it was moved to a designated area - that way the figure didn't have to exit the table.

[Darksider]

Thanks and nice idea =). I will try that in our next game.