Quote Originally Posted by econ21
Well, we have 8 people voting "yes" so far, which is pretty healthy. (I agree it is a shame the poll is not public, as OOC I'd like to help interested players who have not been Chancellor get elected - with my mighty influence of two ) Most conventional PBMs struggle to find many players in the late game.

Really?

Quote Originally Posted by econ21
One interesting question is which would be more work - doing a late game stint in the Scottish PBM or as Chancellor in KotR? I am not sure what the answer is, but it would be different kind of work. In the Scottish PBM, you'd have to fight a lot of battles and face a more daunting write-up (I still have not written mine from a mid-game stint). In KotR, your battles would be more political and managerial with more bite sized episodes of tactical gaming and story writing. The nice thing is that both kinds of games are going on, so players can choose. (The Scottish game is re-cycling the old playlist so new entrants might be able to join and directly pick up a reign.)

I'm not sure how it compares to being a Chancelor, but it's certainly hard work playing a regular pbm in the end game. In my first reign in the game, it took me all of 1-2 hours to do 20 turns, fighting every battle and taking down notes . My first turn in this last reign took longer than that. Not only did I have to look over 30 provinces or so, but I faced multiple full stack defensive siege battles (one where the clock ran out!). I wrote a simple, character based narrative for my first writeup, but I dread doing so with this one(which of the dozen generals I've used to I focus on?). I'll probably end up doing more of an overview writeup.

Things calmed down a bit, but hours of playing later, I'm still only half done with my reign. I think being Chancelor would have the distinct advantage of moving more slowly. Turns seems to take at best several days in KOTR, so I'd have more time to assimulate all the information. Dukes make a lot of the decisions, and I wouldn't have to worry as much about where to move armies and build queues. I wouldn't be fighting most of the battles, either.