Pax Britannica is, as the start of the rules say, "a multi-player game that re-creates the dynamics of the colonial era, from 1880 to the outbreak of the Great War." In practice, Pax is a fairly complex board game (or fairly simple war game) that really is a cleverly disguised diplomatic game. In terms of sheer diplomacy, I rate Pax up there with only, well, Diplomacy.
Pax Britannica was written by Greg Costikyan and published by the now defunct Victory Games in 1985. Now having been out-of-print for several years, its enjoying surprising popularity on the internet.
Below are a variety of links from the helpful to the nearly-nonsensical. Let me make the quick and legal point that anything below (or above) is not intended in anyway shape or form to impinge on those who hold the various rights and copyrights to it, but are intended as helpful to those playing by internet (or just interested in Pax) but who don't have a game in front of them...
Game support:
My apologies. For various reasons, I haven't updated this page in a couple years. However, much of what remains is highly useful, so I'm not going to just take the page down. Whilw I do occasional links purges (and my apologies if you do find dead links), I'm no longer actively looking for new links, though I'd be happy to add anything that someone emails to me.
Various Pax home pages:
Reviews and Miscellany:
Non-English links:
If you know of any other Pax resources out there, please EMail me at oenglish{at}pullman.com
This page constructed by Mark O'English.