LogFAQs > #926535699

Well yeah but if you play it in one sitting it's like a 6-10 hour game.

The way it goes is you have rounds of discussion where you're allowed to just talk to the other players and make alliances or make enemies or whatever, then everyone submits their orders for where and how their armies and fleets will move on the board. You process all the orders simultaneously (and find out who kept their word and who betrayed you, etc) . Then that cycle basically just repeats until the game is over.

So in the face to face game, each round of discussion is 15 or 20 minutes long. For online you just expand that phase to be 1 or 2 or 3 days or however long you want.