New: Wars of the Roses (commercial, open-ended, email, snail, mixed, historical, wargame, rpg)

From: donotreply@pbm.com (PBM List Autoposter)

Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:13:01 +0000

Name:		Wars of the Roses
Costs:		8 GB pounds/turn
Frequency:		one per two weeks
Email:		agema zat hotmail.co.uk
URL:		http://www.agema.org.uk
Type:		historical wargame, power game
Last-Update:		2008Jun25
Keywords: commercial, open-ended, email, snail, mixed, historical, wargame, rpg

Description:

The Wars of the Roses is a game set in the XV century British Isles
following England's defeat in the Hundreds Year War and starts just as
Prince Edward is born. Players take the roles of leading English nobles,
bishops and burghers, but can if they wish alternatively take part as
Irish chieftains 'beyond the pale' (that is, outside of English control),
or as Scottish lords under King James II.

The game features politics, warfare, mercenaries, intrigue, trade,
diplomacy, and is thoroughly researched. The rulebook is really a manual
covering everything from retinues, chivalry, building ships and arming
troops and investing in castles to corporations, the Church, laws of
attainder, corruption of the blood, the college of arms, laws of affinity,
the court of abeyance, parliament, taxes, harvest and livestock, heresy,
the chevance system, going into exile, and jousting tourneys! In other
words it is a reference book for use during the game, but play centres on
player enjoying the game and atmosphere rather than having to become rule
lawyers!

This is the most developed game Agema has yet released in nineteen years
of game design and boasts a detailed full colour map. An in-period
newspaper is sent out with every game turn.

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