Dorian, I've just realised you are on the Republican team, and we have been at cross purposes as I thought you were offering the additional Nationalist ...
Unless Dorian has changed his mind about me submitting his supplementary Argument, here it is. Marcus AGUIRRE With 5 new Basque divisions coming ready in the...
The problem with open-ended matrix games is that they have no structure to provide cohesiveness. The ones we've played here have created widely diverging...
The concept of establishing in advance the subject of a turns Arguments has been done before in MGs- most recently with Chris' game about Roman legionaries...
The use of the differnt type of ... This is a good idea. I wrote one game in 2000 called Lone Survivor (that no one has ever played) that told the players what...
Hunting Pablo Mark Bowden author of Blackhawk Down This is the story of Pablo Escobar, of the world's most nortorious narco-terrorists. It's semi biographical...
Good suggestion, Chris sort of outlined a bunch of storylines in his rules, which you can find on his website, for horror, quests, revolutions, war etc....
Durrutti takes the defence of Saragossa in hand. Vital supplies are stock-piled. Buildings are prepared, barracades are erected. Tank traps are dug. The...
MessageI'm OK with this. Thanks, Marcus. BTW - I got a good response from my readers, no major changes and smiles all round, so it's full steam ahead. Dorian...
Greetings all! Family Hayes has now returned back from sunny Scarborough, oddly with better tans than we got from Barcelona. Please get your turn 3 arguments...
Serious Games Summit by Ben Sawyer To readers of this site the news that the Pentagon and other militaries are using games and game-based technologies as...
At the Serious Games Summit in October we feature two keynotes, and another by Johnny Wilson, game-historian and former editor of Computer Gaming World. Hey!...
Last night I was watching the Denis Miller show on CNBC (the first time I've seen this show) and was interested in what he said. He feels that GW made us...
Why not a matrix version of a game like Avalon Hill's Mr. President? There would be players for each ticket, the liberal and conservative media, and liberal...
I think it is possible that GWB's policies are making attacks on USA territory less likely- it is now cheaper and far easier to kill Americans in Iraq. As for...
There is not a single "Iraqi" targeting Americans in Iraq. (Though there are some terrorists doing that.) The Iraqi "insurgents" (which is a misapplied term)...
I guess you could say there is a “war against terrorism”, but only in the same sense that there is a “war against drugs”. Both are struggles against...
... That's pretty much my definition of what "head-in-the-sand" politics is. There is absolutely no similarity or correlation (just as there is no similarity...
"By the way, I see your views as typical head-in-the-sand liberalism." You see that's just it. I don't feel particularly liberal. Remember, my politics is...
... In fact AI was at a dinner with a Canadian yesterday and we talked about picking up the sombrero habbit! He also informed me that liberal is not a dirty...
What I am though is torn between a vision of the US and a non imperial force and as an imperial one. Imperialism died in 1945. The cold war wasn't between two...
... It would **not** surprise me at all if we ultimately found ourselves in yet another "Civil War" about the preservation of the U.S. Constitution,...
John wrote: It's naive to think that the world isn't a violent place (naive to think that the UN actually has a productive role to play) - or that, today, ...
... Australia is certainly no isolationist backwater believing it can simply ignore the rest of the world. And neither is the midwest of America. (Though it's...
I only just found out about this. http://www.fallenpatriotfund.org/ This was founded by Mark Kuban, the billionaire on The Benefactor, who matches donations...
I have returned from the beaches of North Carolina, having successfully dodged Frances and Ivan. As far as I can tell the third turn of the Spanish Civil War...
So it would seem. Paul is just back from holiday as well so I expect he is still getting sand out of his shoes. In the meanwhile we are talking politics. Chris...
Sorry, I was whisked away to Ohio for software training. Nothing exciting in Ohio to speak about. I can't believe you folks started an argument about Iraq...
Hi folks, Chris is right about my vacation and dealing with the mountain of emails and associated paperwork that a week away from the modern public sector...
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