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I am putting together an automated play by email strategy game called Battletech Total War. Now I have had that name for my game before Battletech actually released games with that name. I used Total War because I am a huge fan of the Total War PC games like Rome Total War, Empires Total War and Medieval Total War. In the past play by email games played in excel were bulky, confusing, overwhelming and time consuming for both the players and the admins. Myself and an excel programmer are creating a player sheet that will be easy to read and use by players and has built in processes to automatically process turns, combat and all other aspects of the game. There is some manual things admins will do but it should take less then an hour to process a turn for any number of players.

Each player will control one of 12 nations in the Innersphere. This will include the 5 great houses, 4 minor houses and 3 pirate nations. If we have more players then nations I will consider allowing players to create pirate bands. The Beta will only include the 5 major houses and 55 planets. We will be testing all aspects of the game however from Diplomacy, Espionage and R&D to production, Raids, and Planetary invasions. We will be testing several processes during the beta for transportation, combat processing, Maps and Espionage. We have several ideas for these areas and want to see which one works best in the game. I am fully committed to this project and i have already spent 5 days a week 8 hours a day fro several months on this and I think you will all be impressed and enjoy what I have done. If you are interested in helping out or just giving ideas and opinions please join me at http://battletechtw.proboards.com/. I look forward to hearing from you.