New: Mortis Maximus 2 (free, open-ended, email, computer, fantasy, sports)

From: lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)

Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 20:13:00 +0000

Name:		Mortis Maximus 2
Email:		madcentral@aol.com
Frequency:		7 / 10 / 14 days
Type:		Fantasy Sports Management
URL:		http://www.mortismaximus.com
Costs:		Free
Last-Update:		2001Feb14
Keywords: free, open-ended, email, computer, fantasy, sports

Description:

Mortis Maximus is a football management game based around the unruly
fantasy sport, Bloodball (which in turn is in no way based - not even for
satirical intent - on another popular boardgame with a similar-sounding
name that you have probably never played, seen or even heard of so forget
I mentioned it).

Players take on the unenviable challenge of converting an extraordinarily
unskilled collection of randomly-chosen slaves into a fan-pleasing squad
of Bloodball heroes, without getting kneecapped by loansharks or
repossessed by the sinister Slave Priests of Zarn.

At its core, Mortis Maximus is a challenging combination of sports theory
and financial management. Never fear, though - in true Madhouse fashion,
the dry technical foundations are built upon by a simple framework of
rules, some stupendously bad jokes and a mountain of statistics (not all
of which are necessarily entirely what they seem).

Each turn, you will receive a report which details how your team fared in
this week's match. Did you win or lose? How many players are still in one
piece? Did you make enough gold from merchandising and gate takings to
cover the loan repayments? Can you afford to outfit your slammers with the
latest in grey market personal enhancements? Can you afford not to? And
most important of all, have you climbed the league ladder, or are you
languishing in last place?

Mortis Maximus 2 is the advanced sequal to its award-winning predecessor
and is (for the first time) offered entirely for free when played by
email.	Postal play costs �2.00 a turn.  We would ask, though, that only
those with genuine interest apply, since we don't want to sign up a load
of time wasters who just like the word 'free' (we have a special cellar
for you guys, full of spiders and undead.)

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