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iEuro

16 Jul, 2014 @ 9:05pm

Multiplayer?

This may be a simple question, but how do I play this game with other people? On the store page it says it's multiplayer, but I can't figure it out in-game. There are no threads about this, or guides, and I checked the website there was no information about it either. Any help?

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iEuro

16 Jul, 2014 @ 9:51pm

Apparently, you play this game via email. I found this guide in the comments on another thread.

http://www2.wastelands-interactive.com/shared/Strategic_War_in_Europe_Manual.pdf

You should make a sticky thread and put the guide on it, or upload the guide to the Guides section.

I can see that the Hot Seat game mode was removed. A bug I found, when you make a PBEM game, and you end your turn, you can't leave. Pressing esc doesn't work, thus doesn't show any button to quit the game, so you have to forcefully close the game via task manager.

A suggestion I give you, try to make this peer-to-peer somehow, by IP like Hearts of Iron, or something like that. PBEM is very rough, I didn't even know this existed.

Last edited by iEuro; 19 Jul, 2014 @ 12:52am

Sgt. Pepper has Strategic War in Europe

18 Jul, 2014 @ 11:48pm

Yeah you play PBEM, HerkyHawk and myself have played wastelands other titles Time of Fury and Time of Warth this way.

Time of Fury once you complete your turn click on options and select go to main menu, then you can exit. Not sure if SWE is the same way but worth a try

iEuro

19 Jul, 2014 @ 12:51am

It seems very inefficient to do this. This game is new, if this had been released in 1998, I could understand. Even for an indie team, it's just bad... At least make it so that people connect via IP like Hearts of Iron, otherwise the multiplayer is dead.

Last edited by iEuro; 19 Jul, 2014 @ 2:04pm

Kaos Monkey has Strategic War in Europe

19 Jul, 2014 @ 6:22am

PBEM really? Wow, that's a throw back to last millenium. I used to play PBM (remember Avalon Hill?) back in the early 80s before email LOL. I don't think I've done a PBEM game in like 15 years.