In my experience, the bulk of a game's strength, as it pertains to the community, is held by those who play in multiplayer. While this observation might not hold as much truth with SPWAW as it does in other genres, I have the feeling that in order to learn and excel in this game multiplay becomes almost a necessity.
No AI (short of a true artificial consciousness) can provide the level of challenge, tension, jubilee in victory and angst in defeat that multiplay can accomplish so effortlessly.
Hopefully, as new players become accustomed to SP, they will come here to seek out that next level of challenge and enjoyment. I count myself amoung them, as I am playing my first PBEM game at this moment (which will most definately not be my last).
Let us hope that this forum will facilitate such contact and provide both those who are veterans to PBEM play and those thinking about deploying into their first battle against a thinking opponant with unparalleled hours of ecstatic nail biting.
