We played a 3 on 3 Saturday with each player having 1 ship each. 3 of the players have never played and 2 players have only played twice. We had one side use two 5th rate and one 4th rate and same for the other side. It took us about 3 hours to play including rules explanation. I used standard rules with partial advanced rules thrown in.

Overall it went pretty good with two of the players really enjoying it, one player liking it, one player was ok with it and one player not liking it (my honey). I think I will try it again next Saturday to see how much they retained.