Hi Mr. McNeil, Thanks for your reply. I could like to clarify my understanding of what you wrote, which was "The always active mode means that if you fight a battle against the AI the other play [player?] controls their troops. It means no long waits while one player fights lots of battles vs t...

Hi Pip - I was quite surprised when you wrote: Spartan works basically by sending save games back and forth, they are small enough that it works fine. I don't remember how exactly I implemented it, but I would guess that you can choose a savegame on your HD and it will just send it to the other play...

Hi Pip,

Sorry, I forgot to ask this clarification. Does your expression above mean, "transmitting the game file back and forth," as is common in play by email games?

Bob

Hi Pip,

Thank you for your (clearly well-informed) reply. I was encouraged by it. Unfortunately, the demo is single-player only (or so it says), so I can't test it to try. Perhaps someone else here can add something more before I invest in the game.

Bob R in New Mexico, USA

Hi Everyone, I have been impressed with the Spartan Demo (single player) and so would like to get the full game, as would our our son in Arizona, so the two of us could play via Gamespy, "live," using the turn-based system in Spartan. My two questions for you, please: 1. If we play online ...