Newbie

[pdathert]

Hi, I am eagerly awaiting this game, however I am new to this whole scene and I am wondering about PBEM, how it works in the context of this game etc etc.

In the UK, will it be available from retail outlets?

I'd like to add I've enjoyed reading all the GOLD? games that have been going on, fancy that when I've practiced on the A.I. a few times I'll be up for a few battles with some of the so called 'experts'. [:D]

[Paul Vebber]

You set a pbem game up by asigning player numbers to each of the 5 sides (or leaving them for the computer). IF you give a side the same number, that player plays all of them. You can't mix allied and axis powers though. You then play your turn, and save it - pbem games have a different file extension than regular saves, and they have teh file name = to the text nam you give teh file - so if you save as "my first pbem vs fred" you go to the "dat" folder in teh "Gary Grigsby's World at War" folder and inside that you find the "sav" folder and the file "my first pbem vs fred" will be there with the '.psv' extension.

Insert that file into an email and mail it to the next player (it always goes in the same order).

Fred then gets the emial, saves it into his dat/sav folder and starts the game. He then activates the VCR and hits play and can watch the moves that were made (with appropriate fog of war if you have that selected). You can stop and pause and rewind and go "frame by frame" (there are a couple quirks that can occur if you mess around too much with "frame by framing" the units counts in the areas can go awry. And you don't want to close the VCR without running it to the end). Those issues are being looked for the first patch - not sure if they will be resolved that quickly though - sometimes bugs like that can be like trying to find a buried golf ball...)

Anyway, Fred then plays his turn and sends the file to the next in line.

Repeat until victorious...or beaten

[ryanw]

I'm new to the scene too, pdathert, so we'll give each other a few days or so to learn a little, then I'd be happy to dive right in w/ you and see how "not" to fight a world war together

-Ryan

[Paul Vebber]

Make sure you go to school on my AARs...[8|] I've been a poster child for "What not to do..."

I've let England get cut off...i've lost Russia, now i'm about to be teh Axis all by my lonesome.

the only good news is at least POLAND won't beat me...[:'(]

Watch me be the first guy to have to take two turns to take france (there is like an 8 % chance of failing...)

in all seriousnous I've deliberately tried to give the POV of someone who opens teh box and dives right into pbem...basically what I did - I played like 6 or 8 games to warm up (there is a thread describing the "warm up plan" sequence of playing the countries - have to find it and make it a FAQ..)

Hopefully in teh AARS myself and (and the more experienced testers have doen) you can start off a lot higher on teh learning curve than me [:o]

[pdathert]

Yep ryan, as soon as I can get hold of the game and have a couple of practices I'll be happy to make some bad decisions of Stalin-esque proportion.