I feel confident that once RTR Platinum has been finalised will use that as a basis for a PBM. I, like DDW, would never go back to anything running under version 1.2 of Vanilla – I personally found the Load/Save bug intolerable.

My current PBM plans are:

1. Maintain focus and momentum in the current Carthage 1.5 PBM.

2. Play Test to establish an “entry level” PBM (BI or Rome 1.5, undecided)

3. Plan ahead (looking a month or so) to a RTR Platinum PBM using similar (though simplified) rules to this Senate one.

I’m not going to overstretch the player base by committing to the my RTR PBM until this RTR PBM is well underway – looking August/September perhaps.

I want to keep my “entry level” PBM quite small, stipulating it is for beginners to PBM’s – hence it will have some specific rules but nothing too complex (perhaps using a more familiar faction), whilst keeping the core game at a VH/Medium setting to challenge the players who are good at the vanilla game but looking for a new challenge. Again though, the start of this will not be for a good few weeks.