Spec Me an PBEM bitches....

Anhamgrimmar · Post by **Anhamgrimmar** » February 17th, 2007, 23:57

as most of you know i'm off for a holiday to sunnier climes in the not too distant, and i'm definatly not getting chance to log into EvE/CS/Beef/COD/Shartak/Urban Dead/HOBOwars/etc

I should however have accsess to email. so i was wondering, do any of yas have ideas on decent play by email type of games?

Post by **Dog Pants** » February 18th, 2007, 0:53

Tricky without a client. Laser Squad Nemesis is supposed to be good, but it needs a client installing and I'm pretty sure they won't let you.

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » February 18th, 2007, 0:58

Chess? You'll need a board and I'm not playing you.

Anhamgrimmar · Post by **Anhamgrimmar** » February 18th, 2007, 1:09

Dog Pants wrote:Tricky without a client. Laser Squad Nemesis is supposed to be good, but it needs a client installing and I'm pretty sure they won't let you.

ah, but wouldnt i be able to install it on my laptop, and save it to a floppy? thus allowing me to take said floppy to the internet cabin (i'm on a yank base this time, so they should have better facilities than i'm used to this time round)

oh, and spoodie, chess? i laugh in your general direction. dont you know i'm the 1972 sussex fremasons chess champion!

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » February 18th, 2007, 1:14

Anhamgrimmar wrote:oh, and spoodie, chess? i laugh in your general direction. dont you know i'm the 1972 sussex fremasons chess champion!

I did, which is why I said I wouldn't play you.

The horsies can fire lasers, right? But only diagonally.

Post by **Grimmie** » February 18th, 2007, 1:25

Dear anham - Go download Mojopac at http://www.mojopac.com/
It allows you to make your MP3 Player / Portable hard disk / whatever into a virtual computer that plays games. You should thus be able to install any game that fits onto your device and run it from that

Post by **FatherJack** » February 18th, 2007, 2:19

Grimmie wrote:Dear anham - Go download Mojospac at http://www.mojopac.com/

Doesn't it require admin privs to run on the host computer? And won't any ports/websites required still be blocked?

Post by **Grimmie** » February 18th, 2007, 3:19

Uuhrrhm..
Dunno!

Post by **Dog Pants** » February 18th, 2007, 8:49

Anhamgrimmar wrote:
ah, but wouldnt i be able to install it on my laptop, and save it to a floppy? thus allowing me to take said floppy to the internet cabin (i'm on a yank base this time, so they should have better facilities than i'm used to this time round)

Ah, very possibly. Well then LSN might be just the man for you. I'm not sure if you can play Combat Mission PBEM too...

MrGreen · Post by **MrGreen** » February 18th, 2007, 10:44

The last PCGUK mag had a page on e-mail games, If my memory serves me right, the best was made by the guys who did the x-com series, also, CIV4 allows e-mail play.

Post by **Dog Pants** » February 18th, 2007, 11:41

MrGreen wrote:the best was made by the guys who did the x-com series

That's Laser Squad Nemesis

Post by **Joose** » February 19th, 2007, 0:28

Dog Pants wrote:
That's Laser Squad Nemesis

I am interested. I wish to play this. Now please. Now.

/wierd english sponsored by Lack of Sleep inc.

Post by **Dog Pants** » February 19th, 2007, 8:23

It's quite good. I played the trial against a computer opponent and it feels very X-Com. There isn't the depth of the X-Com series (no campaign mode, it's just sort of deathmatch I think), but it has the same turn-based feel. It's probably quite cheap now too so I'd give it a go.