About the discussed Fifth Frontier War PBM game. How about
making it a multi-player game with each player an admiral?
Each one doing his best to implement orders, gaining
intelligence, getting reports back to superiors and coping with
unforseen circumstances? The GM could assign the admirals
randomly to players. Whoever has the senior admiral on each side
will be in Commander-in-Chief and formulate policy (And don't
forget that the Darrian, Vargr and Sword World admirals will have
objectives which are distinct from those of their respective
allies). Any non-player admirals should be junior to player
admirals, and plotting factor would be dropped (since that is,
I gather, a device to simulate the information lag that is
absent from the board, but would be there with a vengeance in a
PBM game).
I'd love to participate in such a game, but would need some
information, since I don't have FFW (alas). I do have the
Megatraveller map of The Spinward Marches and a copy of the
FFW rules.
Hans Rancke
University of Copenhagen
[email removed]
PS. Richard: I've just sent you applications for joining your
PBM game to both your addresses. So now you know, in case
they don't show up.
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