F:AT Clash of Monarchs PBEM throwdown?

Austria it is. Who wants to step up and be Prussia? I'm using ACTS in another game, just for dice rolling, so that's easily doable if you'd like.

Bulwyf wrote:

If you guys start up a Successors game let me know. I have the new version and all it's done so far is gather dust. Be nice to actually get some use out of it.

-Will

I'd be interested in Successors too.

Okay I have created a module in ACTS for Clash of Monarchs. It is under the Custom Modules. I haven't finished filling in the text of the events, but it is playable for people with the game as they can reference their own copy of the cards for the event text of the cards drawn. I'll finish typing the card text over the next few days, but as I say we can get started with the game.

The Halley's Comet event triggers adding cards to the decks and we will have to work around that, probably by advancing the game turn when that happens.

I prefer to use VASSAL for the map and moving piece with ACTS to do deck management and dice rolling. It gives a journal that everyone can reference to check their maps and keep up with the game.

Please reply with your ACTS username and country. So far we have Gary Sax as Britain and I as Austria. We need a Prussia and a France-Russia player.

Right on Ted, thanks!

For some reason I can't access the game and when I go to the custom modules list and click on it it says there are no games...

I had to do it over because I had France and Russia drawing 10 cards between them instead of 6 and 4. I'm sure that will be the last problem.

It should be there now.

Bah I think it will be hard to do this with France and Russia. They draw from their own deck if only one is belligerent. If both are belligerent then they share a single deck so they can draw eachother's events. ACTS can't handle shared and split decks in the same game.

Maybe we should use VASSAL to draw cards and just use ACTS for dice rolling.

Yeah. There's the combined russia/french hand.

I think VASSAL is fine for cards, to be honest. And tac chits and leader draws, but you could potentially also roll for that. I'm fine with the honor system for those draws but I have no problem with doing it on ACTS.

hacksword wrote:

Bulwyf wrote:

If you guys start up a Successors game let me know. I have the new version and all it's done so far is gather dust. Be nice to actually get some use out of it.

-Will

I'd be interested in Successors too.

Well, that sounds like 4. The VASSAL module doesn't handle the cards quite right, but the guy who set up the game I'm in hacked out a custom module for ACTS to handle the cards, so that's available to us.

If y'all can wait until I get into Turn 2 [one more strategy phase to go] of my current game, I'll get on with getting a game set-up.

Ok, with respect to Clash of Monarchs, we got Ted on board and me. I believe one other person said they were interested. Why don't we get a 3 player game working then, if the 3rd player is still interested? Otherwise Ted and I can fire up a 2 player game.