I already replied to your PM a couple of hours ago. It’s fine, you’re in the game. You did note, that we’re not playing a “live” game over VASSAL, but “play-by-forum”, which will likely take several months, right? I was a little confused by your PM…
Zilfalon was just joking, because we met yesterday to play another face to face game, which has nothing to do with this one here.
All right, a player update:
Confirmed:
Zilfalon
TunaDude
Waiting for confirmation:
rbelikov
AbsoluteZero
jpsuchecki
Aruze
Additions to the above rules:
IMPORTANT: All player interaction has to happen using this forum. PM’s among the players are NOT allowed.
In case of interrupting a player’s actions through Action cards or other abilities, there is a 24h time limit in place.
All battles are done by me, the GM, ideally using Conditional orders, sent to me by the players by PM before the battle, indicating their possible actions (that more detailed, the better): i.e.
“I will take casualties in the following order: …” ,
“I will use by special abilities in the following way: …”
“I will play Action card XY, if …”
" I will retreat/withdraw …"
The DEFAULT battle in case a player does not sent a conditional order will be: no retreats, no Action cards played, no abilties used, casualty order:
Space Battle: one hit on units with Sustain Damage, then Fighters, Destroyers, Cruisers, Carriers, Dreadnaughts, Flagships. Mercenaries
Invasion Combat: one hit on Mechanized Units, Shock Troops, Ground Forces, Mercenaries
Escaping leaders return to the most valuable planet in the Home System
Aruze, please also note, that there is a second parallel game about to start in the other thread with a symmetric galaxy. Please feel free to choose between either game you wish to play or join in both.
Unfortunately I will decline because I can’t afford the commitment of two simultaneous games. (Also, as I mentioned in the original thread, I have reservations about the asymmetric map.) You guys have fun!
Hello, unfortunately i cannot play a game over several months, i would have hoped for a normal game over vassal but i just do not have the capacity to play that long term game.
sorry, and hope someboddy will login on vassal from time to time.
i have no idea how the idea of playing Twilight imperium 3 over a month is Possible
but i realy want to play even if it will take a month
however it will be Extremely Painful
So if you teach me the needed “paly-by-play” for a Month long game, i would like to join the game even though my prior comment was that i would not, if you will still have me.
You simply do create a log file, while you play. That logs EVERY Move you make on the board, every counter you placer somehwere, everywhere you click. Everyone can doublecheck if everything was legal, when loading the log file, and then continues his turn while creating a new log file, which will be given to the next player again. and so on.
I recomment rereading the other Thread (I know, 6 pages might be painful) it will probably answer all your questions regarding player interaction, combat, and the GM’s role and so on.
if you recieve a log file, you load it, go through it step by step with “screen down” button, at the end it will ask you if you wanna create a new file, you click yes, do your turn, click on “end action”, save the log file ( I suppose) and load it up into the Forum
please reply or PM me soon.