Next game of Empires of the Middle Sea taking signups

From: DougEMG <doug.greening@shaw.ca>

Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 05:53:02 +0000

Signups are currently being taken for the game 6 of Empires of the
Middle Sea, a free email PBM game at EMG Games at http://members.shaw.ca/emg.pbm/emg.htm

Alexander has been dead for a generation, his Empire dispersed and his
deeds have merged with myth. New powers have arisen from the vacuum.
Near the pillars of Hercules Carthage has emerged as a regional super-
power and the fledgling Rome has finally crushed the rebellious
Samnites and holds the Italian core in its iron fist. To the east, in
Alexander's old empire the sons of the last of the successor dynasties
squabble over fabulously rich lands. Ptolemy II rules Egypt and spars
with Antiochus I of the eastern Empire of  Seleucia. Antigonus II has
seized Thrace from the ill fated son of Lysimmachus and aims to be
crowned king of Macedon. Pyrrhus I of Epirus is the current king of
Macedon in name only, and has temporarily turned his eye to the Greek
colonies in Italy. The world is in flux from the Indus to the
Atlantic, it is a time of change, new empires are rising to challenge
the established order and for the first time for generations the
barbarians are forging south, forced from their northern borderlands
and intent on richer lands to pillage and settle. It is 280 BC and the
age of the Empires of the Middle Sea.