>>>I'm excited by the discussions about TCS. [...] Anyone want to play
>>>over the net? -- Baransky
>>Sure! I'm willing if you are. ---Steve.
>Count me in too if you can figure out a decent way to play (why do I subject
>myself to too much extra workload?) -- Pauli
A TCS PBeM would be great! A campaign game (as in the TCS rulebook) would be
the most challenging and fun (especially incorporating the "fog of war" rules)!
Pauli and I discussed this a little bit ages ago. Combat seemed very
difficult to resolve in any simple manner (if you wanted to say true to
High Guard anyway). I think optimally for playing speed you'd need to
resolve all combat in a single PBeM turn and this is where the problem
arises. There doesn't seem to be any easy way to simplify combat so
that most combat options are available. (In very early discussions we
looked at you'd have to supply the combat orders for your fleet without
knowing what was on the other fleet was composed of! Needless to say
this was quickly discarded as an option.)
On the positive side someones done it! I did see an ad for a commercial
PBM based on TCS in Challenge. Has anyone had any experience with it??
Another game with great potential for a PBeM would be Fifth Frontier War with
players representing various fleet admirals and also using "fog of war" rules
from TCS. Combat here would be much easier to handle. I'd even to willing to
GM it myself and have often thought of converting it to PBM format. Only thing
stopping me is that I've never been able to get a copy ;-( Has anyone else
run a PBM FFW? Maybe people with the rules can suggest how easy it would be
to do.
Eric ([email removed])