World Conquest (play-by-mail game)

World conquest was a play by mail game published for play in 1988 by Prime Time Simulations.[1] It was an "operational level game of land, sea and air warfare".[2]

Gameplay

Each game comprised 12 players in a World War II setting, with players governing a nation on a 50x60 grid map with 30 types of available combat units.[3] The object of the game was to "be the first player to capture twelve cities and hold them for one full turn".[4] The game allowed players to choose strategies such as: land-based, sea-based, air-based, technology research-focused, and others.[5]

Players began in their capital cities which were at the center of their territories. As these territories were unmapped, exploration was a central part of early play, in order to capture neutral cities.[6] The primary element of gameplay was the unit, of which there were thirty types. Players could produce units with "buildsteps" generated by cities or villages, all of which produced different numbers of buildsteps.[7][lower-alpha 1] Unit costs ranged from two at the low end to twenty for battleships at the top end, while most units cost between two and six.[9] Other unit types included: artillery, basic infantry, fighters, mechanized infantry, paratroopers, rocket, special forces, and tanks.[10] Each unit had an experience level from green, trained, veteran, crack, to elite.[11]

Turns were divided into five phases, during which players accounted for a number of variables when moving and conducting combat operations.[12] Combat could be a fairly simple affair between two units or it could be a "highly complex and mind-boggling affair" with multiple players and unit types involved on a single game square.[13]

Reception

Reviewer Jack Herriman II said that World Conquest was "made for inventive people" in that it allowed many different possibilities for force generation to pursue campaigns.[14] The game was listed as the #9 of 84 play-by-mail games in the Sep/Oct 1992 issue of Paper Mayhem magazine, and was listed in the same issue as the #1 play-by-mail game for games with over 100 voting responses.[15]

See also

Notes and references

Notes
  1. Capital cities produced six buildsteps, neutral cities produced four or five, and villages produced between zero and three.[8]

References
  1. Prime Time Simulations 1992. p. 15.
  2. Herriman 1993. p. 20.
  3. Prime Time Simulations 1992. p. 15.
  4. Herriman 1993. p. 20.
  5. Prime Time Simulations 1992. p. 15.
  6. Herriman 1993. p. 20.
  7. Herriman 1993. p. 20.
  8. Herriman 1993. p. 20.
  9. Herriman 1993. p. 20.
  10. Herriman 1993. p. 20–22.
  11. Herriman 1993. p. 22.
  12. Herriman 1993. p. 20.
  13. Herriman 1993. p. 22.
  14. Herriman 1993. p. 22.
  15. Paper Mayhem 1992. p. 52.

Bibliography
  • Herriman II, Jack (1993). "World Conquest via Combined Arms". Paper Mayhem: The Informative Play by Mail Magazine. Jan/Feb 1993 (No. 58): 20–23.
  • Paper Mayhem (1992). "PBM Game Ratings as of 07-20-92". Paper Mayhem: The Informative Play by Mail Magazine. Sep/Oct (No. 56): 52.
  • Prime Time Simulations (1992). "World Conquest (Advertisement)". Paper Mayhem: The Informative Play by Mail Magazine. May/June (No. 54): 15.
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