VDP E-Mail Game

[kirkh]

I'd like to inquire to see who may be interested in playing a VDP game via e-mail. If anyone played in the old webgames John Noddings ran, these would be very similar. We'd still use VDP, but instead of all having to get together at a particular time to play real-time, we trade our moves via e-mail. Whoever is up would open VASSAL, make his move, save the file, and then send it to whoever is next. These are not quick games by any means as they can take many months to complete, but they are easier to fit into ones schedule. You just check your e-mail to see if you're up, do what needs to be done in a reasonable amount of time, and pass the files along.

One of the necessities to get a game done this way may be that we'll need a moderator. In the old John Noddings games he'd roll for initiative, attacks, etc. The players would just move their planes and announce attacks. We might need to do that in order to keep the game moving along.

If you might be interested in giving it a try, drop me an e-mail. Then when I've received all the reply's I think I'm gonna get (at least enough to make it an official game or we won't do it), I'll get things started. If I get four replies I'll act as moderator for a game between the four players. If I get only three we'll need to arrange it so I can fly one of the planes.

It's an experiment to see if this will work, so please let me know if you'd be interested. My hope is that if we get this working well enough we may be able to have a bunch of e-mail games going at the same time.

[gblemings]

i would be willing to try this out...

add me to your list..

[e-mail]

Gary Blemings

garyb

[AP]

I'm in! [e-mail]

Although I must say... the last email game I played - it took four months, and by the last turn of the game I had only taken 3 points of damage and had successfully tailed my foe for three straight turns. The last turn I tailed again, hoping to smite my enemy & allowed a 300ft side shot on myself. When the results came back...my target was fine, and I had received 4 engine hits from the side 1/1 crit exploded.

I was not a happy camper.

[kirkh]

Be aware I don't know how this will work yet, so I think the process may need some tweaking as it goes. If I remember rightly, with the old webgames John Noddings did all the setting up and just assigned planes to everyone. That would be my plan as well. I'd roll up a game, put the counters on the board, roll for initiatives, and then send the gamefile to whoever is next on the list. Assuming I don't play and can be the moderator, I'd do all the dice rolling and would simply report to each person what he sees. The players would move their planes, choose tailing cards, and decide who to fire at. Everything else would be rolled by the moderator. For every e-mail I send out to the next person in line I'd send it to everyone in the game so we all know where the game is at any point in time. Hopefully we get at least two more people willing to try this out.

[Orion]

I am in too Kirk. Please check your private messages here for my email address.

[kevan]

I'll try a game too.

[kirkh]

Cool. This gives us five so I'll be the moderator. I'll wait a little while longer to see if anyone else is interested before launching things.

[Rex]

Sign me up


-Rex

[kirkh]

Ok, you five are signed up so we'll get things rolling tonight. If anyone else is interested, we may be able to start up another game shortly.

[bergovoy]

add me to your next one

[kirkh]

We're still in the process of getting started so I should be able to add you to this game. Provide me with your contact info and we should be good to go.

[jdestubbs]

Please put me on the list of willing victims ;D for the next email VDP game.

you can reach me at [e-mail]

Thanks!

Jason

[hdrestr]

Jason,

there is a game forming in the e-game 7 posting! Jine up thar!