RTW and PBMs

[afrit]

HI everyone,
seems this board has gone quiet since last month's interruption. And now with RTW coming, I wonder what will happen to all the PBM's out there.

I for one am excited about RTW's potential for better PBM's. More V&V's, family trees, commanders visible individually on the battlefield. Lots of options for role playing.

What are your thoughts on how RTW will affect PBMs?

Afrit

[Tricky Lady]

Yes, RTW promises to add loads of new perspectives from which to write PBM stories...

:starts dreaming of a Carthagian PBM:

[lonewolf371]

I hope we'll start off with some good historical mod PBM's, I won't be able to stand flaming pigs, screaming women, and accurate artillery.

[The_Emperor]

If PBEM's do work with RTW I will probably start the first as soon as I get the game. I'm thinking a Scipii or Julii Campaign would be good to start off with.

[lonewolf371]

From what I've seen from the demo I think we might still have MTW PBMs, RTW is a TW game but it just doesn't have the same feel to me, it's so much more WC3 and C&C-like, people still played MTW when awesome graphical games such as WC3 games were around, so I don't think good graphics will make us automatically reject MTW.

[The_Emperor]

I don't either... But I can see a Rome TW PBEM being popular.

But given turns now happen in seasons as well as years, reigns may last longer. SO it remains to be seen if RTW PBEMs are viable.

[afrit]

Yeah, with the 2 turns/year "reigns" would get long. We'll have to see. I guess we will all play a couple of campaigns in single player before getting on with a PBM. Then we will get an idea on how long faction leaders live, whether they can "retire" before death etc..

It would be very interesting, though, to play a PBM for a faction that none of us has played before. Or better yet one that has not been "digested" on the org before. RTW gives us a new chance to play a PBM with an outcome very much in doubt. Maybe we should all "save" a faction to play as a PBM first (I would pick Brutii).


Afrit