Effect of away team size?

[phanatic62]

Originally Posted by ibol

I still won't kill officers. Sulu, scotty, geordi, worf, they never died. Might get hurt, but they'll be back next week

Tasha Yar was killed

But seriously, I actually like to hear that there are consequences for taking officers on the away team. That always makes for more interesting gameplay. At present it's actually foolhardy to not take all of your officers along when the captain must join the away team. Perhaps that's still true, but at least there are consequences for getting into a nasty fight, or more of a reason to fall back if you're getting your butt kicked.

I'm still playing on easy, but the tactic of sending all officers (even the captain) on all away missions seems to be very powerful. Again, forcing the player to have second thoughts (especially early in the game) is a good thing.