Vic Davis, the friendly guy behind Armageddon Empires, has announced his new turn based strategy game, Solium Infernum.
Once again it’s a board game thing with card driven game play. The best news?
Play By E-Mail allows up to six players to compete for the Infernal Throne.
OK, not the best news. I’ve lost a lot of my fascination with PBEM especially since there are better ways to do multiplayer. But at least there is multiplayer. And six players, so it’s a real strategy game.
More information will be forthcoming once I can corner Mr. Davis for an interview.
I may not buy a single game between now and then, but I will buy this.
What if hell is unfulfilled high expectations?
PBEM seemed like something I could reasonably accomplish… networking code still scares me. But the design is meant to keep the game moving and relatively short… the timer is based on an event deck like a lot of board games. The regent draws an event card… it could be a conclave token which functions as the game’s timer… when X tokens appear then the conclave convenes and the winner is usually the Archfiend with the most prestige… usually.