New: Empires (commercial, open-ended, www, computer, historical, wargame, economic, abstract)

From: lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)

Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 01:14:31 +0000

Name:		Empires
Costs:		averages 1.80 GB pounds/turn
URL:		http://www.pbmsports.com/empires.htm
Frequency:		one per two weeks
Email:		danny@pbmsports.com
Type:		Historical Wargame
Last-Update:		2001Nov13
Keywords: commercial, open-ended, www, computer, historical, wargame,
economic, abstract

Description:

Empires is a game of diplomacy, conflict and conquest. It�s designed to
have the maximum of action with the minimum of fuss. There are currently
three different versions with different maps and slightly different rules.

Medieval Empires plays on a map of Europe which is divided up into thirty
small countries (with up to thirty players at the start � there will soon
be many fewer).

European Empires plays on the same map, but has a few large countries
(roughly those at the start of the Napoleonic Wars). We intend to develop
this later into a Napoleonic Empires variant with a more complex battle
routine to simulate Napoleonic battles and campaigns.

World Empires plays on a three-panel world map that includes almost any
country of the twentieth century and adds air forces to the rules used in
Medieval & European Empires, making it a little more challenging than the
other two.

More variants are likely to follow. Medieval Empires is particularly well
suited to �private� games (gather a group of players of your own, and
we�ll run the game for you) since it plays quite well with fewer than the
full number of players (the routines for non-player countries are quite
effective in this game, and the �dummy� players can be awkward opponents,
especially at the start).

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