After Therion and I have played a few times using the interesting HeroSkype system via facebook, I have a few comments about the...experience.
Our first game was slow, but steady. Getting over the learning curve of just using the grid and trying to relay the movements was a daunting task. We worked it all out...after 3 hours. That's about 3 times as long as normal game of 'Scape would've taken.
The second was a bit smoother (Therion came up with the idea of taping off the board so that he wouldn't need a grid). It was a slaughter, making game time only about 1.5 hours, but all of our chatting made the game last...a long time.
Our third, and at the time of this writing, final game took a little over 3 hours, despite using 350 point armies. Although the game itself didn't take too long, Therion had the board built wrong. And then upon fixing it, he made it wrong...again.
With the extra time allotted for having to relay and ensure the grid and board are correct upon each move, I think this system is a good and relatively quick way of playing Scape over the web.
Our first game was slow, but steady. Getting over the learning curve of just using the grid and trying to relay the movements was a daunting task. We worked it all out...after 3 hours. That's about 3 times as long as normal game of 'Scape would've taken.
The second was a bit smoother (Therion came up with the idea of taping off the board so that he wouldn't need a grid). It was a slaughter, making game time only about 1.5 hours, but all of our chatting made the game last...a long time.
Our third, and at the time of this writing, final game took a little over 3 hours, despite using 350 point armies. Although the game itself didn't take too long, Therion had the board built wrong. And then upon fixing it, he made it wrong...again.
With the extra time allotted for having to relay and ensure the grid and board are correct upon each move, I think this system is a good and relatively quick way of playing Scape over the web.
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