incandenza: that sounds fun. it would be nice to play in sessions sometime to speed up progress, but i like the slowness of the email game as well. Do you want to play a coop game WJ? Mimo would you be interested in any type of game? Thanks for responding, K
I'll start a new thread and send you a turn this afternoon. (I've got a 2 hour conference call scheduled for this afternoon which is screaming for some AoW multi-tasking.) The thread is fun to chat through since it's entertaining to read for other newbies and/or lurkers with too much time on their hands.
Re: Speed of play - I'm with you on that. There are evenings when I'm up for knocking out five or six turns and there are weeks where I'm lucky to get a turn in. My friend and I found that this games lends itself very well to the bouncing between these two extremes. I usually try and knock out a turn before 7 AM on the East Coast and another late in the evening after the kids go to bed. (Turns sometimes get snuck in at work on my laptop when the game is at an exciting juncture too.)
I used to play HoMM with a friend in hotseat mode all the time and we used to get mad at each other because my turns always took 3 minutes and his always took 20 minutes. I've been on the other side of that equation as well. The guy fighting lots of tactical battles needs a lot more time, so PBEM works very well.