New: World at War (free, closed-ended, email, computer, historical, wargame, gui, economic)

From: donotreply@pbm.com (PBM List Autoposter)

Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 08:13:02 +0000

Name:		World at War
Costs:		Free
EEmail:		emg.pbm zat shaw.ca
Frequency:		one per week
URL:		http://members.shaw.ca/emgturn/ww/ww.htm
Type:		Wargame (WWII style)
Last-Update:		2007Feb10
Keywords: free, closed-ended, email, computer, historical, wargame, gui,
economic

Description:

We are currently accepting sign ups for the next regular game of World at
War. This will be the 44th game of World at War. Which should tell you
that the game is pretty good.

World at War assumes that a global war is about to break out on the planet
(similar to WWII on Earth) and each player is in charge of one of the
countries. This is a strategic/operational level game, with the map
consisting of irregular shaped areas, turns being 3 months, land units
being mostly divisions, air units are squadrons and naval units are groups
of ships. Some of the items in the game include:

different types of resources (food, fuel, hmetal, lmetal, credits and
production) required to build units.
air units have to fly out of airbases to do a mission and return to base
after the mission
10 types of land units (HQ Arm Mech Inf Par Mar Stc AT Art AA)
6 type of air units (Ftr LB MB HB ATrn)
6 type of naval units (CFlt HFlt LFlt Sub NATr NTrn)
technology gains can be made in each type of unit
units use up supply to do a mission
limited intelligence
world market to buy and sell resources
diplomacy with neutral areas
unlimited number of commands and unlimited number of units in an area

The above is the official overview of the game, but it doesn't come close
to describing the endless possibilities the game has to offer.

If you think World at war is of interest to you. Please vist our web site
and have a look around. A true wargamer will not regret doing so.

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