New: Hoplite Encounter (commercial, closed-ended, email, computer, historical, wargame, gui)

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

Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 08:13:04 +0000

Name:		Hoplite Encounter
Costs:		Free trial. Cost tba (say, GBP20 per game - up 60 turns)
Email:		hopliteencounter zat f2s.com
Frequency:		One per week
URL:		http://www.hopliteencounter.com
Type:		Wargame set in Classical Greece
Last-Update:		2008Jan01
Keywords: commercial, closed-ended, email, computer, historical, wargame, gui

Description:

Hoplite Encounter is a computer-moderated, turn-based strategic wargame
for about a dozen players. It represents, with no pretence to precision,
the wars between City States in Classical Greece. The players control the
main Imperial Powers which can conquer other countries, including each
other, and hold them as colonies within their Empires. Each Empire
operates armies (of hoplites) and fleets (of triremes and merchantmen)
within the financial limits of its Treasury.

Operation is in three parts - turn processing at HQ (Mount Olympus), a
display and input procedure written in Java to run on the player's PC and
a link between the two. At present the link is by e-mail.

Players need to feel comfortable with basic PC operation and e-mails (with
zipped attachments) but all software and instruction is supplied.

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