Play-by-mail games

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Generally players can improve their engine over time which can lead to a great sense of satisfaction when the engine runs at peak performance. Many of these games are played without a board; instead, players use a table or other large flat surface covered with 3D representations of terrain bearing its own rules. Minis may be supplied unpainted or prepainted, with many players preferring to paint their minis themselves to achieve a custom look.

One of the titans in the miniatures world is Games Workshop, whose Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer 40, lines have spawned countless board games, novels, and video games.

Games in this genre often have some form of combat or conflict resolution system in order to make acquisition more difficult for players. It is also common for territory-building games to include some level of resource generation, development, or point accumulation based on the territory held, adding a layer of strategy. One of the more famous territory-building games is Risk, though more recent games, such as Scythe, have improved upon the formula.

You guess another 5 letter word. Almost any strategy game, and any of its many variations, from tic tac toe to scrabble , can, of course, be played by mail. And above all, send the stamped-self addressed envelope. If one of your first three kingdom choices is not available in the currently starting game and you checked option F, you are allowed another chance to receive one of your first three Kingdom choices, in a game already on its second turn.

The Kingdom is guaranteed to be in excellent shape. Checking option F reduces your set-up time delay and increases the chances that you will receive set-up in your most preferred Kingdom.

You may check some, none, or all of the set-up options as you wish. In our experience with Play-By-Mail we know that it is possible for a player to inadvertently miss a turn. If you are on the Kingdom maintenance service and you miss a turn for whatever reason , we will issue commands to your Kingdom to draft new armies, actively administer the provinces, dispatch spies, etc.

It still won't help to miss a turn, but your Kingdom will not stand idle while other Kingdoms are progressing. There is no extra charge for the maintenance service, you will simply be charged the normal turn fee. We highly recommend that you elect to receive this service.

If you do not utilize the Kingdom maintenance service you will not be charged for missed turns. However, your Kingdom will be without active rule, unrest is common, no actions are undertaken, and only your unsupported provincial troops will be able to respond to enemy invasion s. While the scouting reports are filtering back, the player can build up one or two strong armies, to be sent after the juiciest targets discovered by his scouts.

This can lead to rapid growth when uncommitted forces and communities decide to join your realm. Strategy B --Combine and Conquer: This strategy calls for the player to combine all his available units into one large army. Pick your initial target such as a town or village that you don't own but would like to from those communities listed on your turn report.

Choose your targets carefully, going after the most valuable ones first; but keep in mind that you are not big enough yet to take a city.

This strategy lends itself to slow but reasonably sure growth, as all the might of the realm is packed into one knockout punch. Strategy C --Divide and Conquer: The player who uses this strategy places all his available units into two or three armies, which then head for different targets.

This strategy could lead to a much more rapid expansion than strategy B, but it has risks. Some armies might fail to capture their targets due to the strength of the realm being spread thinly. Can Friends Play? Can friends play in the same game of Forgotten Realms? Yes, if they play realms which are "friendly" to each other. A list of "friendly" realms appears at the bottom of the Turn 1 Order Sheet and at the bottom of the Realm information in the Set-up Report.

All realms in a group must be mutually "friendly". If you are not sure your group qualifies, contact us for help. Once all friends in the group have filled out their Turn 1 Order Sheets, submit all these order sheets to us in the same envelope.

Finally, these sheets should be either paper-clipped or stapled together to further insure that they get into the same game. Orders The orders listed here are the ones most useful for your Turn 1 Order Sheet. More orders will appear in the complete rules which you will receive with your first turn's output. If you want an order repeated on all subsequent turns, mark the Standing Order box in front of that particular order on the order sheet. This can be very useful for Invest, Craft, Muster, and Conscript orders.

You need only issue one Standing Muster order at a community and the community will muster a new unit each turn.

Movement is the key to getting your units from here to there Garrison units may not be ordered to move. When one of your units moves into an unoccupied hexagon, the hexagon falls under your control. If the hexagon is occupied, you must defeat the occupying army in order to gain control of the hexagon.

A movement order is canceled if the moving unit retreats from battle, dies in combat, or is given new movement orders. Each hexagon a unit moves into costs movement points MPs.

The number of movement points depends on the terrain of the hexagon, modified by the presence of roadways and waterways see the Terrain Movement Cost Chart. An additional 1 MP will be added if the hexagon entered is unowned. An additional 10 MPs will be charged if an unallied force is encountered. The base number of movement points available to a unit each turn is given in the unit's MP statistic.

If a unit is followed by other units, the base MPs of the group comes from the unit with the fewest MPs. To the base MPs, we add all bonus MPs found in the group.

This order enables you to choose the exact path for a unit, by indicating the direction in which you wish the unit to move from each new hexagon it enters. The unit can be given up to 16 directions in which to move. The directions are as follows:. Movement continues over as many turns as it takes to reach all the hexagons you specify. If you use either direction 0 or 9 as the last direction in a Move order, then the unit continues the appropriate movement until the order is canceled.

Directions 7 and 8 enable you to delay a unit's move. Follow This commands one of your units to follow another unit Garrison units may not be ordered to follow. After this order is executed, you need to give movement orders only to the lead unit.