Hey Capt!
It appears to be lighter than those other ones. Give the manual a scan?
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By platform, I’m interested in any of the following:
Vassal:
Pax Pamir 2e
Mage Knight
Roads & Boats
Antiquity
Napoleon’s Triumph
BGA:
Innovation (also on isotropic)
Tash-Kalar
Race for the Galaxy (also and preferably on app)
Through the Ages (also and preferably on app)
Res Arcana
Slothninja:
Indonesia
Boardgamecore:
Food Chain Magnate
Wir sin das Volk (never played this)
Orderofthehammer:
Brass (currently already playing this one with SUSD peeps)
Triqqy (never used this):
Tigris & Euphrates
App:
Twilight Struggle
I’ll edit the list if I think of anything else.
Has Vassal worked out the asynchronous equation yet, or does it still require emailing a log file between players?
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I don’t understand what “worked out the asynchronous equation” means, but yes, Vassal can be played by an exchange of turn recordings (oddly called “logs”), by email or Discord or whatever. I find that usually gives me a better view of other players’ turns than text logs on browser platforms.
Since the stated goal of the thread is to track what’s going on, I’ll just note that Captbnut and I have started a game of Tash-Kalar, thanks to this thread. A game I haven’t played in ages. Cheers Acacia!
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Would playing in Vassal cost money?
No, it’s free. There’s an investment in learning the platform, though. Unlike the Yucata/BGA thing, it’s a program you download, then you find and download the Pax Pamir module which the Vassal console will “play.”
Playing asynchronous involves emailing a log file to each other between turns, or creating a common web folder where we upload the log. On your turn, you download the log, load it into Vassal, and then take your turn. Then you export the log and pass it on.
It’s the price you pay for Pax Pamir 
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Oooh, I’d love to since I haven’t played Pax in a bit. Unfortunately, I’m eyeball-deep in schoolwork and don’t know how quickly I’ll be able to learn Vassal. I’ll keep you posted!
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Vassal is not hard to use. The main speedbump is that it doesn’t run on any mobile OS.
In a four player game, once you get used to the flow of load a log, click through it, load the next log, click through it, load the next log, click through it, start a log, take your turn, end the log and send it on, you are good, unless you are like my mum and can’t handle files on your computer (a dozen copies of every family video on her hard drive, because she downloaded them every time she watched them).
I do this all the time! I’ve got out of the habit of considering local storage anything other than transitory. I just use the ‘Downloads’ folder for everything. Well, not quite, but it’s heading that way.
And I’ll try this one more time until I concede that @Inkybloc had the right of it, and threads work better if the game title is in the thread title:
El Grande on Yucata? 3-5 players.
I want to say yes, but work has gone mental.
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I’m trying to come up with a quip linking optometry and “mental” but having surprising difficulty. It’s all in your head?
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I’m impressed you remembered that!
Sad news about Brass on orderofthehammer:
“This site has been deleted permanently. All copies of the database have been destroyed. If you had an account on the site, I no longer have copies of any of your personal data - I have taken care to delete all the copies I had. To be clear, I am no longer storing nor processing any of your personal data in any way.”
Came totally out of the blue today, with no explanation given yet.
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That’s a shame. I wonder what happened 
I wouldn’t be surprised if an official online implementation was coming
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Does sound like a cease and desist type of order came through.
Shame but understandable. Was good while it lasted.