New: Empire Deluxe (free-moderation, open-ended, email, www, mixed, historical, german, wargame)

From: lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)

Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 07:13:00 +0000

Name:		Empire Deluxe
Costs:		free
URL:		http://www.empire-deluxe.de
Frequency:		from one per day to one per week.
Email:		empire@kramer.ws
Type:		Wargame
Last-Update:		2002May24
Keywords: free-moderation, open-ended, email, www, mixed, historical,
german, wargame

Description:

Empire Deluxe is a turn-based strategic global-domination wargame with
stylized units where up to 6 players strive for conquest of a planet that
can be randomly generated or created using a map/scenario editor included
in the program. Basic game play involves each player starting with one
city and no knowledge of global terrain. Each city produces one type
(player choice) of land (i.e., infantry, armor), sea (i.e., destroyer,
submarine, cruiser, battleship, carrier, troop transport), or air unit
(i.e., fighter, bomber). These units are used to explore the map, conquer
other cities (neutral or enemy) and destroy enemy units. Game ends when
there is only one player left due to elimination or resignation of
opponents' .

Play by email is accomplished by saving the binary file to local hard disk
and then transferring the file (usually by email attachment) to the player
whose turn is next. Since the binary file is standardized, opponents can
be using any combination of Macintosh, DOS, and Windows versions of the
games.

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