How do people play Mage Wars Arena over Skype without Octgn? Is it possible?
It would be great to be able to play face to face with some people, but it's difficult to think of how to make Mage wars work online using real life game components. It should be possible with Academy, since it only has one zone. Maybe for arena, position tokens would work in place of an actual arena? Like say if the map was labelled like this:
1:1 1:2 1:3 1:4
2:1 2:2 2:3 2:4
3:1 3:2 3:3 3:4
And then you could have a bunch of tokens with these numbers written on them which you could place on every object.
To calculate range, you would just have to subtract one position from another and add the resulting coordinates together. Like if a ballista at 2:2 was to shoot at a mana crystal at 1:1, then range of the attack would be (2-1) + (2-1)= (1)+(1)=2.
What do you guys think?