Jaedar
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The Prince of Darkness has vanished and the Infernal Throne sits empty. A conclave of the Powers and Potentates of Hell will be summoned to Pandemonium to select the next ruler of The Infernal Pit. Do you have what it takes to claim the throne and rule Hell?
Solium Infernum is a turn-based strategy game based on intrigue and scheming. The goal, as stated above, is to claim the throne of hell for yourself. You can do this through a variety of mechanics such as sorcery, martial strength, prestige and many forms of cunning.
As usual, the AI is not quite good at deception, so the game only really shines in multiplayer which requires players. We previously had a game going with codexers but it was brought down by the sloth of one of the participants who shall remain unnamed. But a few months have passed, and this game is very good, so I want to try again.
What you will need to participate in this glorious effort of diplomacy and ruthless backstabbing is a copy of the game(legit or yarr'd) and enough free time to play one turn per day. Since the game will likely take more than a month at this rate this is not an insignificant investment. More than one turn per day would be lovely, but it's hard to pull off with different time zones. It takes about 5 minutes to download, play, and upload your turn files if you know what you want to do in the game.
Mechanics wise, you start the game by creating your archfiend with the very robust character editor. You get a certain number of actions per turn, 2 by default but it can be increased to as much as 6 as the game goes on. Players actions then get executed in a rotating order. Most actions also require one or more of four resources( souls, ichor, darkness and hellfire) which must be gathered, either by your minions or by demanding them from other players.
The game requires 4-6 players. If there are more folks than that interested, we'll try to find a solution.
RPS did a pretty good AAR of the game which can be found here.
pinging ironyuri , TripJack