Combat in play by post is always a bit of a slog, but how would I efficiently go about running combat for Twilight 2000 4e?

Tips? Tricks?

In reply to CTWraith (msg # 1):

You could always have your players roll a bunch of times in advance.  Roll "to hits" (however that works out for the game you are playing), "dodge" or "reistances", "perception" and so on.  All the things you expect them to have to roll fairly often.

Say 20 times each.  Then, as those rolls come up, you can simply ask them what ones they want to use.  Or you yourself could choose/randomly roll from those pre-rolled numbers.  Could probably speed up combat.

Or maybe do freeform or some "lite" way of doing combat for most of the fighting, and then just have them do the "end boss fight" as per the usual rules.

Have each player state what they are going to do with a couple of alternatives in case the first action is invalid when it gets to their time, and then you, the GM, could make any needed rolls in their names. Since the dice roller is random and person agnostic, it doesn't matter who makes the roll. Would allow you to speed up things significantly since you wouldn't have to wait on each player.

Thanks for the advice! I may use a combination of both. Rules lite for minor antagonists, full blown, GM rolled combat based on what the player wishes to do when it comes to end stage combat.

In reply to pdboddy (msg # 2):
I used to use this idea for Star Wars D6.  When I got bored, I would just start rolling dice or a die-roller to generate numbers for certain situations that the PC's don't know what they're rolling for.