POG on Vassal

[Saladin]

So, a year or two ago I spent some time playing Paths of Glory via the Vassal app but due to reasons I had to quit playing.

I'm getting hungry again for some WW1 action, anyone up for a game?

[Habbaku]

Presumably via e-mail or something, and not live?

Why not use Cyberboard and ACTS (http://acts.warhorsesim.com/pog.asp)?

[ulmont]

Presumably via e-mail or something, and not live?

Why not use Cyberboard and ACTS (http://acts.warhorsesim.com/pog.asp)?

Yeah, if you're not doing it live, CB and ACTS is the easier play.  If you go that route, I'm happy to play.

[Saladin]

Cool. I'll look it up.
So you have to use both Cyberboard and ACTS?

[Habbaku]

Yes, Cyberboard maintains the map while ACTS handles all the cards and dice-rolls. Using them in tandem is very, very common across a lot of different games.

[Berkut]

[Saladin]

Hmm.

I prefer to just have one place to play the game. I'll look into it. But I'm playable on Vassal because you can PBEM with it too. 

Are you game Berkut?

[Berkut]

I am game. But what we are trying to say is that it is actually easier to PBEM with Cyberboard than Vassal.

At least, in our opinion.

[Tamas]

Hmm.

I prefer to just have one place to play the game. I'll look into it. But I'm playable on Vassal because you can PBEM with it too. 

Are you game Berkut?

It's basically correspondence chess, ergo much faster.

e.g I have my hand in ACTS, I want to play a 2 OPS card, I want to entrench in Koblenz and I want to activate the German 1st and 2 armies and move them to Brussels. I just do a move in my own cyberboard copy, and when I play the card used for the activation in ACTS, in the comments I write something like:

1/2 M GE1, GE2 Liege ->Brussels
2/2 Entrench Koblenz


This way you don't need to send a file around, everyone can follow the steps on their own copy, and because of the format (at least that's how I remember the format) if your file (or your opponent) got out of synch you'll notice (for example if you don't have GE1 and 2 at Liege), and you can check the log to clear it up. But that almost never happens.

Then in this example turn, after posting that, I'd make a die roll in ACTS, which would be e-mailed to my opponent. With the comment of the roll, I'd write "entrenching at Koblenz"

It would not be an issue with you and Berkut of course, but normally when playing a stranger this would also have the advantage of your opponent not being able to keep rolling in Cyberboard until they get the result they want.

[Saladin]

@Tamas
I get it now, I thought that I would need to send both my Cyberboard file and deal with ACTS.

[Berkut]

If you have an ACTS login, let me know what it is and I would be happy to setup a game.

[Saladin]

@Berkut

Sorry for going AWOL, lots of stuff in IRL. But as soon as I get some breathing space for gaming I'll let you know!