Fleet Maneuvers
Fleet Maneuvers (or 3D Fleet Maneuvers) is a closed-end, space-based play-by-mail (PBM) wargame. History and development Fleet Maneuvers was a computer-moderated, closed end, space-based play-by-mail game published by Fantastic Simulations. Gameplay The game's purpose was to score the most points from ship-to-ship combat. Games could end at 700 or 900 points, which took 10–20 turns. Players could choose from four races or factions: the Alliance, the Confederacy, the diminutive Donnz, and the warlike Krell. Fantastic Simulations also introduced a 3D variant called The Next Dimension. Reception Reviewer Keith Mercer, in the July–August 1987 issue of Paper Mayhem magazine stated that the game was challenging. See also List of play-by-mail games References Bibliography Further reading 20th-century role-playing games American games American role-playing games Multiplayer games Play-by-mail games Role-playing games introduced in the 1980s Science fiction games Science fiction role-playing games Space conquest games Space opera role-playing games Strategy games Tabletop games