I recently watched some videos on this game and I absolutely love the art style and gameplay. However my normal group is 3 to 4 people, I’m wondering if anyone has any good alternate rules to accommodate additional players. I’ve done some googling and there are some ideas out there, but nothing really solid as far as I can tell.
I thought of playing a regular side-by-side coop game with 2 people per 3 base team, as it had been a long day of individual competitive games.
The way you describe gives much more scope for weighing up the attack/defend or protect-your-partner decisions, I’ll give it a try.
Let me know how it goes! First turn water allocations for this method are 1, 2, 2, 3, and then 3 for all proceeding turns.