Doubts about how PBM works.

Gary Grigsby’s War in the East: The German-Soviet War 1941-1945 is a turn-based World War II strategy game stretching across the entire Eastern Front. Gamers can engage in an epic campaign, including division-sized battles with realistic and historical terrain, weather, orders of battle, logistics and combat results.

The critically and fan-acclaimed Eastern Front mega-game Gary Grigsby’s War in the East just got bigger and better with Gary Grigsby’s War in the East: Don to the Danube! This expansion to the award-winning War in the East comes with a wide array of later war scenarios ranging from short but intense 6 turn bouts like the Battle for Kharkov (1942) to immense 37-turn engagements taking place across multiple nations like Drama on the Danube (Summer 1944 – Spring 1945).

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Doubts about how PBM works.

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Hi guys, I have very rare situation and I am looking for some help. I just got WITE from GoG some days ago. The main thing is that I live in the countryside of one latinoamerican country where is no WiFI just cellphone internet (social networks are free, but I have a limit on the internet I can use on my computer). Other stuff is that I am bussy nearly the hole day so i just use the game for SP for now (tryng to learn the mechanics the better I can). I have been reading about how MP works, and how PBEM works, and i am wondering ¿is possible that I could play my turn off line and send the save game or something like that to the opoponent, or just turn on the internet for sending the game when my turn is over? ¿Both parts have to be online and connected the whole time that the MP game is being played? I mean, I want to know if its possible that for example I play my turn during the day (being offline) using the time I have, and when I am done I just send the save game by email to other player or something like that.

Other additional question i have is: ¿WITE worth really just for playing in singleplayer?
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HvH you can play by e-mail instead of using the server. I have played several games that way, it works fine and you can review your previous moves which is real benefit. You just have to trust that both players will not be replaying their moves to get better results.

Game is good value vs AI in my opinion. Good scenarios to start with would be the 'Road to ...' ones and then progress to the Campaign, playing as Axis and increasing the difficulty level as you learn the game.
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@jonhgalt Saludos y bienvenido a nuestro grupo!

Each turn save is usually just over 2MB in size. So you can just go online to send that 2+MB file, and get one similar file back from your opponent each turn. Typically you would send this file as an attachment to an email say? You do not need to spend anymore time to play online this way. So in terms of data use in PBEM games it is very efficient.
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