SR4 in play experience, very pleased Gm and players Options

[MaxHunter]

The team has just finished a multi-session run in Amazonia.
(Some people might remember about the overprized Ares Alpha discussion)

Well, in that Amazonian run the team was bodyguarding a group of six scientists with no combat experience. They had the company of a former US. Marine who lived in the jungle and worked as the local guide.
The itinerary was quite complicated and the runners and their clients ran into awakened anacondas, corporate spies, giant leeches, magic tropical storms, poison-using indians, itchy spiders, angry nature spirits and some more.
The most climatic fight included an aztlan-sponsored guerrilla the size of a platoon (20+) plus an Azzie shaman and a Leopard Guard Sniper.

Please notice that in most combat encounters there were four runners and seven "good" NPC taking actions, plus the opposition.

This means that in the guerrilla warfare scenario there were more than 32 active characters involved!!

Even in that occasion combat went smoothly and the scene was finished in about three and a half hours. I am quite a resourceful as a GM, but even the players said that this would have been just impossibly long under the old rules.

By the way, the four runners survived (one in overflow, the rest wounded), and two scientists.

Just wanted to share.

Cheers,

Max