Strategic and simultaneous are for 2 different things.
There is combat: strategic or tactical. I doubt that tactical is possible in PBEM, and at least would not be very advisable for obvious reasons

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Then movement: simultaneous or turn-based. I would always prefer simultaneous in a multi-player game, is much fairer to the players with higher player numbers. It takes some time to get used to it if you have played turn-based vs. AI up to now, but its not more difficult, just different.
So, unfortunately

, I have to agree to Fyron: it is kind of silly not to use PBW.
[ June 05, 2003, 16:54: Message edited by: Roanon ]