AH's France 1940 PBeM

From: "Sean Emerson" <semerson@transport.com>

Date: Wed, 03 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Avalon Hill's Classic strategy game from 1972, France 1940, is now a module
for the WarGame Processor PBeM engine!

Do you play anything remotely similar to the Avalon Hill Classic type
WarGames?  If so, you'll be interested in checking out the new PBeM engine
for Wargamers and passing the word to your opponents.

You can find out more and download a full-featured version of it from my
website:

http://www.transport.com/~semerson/wgp.html

WGP is a shareware program for PCs that will greatly simplify your PBeM
life. It holds your favorite wargame safely in your computer, free from all
the dangers of the house, and far more convenient than gameboards scattered
everywhere for months on end.  With WGP, just load the specific game module
and position, and you're ready for a move with the gameboard before you on
the screen.  It's easy to learn the controls, and everything you need to do
a complete move is available: full countersets, built-in die roller,
separate combat mode, even comment boxes to communicate with your opponent.

When you're done with your move, there are two choices.  If your opponent
has WGP, just save the file and send it off attached to an e-mail.  He
receives it, loads it in, and uses the replay button to see your complete
move, action by action, complete with any comments or die rolls.  Easy!
WGP helps when your opponent doesn't have WGP, too.  It still serves to
keep track of the game, and there are several ways to save your move as a
simple text file, which can be edited and sent to your opponent.

Included with WGP is an Editor program, which allows you to create a module
for any game you desire.  So if the game you play isn't yet available, get
to work and do everyone a favor!  Some time and maybe artistic ability are
needed, but the possibilities are endless.  You can get
most of the existing WGP modules at http://pbem.brainiac.com/wgp/ (This
page is under heavy construction, wear a hard hat).  Already available are
modules for:

1776
Afrika Korps
Advanced Third Reich
Barbarossa, Minsk'41(EPOC Games) (Japanese Only)
Battle of the Bulge (EPOC Games) (Japanese Only)
Bitter Woods (AH game of the Battle of the Bulge)
Blue and Grey I (2 of the TSR Quad - Cemetary Hill and Antietam)
Breakout: Normandy
DAK in the desert (Japanese Only)
D-Day (AH Classic)
Divine Right (TSR fantasy game)
East Front (Columbia Games)
Empire of the Rising Sun
France, 1940<Picture>
Global War (A3R combined with EoRS) (GW2000 counters included).
Global War (SPI)
The Guns of August
Japanese Task Force (Japanese Only)
Napoleon at Marengo (SPI)
NATO: the Next War in Europe
Patton's 3rd Army - the Lorraine Campaign (SPI)
Punic Wars (SPI, Strategy & Tactics Magazine #53)
Red Star, White Eagle
Revolt in the East (SPI)
Rise and Decline of the Imperial Japan (Japanese Only)
Rivets (Metagaming Concepts microgame)
The Russian Campaign
The Russo-Japanese War (Japanese Only)
Sorcerer (SPI, Decision Games)
Third Reich, 4th edition
Victory in the Pacific
Wagram (SPI)
War and Peace
War At Sea

Modules under development:

Alexander
Anzio
Battle of the Bulge (1981 edition)
Empires in Arms
The Longest Day
Red Star, White Eagle

W95/98/NT required.