Name of Game: WinMac Fantasy

Scenario Parameters:

  1. Scenario to Be Used: Fantasy (on the CDROM)
  2. Army Set to Be Used: Fantasy
  3. Terrain Set to Be Used: Grassland
  4. City Set to Be Used: Fantasy
  5. Number of Cities: 58
  6. Fraction of Water: As per scenario
  7. Fraction of Forest: As per scenario
  8. Fraction of Hills: As per scenario
  9. Do Cities Build Allies? One city does in the whole scenario. Let's see who can hold it!

Choosing Sides:

How Will Sides Be Assigned?
Submit Preferences. I will try to assign sides to ensure game balance. (IE if dk blue, lt blue, green and yellow and white are all human, yellow is really in the soup, but white will spread like crazy. Of course a diplomatic solution can fix that imbalance, too!)
How Will Sides Be Named?
Submit your own country name or scenario default
Number of Computer Players?
Enough to fill remaining slots, unless one player's starting position is significantly weaker than the others as a result of AI presence.
Computer Player Settings:
Warlord, Enhanced

Game Parameters:

  1. Neutral Cities: Active
  2. Quests: On
  3. View Enemies: Off
  4. Hidden Map: Off
  5. Razing Cities: Always
  6. Diplomacy: To be determined
  7. View Production: On (people who have played the scenario won't have a big advantage).
  8. Intense Combat: Off
  9. Military Advisor: On
  10. Quick Start: Off
  11. Random Turns: Off

Play-By-Email Options:

File Transfer Method:
The Warlords II Remailer
Max File Turnaround Time:
3 days, weekends count as one day; two three day extensions per player.
Player Substitutes Allowed During Vacations/Absences?
Yes

Directions for Interested Players:

Send me your email address, platform and some biographical info, along with your time zone (hr GMT) for the Remailer, and instructions for your side if you should miss the time limit. I personally favor "civil disorder" where nothing moves and new heros are hired, instead of AI .

Additional Comments, Thoughts, Suggestions:

If you really don't like the scenario, I will consider Selentia, Hero's Isle and Mythtec. The final side color assignments must be approved by everyone.

The three day turnaround is a maximum. I really hope it is closer to one or two days to keep the game moving. If someone wants a vacation and everyone else does not mind we can suspend the game (personally I won't mind if the game has been moving well up to that point). The three day extensions are used upon request.

No reverting please. We are playing a traditional game.

Read the communication section on the PBEM site. We will be using the "anything goes" rules and the "bracket method."

Mac platform players have it rough in diplomacy ratings since none of their declarations stick. (See Cross-Platfrom Play ) I am inclined to not have diplomacy unless everyone else feels strongly about it or if there are no computer (AI) players since they are the only ones who really react to the diplomacty ratings.

I have played PBEM cross-platform before, and once we work out the initial encoding/decoding bugs it should to go quite smoothly.