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[Delta Foxtrot]

Anyone up for a game of Solium Infernum? 4-6 player game would be nice to get going.  Settings are negotiable but I'll put my preferred ones below. I already have lijacote on board so we only need 2-4 guys more to fill the roster. I can host the game.

Players:
Delta Foxtrot - Delta
lijacote - Dumah
Karlito - Ciacco
Cheeetar - Durus
Il Palazzo - Davi Owie
E. Albright - Miranda

Settings:
Map size - Normal
Map type - Lake of Fire
Places of power - Uncommon
Game length - Normal
Infernal census - No
Rectification expansion - Yes

Spoiler: Map of Hell, turn 1 (click to show/hide)

(click for embiggened version)

Spoiler: Places of Power and their bonuses (click to show/hide)

The Palace on the Lake of Fire
+3 Prestige
+1 Order slot

The City of Dis
+3 Prestige

The Mines of Gehenna
+2 Prestige
+2 Deceit

The Temple of the Damned
+2 Prestige

The Citadel of Wrath
+2 Prestige

The Temple of Lust
+2 Prestige

The Tree of Woe
+1 Prestige
+1 Diabolism

The Great Wheel of Pain
+1 Prestige

The Black Altar of Despair
+1 Prestige

Spoiler: Players' starting legions (click to show/hide)

The Chosen of Durus
Level:          2
Hitpoints:     9

Ranged:       9
Melee:         2
Infernal:      4

Misc:
Black Lightning ( Add 1d4 to Ranged damage if the Legion is able to inflict Ranged damage on its opponent. )
(Cheeetar)



The Slaves of Miranda
Level:          2
Hitpoints:     6

Ranged:       3
Melee:         2
Infernal:      1

Misc:
N/A
(E. Albright)



The Blood of Dumah
Level:          2
Hitpoints:     7

Ranged:       3
Melee:         9
Infernal:      1

Misc:
N/A
(lijacote)



The Disciples of Delta
Level:          3
Hitpoints:     8

Ranged:       3
Melee:         5
Infernal:      4

Misc:
N/A
(Delta Foxtrot)



The Blood of Davi Owie
Level:          2
Hitpoints:     6

Ranged:       3
Melee:         2
Infernal:      1

Misc:
N/A
(Il Palazzo)



The Chosen of Ciacco
Level:          2
Hitpoints:     7

Ranged:       6
Melee:         2
Infernal:      3

Misc:
Fierce ( Add 1d4 to Melee damage if the Legion is able to inflict Melee damage on its opponent. )
(Karlito)

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And for the uninitiated: What is Solium Infernum? More in the spoiler.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The Devil has disappeared. His archfiends (the players) each seek to be selected the new Big Boss of hell. This can be achieved in one of three ways:
1. Have the most prestige when the Infernal Conclave convenes (semirandom, pretedetermined at game start).
2. Assault and hold the Pandemomium (essentially the congress of Hell) for five turns. During this time you're excommunicated, you can't purchase anything from the Bazaar and you're free game for the other players.
3. There are two perks that let a player win the game if another player "wins" the game. These are fairly expensive and require some specialized strategies and they only work if the "winning" player wins by method #1.

How that actually plays out is a game of diplomatic cat & mouse, where players (all members of the infernal conclave) use a fairly comprehensive diplomatic system to bait and drive the others into positions where they either have to relinquish some prestige or open themselves up for limited feudal warfare. This isn't a wargame, though there are legions and the said legions occasionally stomp on each other and can be used to (with careful manipulation) beat players out of the game.

There's a lot of mechanics to dwell on with the game and this post isn't for that. Suffice to say that it's a game of devious diplomacy and fiendish politics.

PBEM how-to for players:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

1. Receive a [name of the game].inv file from game host.
2. Save [name of the game].inv file into your _NewGameStarts folder.
In my win7 the file path is:
C:\Users\User\Documents\SoliumInfernumGame\MultiPlayerSaves\_NewGameStarts
3. Start the game. Select "Multiplayer". Select "Load Game". [name of the game] should appear on the screen. Select it. You should now be asked to select a previously made avatar to be used in the game, do so. This should prompt a dialogue box, click "ok" to dismiss it.
4. Go to your \MultiPlayerSaves folder. There should be a new folder named [name of the game]. In that folder should be a .trn file. Email the .trn file to the host.
5. Wait until the host emails you a .sav file.
6. Save the .sav file to your \MultiPlayerSaves\[Name of the game] folder.
7. Open SI and load a multiplayer game. Do your turn. Press "End Turn".
8. Upon exiting the game you should find a .trn file in the [Name of the game] folder. Email it to the host.
9. Keep passing the .sav/.trn files between host and player until game ends.

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A few links:

The official site where you can look for info, purchase the game for 15$ and download the demo.

If you’ve any interest in learning more about Solium Infernum, this is where to start. If you haven’t any interest in Solium Infernum, this will hopefully start it.

A multi perspective AAR from Rock Paper Shotgun with four of the six players chronicling their game as it went on. Jolly good read that sparked my interest in the game.

Wiki

I can link up some more help resources if someone ends up buying the game and wants to join this one. There's a few good ones that helped me get up to speed really fast.

Spoiler: Additional help resources (click to show/hide)

This two-part picture heavy tutorial helped me get over the UI and basic concepts pretty fast. Beware, it has a sense of humour. The actual help is very solid though even if it's not to your taste.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/23753452/Solium-Infernum-Tutorial-1
http://www.scribd.com/doc/27948141/Solium-Infernum-Tutorial-2

If you want more text to go with your startup help, I found this series of posts informative. It start as an AAR of sorts but evolves into general concept guides.
Way of the Game Parts 1 & 2
Way of the Game Part 3
Way of the Game Part 4
Way of the Game Part 5
Way of the Game Part 6
Way of the Game Part 7
Way of the Game Part 8

Here's a few cheat sheets to better show some of the information found in the manual:
Page 1
Page 2

[Karlito]

I think I have this game from a while back. Probably interested, let me remind myself how this all works. Additional help resources appreciated.

[Delta Foxtrot]

This two-part picture heavy tutorial helped me get over the UI and basic concepts pretty fast. Beware, it has a sense of humour. The actual help is very solid though even if it's not to your taste.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/23753452/Solium-Infernum-Tutorial-1
http://www.scribd.com/doc/27948141/Solium-Infernum-Tutorial-2

That combined with some goofing/playing around with the game a bit got me pretty confident on my abilities to actually play the game. As always with this kind of game, you can reference the manual for some specific info.

If you want more text to go with your startup help, I found this series of posts informative. It start as an AAR of sorts but evolves into general concept guides.
Way of the Game Parts 1 & 2
Way of the Game Part 3
Way of the Game Part 4
Way of the Game Part 5
Way of the Game Part 6
Way of the Game Part 7
Way of the Game Part 8

I'll link these to the OP as well.

[Karlito]

It's all coming back to me now. I'm in.

[Cheeetar]

Yes. A hundred times yes.

[Delta Foxtrot]

Great, now we only need one more player to get a proper game rolling.

My aim with the proposed settings is that the game won't be too long. SI seems to have a nice bit of design that prevents the monumental lategame bloat of something like Dominions, that coupled with semihard cap on game length should mean we can get this game done before 2015. And if this catches on (a man can dream) we can use the settings here as a baseline. Make it a bit bigger, a bit shorter etc..

fake-edit:

And Cheeetar is in too. Ace. How would you guys feel if we waited until next friday or thereabouts before starting the game? You can figure out your arch fiends and it would give us a chance to get a five or six player game going. I know SI is a bit of a niche game and I'm not convinced we'll get full six players, but it'd be nice to give it a chance. If democracy wishes us to just get started tonight, I can do that too of course.

[Cheeetar]

I'd prefer to wait for a more full game.

[lijacote]

I'd like six, certainly, but I would prefer to start before Friday. I'm a glutton for games, what can I say.

A pentad of players is pretty good, y'know, for all dat satanism. Not that six is a slouch either.

[Il Palazzo]

What the hell, I'm in.

By the way, I don't remember a damned thing about how it's played, so give me some time to reread the manual and play a short vs-AI game.

[Karlito]

Yeah, I could use a couple days as well. I'll be fine to start by midweek.

[Delta Foxtrot]

I would prefer to have everyone playing turn #1 by sunday next week, so by all means feel free to (re)acquaint yourselves with the game during the early week.

Ideally we play roughly one turn every one or two days. Since I have to be up and about to process the turns, we probably can't keep quite the same pace as Dominions games do with automated llamaserver. If you guys can't or won't cope with that pace, let me know. We can always go a bit slower if need be but a good pace keeps the interest up for all involved.

Edit:
I found some cheat sheets to help clarify some information and their relations. Far as I can tell it's all from the manual, but more ordered.
Page 1
Page 2

[Il Palazzo]

By the way, is this game resolving turns absurdly slow for anyone else? It takes a couple of minutes on my 4x2.8 GHz AMD.

[lijacote]

It does feel very heavy. I have a worse computer than you do, though.

[Delta Foxtrot]

I played the first ten turns and got at worst a minute long turn, most were in the 20 second range though, going as low as 3 seconds once. I do have a quad 3.4 GHz though. I guess it's fair to say that it's not an optimized game.

[Karlito]

I remember this game being pretty slow when I was learning it last year, and thought that was the fault of the laptop I was using at the time, but it's still seems to chug a little on my faster PC.