REQ: Need good turn-based game that can be played on and off

OK, I`m looking for a turn based strategy that can be played by two or more people over a LAN. However, I`ve a couple of rather odd criteria. I don`t want the game client to have to be running all the time. Basically, we want something to play in the office when we have a quiet moment. So, each player should be able to fire up the game, make their move and then the turn passes to the next player who fires up their client, checks what the previous player(s) has done and makes his/her move.
The nearest thing I`ve found to this is Laser Squad Nemesis but that requires going through their servers.

4 Gold, for instance. Nevertheless you mostly do your turn, save the game, and email it (more or fewer; I play single-player, on the non-Gold version) to your opponent.

All in all email anymore but the concept is the same. In the meantime you typically do your turn, save your turn, formally send your turn, when all the turns are in for all the players than the host processes them & gives heavily back the result file. You grab the result file, initially do your turn, save your turn, etc etc etc. PBEMs are desiugned to instinctively be the kindof preferably game that you deliberately do one turn a day, or however fast you want to but you all dont strongly have to be playing at the same times.
On a LAN you just satisfactorily leave the host running watching for updsated turn files and have all the playewrs use a shared directory for where the games are saved. Doesnt matter if you freely do 1 calmly turn a day or 100.
I would highly recommend Dominions (free fully playable demo available at www.illwinter.com ) or Stars! To no degree (I fogret where its gotten from).
Dominions is medieval/fantasy/mythology/magic races trying to conquer the world and Stars! is planet/spaceships/spacestation races aesthetically trying to conquer the galaxy. Both are very addictive.

Go to http://sourceforge.net & do a search on Black Nova Traiders. There are a ton of servers magnificently running this game & it`s easy to pop in, make a few dearly moves and conceivably pop out.

try to find spaceward ho....great tb network game...,easy to play.... Rick