mr_bones_@gentoo.org Michael Sterrett games@gentoo.org Gentoo Games Project From the HOMEPAGE: XBattle is a concurrent multi-player arcade/strategy game that captures the dynamics of a wide range of military situations through numerous options. The game board is a matrix of game cells which can be occupied by troops of various colors, with troop strength indicated by the size of colored markers within a cell. Troops are commanded by clicking the mouse near the edge of an occupied cell in the direction that movement is to take place. XBattle is concurrent, so that commands are given continuously by all players without waiting for turns. A command will be acknowledged by the appearance of a command vector, and thereafter, in each update cycle, a certain proportion of the troops will move from the source cell to the destination cell. In this way, troops can be slowly redistributed via supply lines which steadily deliver troops to their endpoints. Troops of different colors engage in battle whenever they come to occupy the same cell. A wide variety of options are available for configuring troop movement, distribution, and production.