Vassals & Valour: Redux - Rules Finalization and Sign-ups

[Zim]

You fight defensive battles during the AI's turn, but not during those of other players.

How does this work? do you fight your defensive battles at the start of your turn or something? Could we use this in a regular multiplayer hotseat?

Keep us posted on how you go with setting up a hotseat in LTC - I will have a crack later as well and if I can't get it working I'll search the LTC forums to see if anybody else has posted this problem. We might even be able to PM Lusted and ask him if he can help us do it, as a final straw.

[_Tristan_]

As a side note, can we delay on the start of this until the first days of September, with holidays and all ?

Not that I don't want to grab the reins but I won't have Internet access (or at best patchy) and won't have access to the game until then...

(Hides to avoid the thrown garbage)

[Ferret]

Yeah I go off to the Virgin Festival in Chelmsford from Friday to Monday, so will have no internet access for those days...

[phonicsmonkey]

hey I found this which should allow us to start LTC in hotseat mode

I have to go to bed now so I haven't tested it, but someone give it a try or I might be able to get to it tomorrow or something

[Password]

Hi there.

I've been a lurker on these forums for a while and been interested in joining a hotseat for a TW game, however, not having played much of the series recently my skills are somewhat lacking and I decided to hold out joining one. When I saw this thread it seemed like a TW skill deficiency would obviously not be the deciding factor in the enjoyment of the game so I feel it would be ideally suited to someone like me.

I would like to sign up for this RPG, though whether I will be accepted is another matter. I do not have any experience in online RPGs, though I have played a few hotseats a few years ago and this is fairly similar.

If I am allowed to join I will reinstall M2TW, Kingdoms and LTC Gold. I am slightly confused however, as I've not seen the game save provided if there are any characters left and if so if a new one can be created. If the answer is no to both of them I am happy enough to wait until a chance occurs to join.

[Cecil XIX]

Welcome to the Guild, Password! It's an honor that your first post on the forum would be to sign up for Vassals & Valour. The game is always accepting new players, although due to the unique nature of the starting PvP conflict I'll have to think about what I can give you. At the very least, you'll be welcome to participate in the Diet discussion, which I'll start later today, as well as send other players PMs and write coop stories with them. And you'll be first in line to receive a new character when it becomes available. I'll create the official starting save today, and I'll look and see if I can squeeze you in without upsetting the balance of the Civil War. Welcome to Vassals & Valour!

[Cecil XIX]

All right, slight change of plans. Right now I'm working on introductory writeups for the players. I've also given Password an option on how to participate, and am waiting for his response. Since we've had two requests for a delay, I'll wait until this Tuesday and then I'll post the official starting save, send out the introductory PMs, and begin the first Diet session, which will last for four days instead of three. That should give you all time to hash strategies, deceptions, and whatnot. Once that's done I'll kindly ask for our good moderators to close this thread.

Now, about the writeups. I wrote my first one, and I was a bit more exhaustive about possible strategies and counter-strategies available. While I don't think my meagre advice is enough to give anyone any real help, the possible is there I wouldn't want to give everyone's enemies advice without giving them the chance to object. What do you say?