One of my favorite single-player skirmish missions is the Hostile Skirmish. I usually set it up to Early Era, where I set my fleet to 3 Cruisers, and set the random parameters for the other five AIs to High BPV, 3 ships ranging from Frigate to Heavy Cruiser. Set it up for a 3v3 and I wind up with a 9 v 9 "fleet" battle.
How hard would it be to expand on the existing Random Space Battle Multiplayer script to make it work 9 v 9 or better (12 v 12 or 15 v 15)?
Also making it so that the selected fleets are random, but balanced. Currently the Random Space Battle script spawns everyone in similar size ships. For Example if a DN is chosen in a Fed vs Klingon 3v3 the fed side is all F-DNL, and the Klingon side is all K-C5Ks. The only time a variety comes into play is when the HDW or the DW class is selected.