This thread is for discussion about whatever House Rules you use when you are playing Star Wars miniatures. It seems that most people play with some kind of House Rules, some of which are rather creative.


As of right now, I myself don't play with any House Rules, but I might make one to neutralize GOWK's SSM by making it for non-melee attacks.

I don't really like playing this way but my brother despises v-set characters so he won't let me play those against him, apparently because they aren't really "collectible."

To make games faster, I take 1/3 of the map and go at it. I get 1-2 games in about 1-2hrs. It's so much fun to just play the games special abilities and have a battle. It truly feels like a long live action sequence. Of course this works really well when you take the "gambit" and choose to "override" the boring stalemate mechanics. (I'm trying to be as "diplomatic" as possible, but I'm sure I’ll get many comments "activated").

Cheers

If you have access or want to make 3-d Terrain

Steps or ladders - characters with flight can ignore them to get atop buildings.

LOS is from the characters head.
Cover - You have to be able to have LOS to the entire targets base

Oh, and I almost forgot.

We also do what we call the, "Triangle Rule."

Rather than clear cut teams and complete FFA, we play where the person to the immediate left and right of us is considered an ally, and everyone else is an enemy. So the person to my left is my ally, but the person to HIS left is my enemy. Think of a pentagram, and take a single point on the pentagram. The two immediate points adjacent to the chosen point are allies, and the ones that remain are enemies.

It really is quite fun. It makes for a bit of a hectic game, honestly. When it boils down to 3 players, it becomes a FFA

it may sound odd but my old League had a list of House Rules. Most of them consisted of affinities that should have been given to WOTC pieces and some gained a few restrictions. The weirdest one was for initiative For group battles. We commonly played around 5-6 people on 3 conjoining maps. SO the rule was you can pick the yourself to go first or the person directly in after you. i Dont know that it worked the best but it was there so that people did try to intentionally turn the tide of other smaller skirmishes going on, or at least not as much. We had so many matches originally where people would pick a person that they realized if they could defeat some of their opponents squad they could defeat both people at that point. Also it stopped the cause of the rule and that was picking the arbitrary person in front of you that has nothing to do with the match you are currently working in to go so that you still get to go firsrt basically and it screws over the other opponent.

One of our house rules (one that we forget to use a lot...lol).

A force user can spend a force point to open a closed door (one that's not overridden shut). Just needs to be able to see the door. At the end of the force users turn, the door closes (unless they moved to a position that will keep the door open).

Right now we are going back to basics. We only play with rebel storm and clone strike pieces. The first thing we did before we even started was dump aurra sing in exchange for zuckuss. So far it's a lot of fun, rebels and empire need a bit of help to equal the strength of clone strike JEDI and Sith (never thought I would say that) so far it's fun.

Are goal is to create a balance before and after we add in each set using substitutions from later sets. Eventually when the game catches up to her power level, aurra will be added back in.