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Re: How to play pbem and password for the 1870 gamebox
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<http://profiles.yahoo.com/chris_shaffer> Fri Jul 10, 2009 2:00 pm (PDT)

I would say Cyberboard is more popular, though Vassal is certainly in use.
Virtually everyone uses a spreadsheet, either an Excel file that is mailed
around with the save files, or a Google Docs spreadsheet. You can find
spreadsheets here:
http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/18xx/files/Game%20Spreadsheets/
http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/18xx/links/Spreadsheets_001227891299/

Most games are arranged and played by private email. The last 10-15 games I
played were done this way. People will often set up a private mailing list,
Yahoo Group, or Google Group to run a game, but it isn't necessary.

There shouldn't be a password on the gamebox or any need for one.

There are two Yahoo Groups where you can find CyberBoard gameboxes and
Vassal modules. Very few messages are posted on these groups.
http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/18x-Vassal/
http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/18RR-PBeM/

There's also a PBEM guild for 18xx on BoardGameGeek. Not very active.
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/guild/473

Ed Holzman has run several "Learning to play 18xx" games on BoardGameGeek.
They are great tutorials for how to conduct a play by email game.
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/101877
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/207399
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/207400

I also posted game logs to BGG. Not as informative, but they might help.
All were using Vassal.
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/158821
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/172718
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/159139
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/169078

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Chris


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