hurly wrote:
I assume no One sits at home waiting for the other to finish his turn.
So One of you does his turn, sends a message and then the opponent gets his try.
How long does it take to finish such an 11 turn battle and do you fight your Flip Flop of Sides parallel
Like braccada Starts German Turn 1, then goose Poland Turn 1 and his German Turn 1 at the Same go, so braccada continues with German Turn 2 and Poland Turn 1 on the Same sequence and so on.
Or ist this a First Game Braccada is Germany, goose is Poland til its done and then a rematch after that with sides flipped ?
The only aspect I'm not completely solid on is the number of Turns as a criteria for the overall win.
A surprising Change of Weather at the wrong time can cost you a Turn or More and decide the final result.
But These are just my naive and innocent thoughts about this complete new Panzer Corps experience
And I now Know its Kind of hell to Type in English with German autocorrect so dont be annoyed with several typos it forced on me
One person sets up the game and the other joins because they know the password. You do not need a password to set up a game and if you set up a game without a password anyone on multiplayer can accept your challenge when they click on accept challenge tab in multiplayer. But once it is set up then the person who set it up automatically receives an email from Slitherine letting you know that your challenge was accepted and it goes back and forth with messages as you play your rounds. It can drive your spouse nuts getting your computer clogged with email notices so you can set up here on the forum somehow to shut off notices, but I have never done it so not entirely sure how it is done.
You ask about flip flop, it is called a paired game when you set it up, and what that means is you have two games set up.
Poland for example: 1 game I was the Polish and on the other I was the German. You could play all the way through one side before playing the other side, but we typically play one than the other to get a comparison of how each other is doing.
Going forward we will be playing just one side of the map, but on Poland we wanted to demonstrate the difference in play styles. Yes I am aggressive.
The games initial message gives the detail of what the criteria is for a win, but typically it is the same on most scenarios.
In most of the Balanced maps is to end the final turn with the most primary objectives.
In most of the historical maps it is to have all of the main objectives if you are the side that is the aggressor, if you are the defender it is usually to retain control of at least one main objective.
This is not a hard and fast rule, but it is the general gist of the initial set up.
The best way to learn is to try. So I recommend picking your favorite map with your favorite side and create an open game.
I can remember when I first bought the game. I started playing the single player and was immediately saddened to see the vanilla campaign only had one Polish battle before moving onto Norway, so I most certainly got the entire Grand Campaign and was thrilled to see all of the Polish scenarios and the whole set up. I have been in hog heaven since on single player, but right before Christmas I decided to click on multiplayer to explore what that was all about.
I found open games on accept a challenge and was stunned to find you can play people.
I got my butt whooped pretty hard my first few battles as my first 10 losses came quickly. (I am at 99 losses right now.) 98 being this Polish loss and number 99 being my Tournament loss.
Then I found an excellent French tutor by the name of Hollowlolo. He taught me the ropes and I try to use every loss as a learning opportunity.
Blessings on your endeavors.
So I hope that is not too confusing.
If you do not like that, just turn of weather and set the game to chess mode. That is fine as well.