[board] Pax Brittanica

[garbon]

Thank god you didn't put my name on there.

Who are you again?

[Ed Anger]

Thank god you didn't put my name on there.

Who are you again?

Lettow

[Barrister]

Me? No way.

Okay so is this game dead before it even started?

No it wasn't you, but I left out the culprit so as to protect the guilty and to make you look bad.

[grumbler]

I've said this before, but I think you're underestimating the reliability of several people on here.  My short-list of reliable players (IE, people that would not bail inexplicably) :

Habbaku (I count!)
Beeb
Martinus
Berkut
Tamas
Delirium
grumbler
Katmai
CountdeMoney (Just kidding)
garbon
Kleves
Ulmont
Ehrie
Viking

That's a fairly large list of players available, assuming the interest is there.

That is., alas, far short of what is needed.  I could probably get ten or more players by advertising amongst those who have expressed interest in the last ten years, but they wouldn't be Languishites and the delta would be critical and not in the good sense.

[grumbler]

Oh sounds cool and very intense!

It was very cool and very intense.  Germany won every game but one, alas.  Germany could win by avoiding a general war, and also by only allowing a general war she could win.

The problem with this persistent problem is that it was probably true.  Basing games on history can be an issue for balance.

[grumbler]

...which makes Grumbler Japan!

In case it has been forgotten, I am totally onboard with this.  Even if there is no capital G in grumbler. 

[Barrister]

TaT would work wonderfully with the Languish community, but people here have serious commitment issues.

I've said this before, but I think you're underestimating the reliability of several people on here.  My short-list of reliable players (IE, people that would not bail inexplicably) :

Habbaku (I count!)
Beeb
Martinus
Berkut
Tamas
Delirium
grumbler
Katmai
CountdeMoney (Just kidding)
garbon
Kleves
Ulmont
Ehrie
Viking

That's a fairly large list of players available, assuming the interest is there.

I've bailed out of two or three games in a rather weak manner. :sadblush:

My problem is fairly simple, if stupid:  these days I find it hard to sit down and really grasp the rules in short order.  And any time someone wants to start a PBEM game they want to start yesterday.  I then get embarassed and hide.

Who am I kidding - there's no "if" about that being stupid.

Also depending on the system and websites involved I may be blocked from work access.

Thunder at Twilight sounds absolutely fascinating.  If you actually gathered up 26 players I would be game.  That being said someone needs to hold my hand through learning the system - and I mean hold me hand like a three year old crossing the street.

Once I have the rules down pat I should be good.  The fact that it sounds more roleplayish also sounds cool.

[garbon]

:sadblush:

I do wish the smiley code was changed back to this.

[Barrister]

the delta would be critical and not in the good sense.

I am unfamiliar with this term in any sense.

[grumbler]

I am unfamiliar with this term in any sense.

Delta means 'change" in scientific-ese.  Sorry.

[Barrister]

I am unfamiliar with this term in any sense.

Delta means 'change" in scientific-ese.  Sorry.

I'm familiar with that (5 years on my B.Sc. finally pays off!), but "the change would be critical, and not in the good sense" - I still can't quite figure that out.  I thought maybe the whole thing meant something.

But it doesn't make any real difference, and I'm not trying to give you a hard time.

[ulmont]

It was more like in the general direction of all the players

Still in.

[Hansmeister]

What is TaT?

Thunder at Twilight.  It was a colonial/Victorian PBEM game I and some others ran back in the 1998 through 2000 (three different iterations) that was purely web/PBEM based.  Excel spreadsheets for budgets, and that sort of thing.

Nominally 26 players, with 3 players (Conservative, Liberal, and Nationalist) per major country, with goals that were both competitive and cooperative, two players (Coneservative and nationalist) for the mid-powers, and single players for the minor powers.

Heavily driven towards goal-achievement, as opposed to national power achievement, and lots of rndom events to spice things up.  Newspapers would be published, budgets passed, colonies established, wars fought, the whole shebang.  It was suposed to be role-playing, and was.

I was amazed to find that Tamas had actually played in it, given the odds that a member of such a small group as the TaT players (and he was one of the key ones) would ever find themselves part of such a small community as this one.

Heh, reminds me of when I played Gladius et Pilum when I lived in Germany in the late '80s via PBM.

[Habbaku]

Doing a brief read-over of the TaT rules; I am very amused that the election of socialists really does turn into a domino effect.   

[Delirium]

I can't see myself mustering the patience for this game.