Masamune,

I hope you give Sam Wars a try. We don't have any of the problems you mentioned in your post. The current group playing SW is very small, so we only play once a week on Sundays at 19:00 GMT, and usually play for 2 or 3 hours. We would have more players, but some cannot get MTW/VI to run well on their new computers. Last week I got in 4 battles in 2 hours, and the previous week 5 battles in 2.5 hours. If we have an odd number of players, one watches the others play.