We have something like 80 maps. Assign the 80 maps to 80 different star systems. Pick an era with a galactic size war. People pick sides... everybody is either Republic or Seps, for example.

(Everyone will need an opponent to face off against, but it wouldn't have to be the same 2 people for every skirmish.)

Each week, 3 maps are up for grabs. For each map, whichever faction gets the most wins on that map during the week wins that star system. Most star system at the end wins the war.

Well there are any number of crime boss' that could be struggling for control.

Or Emps pitting vader off against 'other' prospective apprentices.
Or specific area skirmishes that tie together.

The Bounty Hunter wars?
Not sure if I'm on the right track here,may need more details.

How big is the map?
Would the massive Moss Eisley map work?

I was thinking simpler..... Example. ( And I wouldn't like this one, but its the easiest example)

The Clone Wars..... Pick Seps or Republic. pick a planet that was a centerpoint for that war. And for 6 months we battle for that planet.

Section the planet off into areas. (this is where I get hazy because I don't know enough about 1 particular planet to break it off into enough areas to fight for however long the battle lasts) But then each week, or every other week, we posts our results within our groups to see who did what.

The tricky part would be designing the characters to lead the armies. They definitely wouldn't need to be legal for 200 point play, but something that made them just really epic for each army. Set rules on squad building and then let the battle begin!

his obviously wouldn't be able to be started tomorrow or anything, but what do the designers think of trying something like this out? Could be loads of fun....

I thought mine was pretty simple. Perhaps 80 is too many maps, but really the format I suggested would just be specifying the map and the factions. After that, it would just be regular skirmishes - may the best side win.

Scenarios and special characters (or just picking existing characters) sounds fun, though.

I've done something similar in the past. We had a grand campaign using a Star Wars Risk map. Each system had a corresponding SWM map. Each player would have a faction represent them and systems were initially divied up Risk-style. Players would take then turns choosing a system to invade; If they won, they took the system.

We also had rules where if a player lost a unique unit, they'd be unable to use that mini (or any other version of the persona) for so many turns. They could also choose to retreat the uniques for a smaller penalty instead.

It worked out pretty well, but the campaign was eventually ruined by one of the players as his whining and overall attitude caused no one to really want to play after a while.

My minis community came up with an idea a few years back where we did a fight to control the universe. You started with just your basic faction on your home planet plus two resource worlds/satellites. From there you struck out to control the universe. Each week you could challenge a faction or strike out into the unknown regions and tried to fight for control of new resource worlds that would give you new bonuses and access to new characters for squad building. The sad thing is we spent to long "perfecting the rules that we never got to play

I think I still have the rules somewhere if anyone is interested

Yea it was a bit annoying after all that planning not being able to play, but some of the rules would have made the game fun, for instance If you sent a unique out into the unknown regions to find resources and where attacked on your home front you could not use that unique in battle seeing how they are not actually there. It was ment to keep the game interesting so you are not playing the same squad all the time. I would love to actually play it some time it would work great over vassal. All you need is one team per faction. there are a few you could split as well for instance with the republic you could easily have two there and divide up the massive amounts of uniques.

I for one love reading FlyingArrows games, especially his recent boba vs han scenarios. He would be awesome at telling us what to do

Neat idea. You wouldn't need to list everything, though. I'd think common=unlimited, uncommon=elite, and Heroes=rare would be a good rule of thumb. Then only list the exceptions to that rule... probably a short list, at least relative to listing every piece a faction has.

Thanks for the vote of confidence. :) I'm certainly willing to brainstorm.

I was thinking about the 80 map thing... nobody (I think ) wants to play 80 skirmishes in the same war, but that's not necessary. Instead of having many different people play the same battle and then saying "4 seps won on that map and 7 republic won, so republic gets that planet", we'd just have one skirmish run on that map and that's it.

To make things work, people should sign up in pairs - someone they know they can play against (either in person or on Vassal). Also, when signing up, players would claim a certain number of maps. I'd suggest 6 maps (just a guess, though). AndyHatton and I have found that our 4-skirmish campaigns are about the right length: long enough to get involved in the plot but not too long. I'd say 6 skirmishes per player for this one because it should feel a bit more epic, being a galactic war and everything.

Eventually between 20 and 30 players sign up, 10-15 per side. Every legal map (heck maybe even the illegal ones... why not battle for Hoth?) will have been assigned to one pair of players.

Each side will have a Supreme Commander - some player who will decide who gets which pieces. Kind of like what Sithborg said. Generic troopers would be available to everyone. Specialized troops would only be available to some players. Uniques available to only one player at a time. I'd interpret any defeat of a unique as permanent defeat of that VERSION of the character. So if they have only one representation it means they're dead. If they have multiple versions, it was just an injury and some allies came by later to put them in a bacta tank... but that version is no longer available to anyone on that side.

Example...
Player A is Supreme Commander for the Rebels, and he has Players B-K on his side.
Player 1 is Supreme Commander for the Imperials, and he has Players 2-10 on his side.

For the first round, everyone is playing on 1 of the maps they chose. Player A gives Luke to Player B, Leia to Player C, and Han and Chewie to Player D. No one else can use those uniques this round. Everyone can use generic Rebel Troopers, but Player A decides to give the commandos to Players D, E, and F. (He gets to choose 3 players to use commandos, for example).

Assume Luke Skywalker, Hero of Yavin was defeated in round 1. HOY cannot be used for the rest of the war, but other versions of Luke could be. For the second round, Player A assings Luke to Player J this time. He plays with Luke Skywalker, Rebel Commando.

There are 6 rounds - one battle on each of the 6 maps chosen during initial map selection. Most total battles won wins the war. Perhaps some maps unlock certain abilities. (Whoever wins the Hoth battle can use Wampas, or whatever.) Count on players playing one battle every week or two. The war would then last 6-12 weeks.

Being a Supreme Commander could potentially be pretty time consuming.