How about a EB PBEM game?

**Rilder** · 08-15-2006, 07:58

How about we start up a EB PBEM game... maybe a barbarian faction cause of the mods name-sake

**econ21** · 08-15-2006, 09:59

I'd definitely be interested in an EB PBM game, but I think it would be best to wait for 0.8. I get too many CTDs at the moment.

**GiantMonkeyMan** · 08-15-2006, 11:16

what i would love to do is a koinon hellion (sp?) pbem game where each person takes one of the 'houses' as in one person is sparta, one athens, and another rhodes and controls those provinces + the ones that they take... it would also be simulate the friction between the people when one 'house' goes to war with a faction and the others didn't want to...

**econ21** · 08-15-2006, 11:30

Interesting idea - we've been trying a sort of decentralised PBM in the Throne Room with the "Will of the Senate" game. Each general fights their own battles, although the economy and army movement etc are determined by the Consul (with directions from the Senate). I've been wondering what would be a suitable PBM with a more "provincial" feel and Greece is the natural.

Working out the logistics of how to do this is non-trivial (passing a savegame around each city player each turn would slow things to a crawl), but not insurmountable.

**The Spartan (Returns)** · 08-15-2006, 20:19

Originally Posted by econ21

I'd definitely be interested in an EB PBM game, but I think it would be best to wait for 0.8. I get too many CTDs at the moment.

seconded. plus RTW goes faster in 1.5. (i know the reason)

**Tuuvi** · 08-16-2006, 03:29

Please excuse my noob question, but what is a PBEM?

**econ21** · 08-16-2006, 10:36

Originally Posted by Lignator

Please excuse my noob question, but what is a PBEM?

Here's a brief explanation:

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showp...91&postcount=2

Have a look at the Throne Room for some examples. Here's a fairly recent one (WRE BI) we finished:

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=60372

**Darkarbiter** · 08-16-2006, 11:28

Nice but what faction are we playing? I suggest ptlemaioi or baktria are a good choice.

**Wardo** · 08-15-2006, 13:19

I'm in. Whatever faction, whatever you decide.

**Justiciar** · 08-15-2006, 17:11

I've never played a PBEM before, so it might be worth having a go. Like econ21 said though, wait fo 0.8.

**Justiciar** · 08-28-2006, 01:02

Looks like the Saka are winning so far. So how are we going to do it? Play by reign? Controling individual generals? Taking n turns each and then switching?

**econ21** · 08-28-2006, 01:29

Originally Posted by Justiciar

Looks like the Saka are winning so far. So how are we going to do it? Play by reign? Controling individual generals? Taking n turns each and then switching?

I'm inclined to wait for 0.8 before fixing anything in stone. One possibility is to have several different PBMs, with different factions, on-going at the same time. For example, running a Saka game and a Greek game alongside would be fine. (I have become intrigued by GiantMonkeyMan's idea of trying to decentralise the game to the level of individual Greek city states.) But you'd probably want at least 6 committed people before starting.

My instinct would be to combine playing n turns then switching with delegating battles to the player controlling individual generals. This is what we are doing in the Will of the Senate PBM and it is working well - it is a way of keeping a group of people actively involved. Alternatively, simply playing 20 turns and then switch is a reliable method and allows for good story-telling. Playing a full reign is surely out of the question given the 4TPY mod (it would be exhausting).

My plan is to wait for 0.8. Set up the most popular PBM, confirm the players' availability and then agree the logistics among them. If a simultaneous second PBM then still seems possible, I'd do the same with that.