FFG:SW Minion Group Wound Handling, How do you fellas do it?

A laborious task as a FFG:GM using traditional journal/character tokens for minions, is that if one mob gets shot, the rest of the group records that damage. Now FFG does say it's a wound pool for the minion group, say 4 minions in the group each with 6 wound. 24 total. I play each minion of the group as a hybrid rule, it makes little sense for the guy they aren't shooting at to take damage or even die. I don't create 4 individual characters for those mobs, I use an unassigned strain threshold bar counting up to track damage on minions and or rivals. Bar1 Wound, Bar2 Unassigned (strain for players and nemesis) , Bar3 Soak, Is what I have to assign to every minion token I place, it's a slight shortcut. But, what do you fellows do? Aside RIP Spock.

I'm not familiar with the system at hand, so I'll only touch on the group health pool aspect. Create a character journal for the mob type, set the HP to be the health for the whole group (in your example, 4*6=24, so 24 HP) and follow the instructions here: <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/Linking_Tokens_to_Journal" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/Linking_Tokens_to_Journal</a>... however when you reach step #5 do not unlink the health attribute . By leaving it linked, damage to one mob is reflected on all mobs.

"I play each minion of the group as a hybrid rule, it makes little sense for the guy they aren't shooting at to take damage or even die." In FFG:SW, main tracking stats are wounds (hp), strain (physical endurance), and armor (additional difficulty dice), in my intro games I use soak in the third bar. Easy reference for a GM. Soak (damage reduction), in my opinion, should be tracked by players, as in a properly formal game they should compute it and subtract damage they receive. Minion groups in FFG are multiple mobs who as a whole are most effective, having one initiative, and they all follow the one maneuver and one action rule. They maneuver and action as a whole. But, as their numbers diminish, they lose their combat effectiveness.