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May 3, 2022 · War gaming. Years ago, military commanders would plan, prepare, and test their tactics on a worn map. They would shift wooden models around the ink and parchment, the models representing the...
Jun 13, 2023 · War games are often seen as controversial. Replaying the atrocities that occurred during a large-scale conflict seems completely inappropriate. Condensing the huge amount of suffering, death and destruction into a game of pushing tiles around a board and rolling dice or playing cards seems perverse.
From visiting conventions to using games as an overt part of its advertising campaigns and regularly interacting with people on streaming platforms like Twitch, it's clear that top officials ...
Nov 28, 2022 · While creating a war game may have no greater ethical implications than creating a war film, we can and should make judgments about my weekday sniping, just as we would make judgments about...
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I think many of us will have had this moment in our childhood where we pointed a stick at another child and shouted “bang” – or maybe another child did it to us – or maybe two other children did it to each other. Either way, an adult probably will have told the children off for pretending to have guns. Society doesn’t approve of guns and other weap...
I reckon everyone reading this article will have been taught in school about at least one war. Some of us will have wanted to learn more about what went on. Finding out about the motivations and goals and how these changed during a conflict can be fascinating. Reading books or watching films is great. Actually playing through a conflict yourself ca...
That doesn’t mean that the war games I just mentioned are or even try to be educational. Wanting to learn more about what happened in real life is up to the players. Even so, I reckon when you play any of the games, you will probably learn one or two things along the way. There also are war games that try to give you at least some insight into what...
Now, there is something else that I find much more interesting than the controversy around war games alone. Some people happily vilify war games and want to see them burn in hell, while happily playing games where you trade in the Mediterranean or pretend to be a Chinese Emperor’s advisor, just because it seems cool. They play these games as a bit ...
I think we need more games that try and tackle sensitive, but important topics. These games need to make a sincere attempt to treat these topics with respect. They don’t need to be dry and boring games. There does need to be something that makes us want to play these games, after all. I don’t know how it would work, but games talking about war, dea...
Now, I would really love to find out how you feel about this. What is your initial reaction to war games? Have you ever thought about what it is you do in the games you play? Do you think a game is just a game? Are there any games you played that really made you want to find out more about something? As always, please share your thoughts in the com...
Undaunted: Normandy review: https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2022/07/23/undaunted-normandy-saturday-review/March on the Drina review: https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2021/08/21/march-on-the-drina-saturday-review/Twilight Struggle BGG listing: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/12333/twilight-strugglePax Pamir: Second Edition review: https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2022/08/27/pax-pamir-second-edition-saturday-review/Intro Music: Bomber (Sting) by Riot (https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/) The following music was used for this media project: Music: Battle For Honor by Michal Mojzykiewicz Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/10053-battle-for-honor License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license The following music was used for this media project...
War/violent games give people a virtual feeling of that without the remorse afterwards since it isn't actually real. That's also why shooting robots or giant monsters in games doesn't appeal to people as much as shooting other human-shaped NPCs.
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Dec 23, 2022 · The one thing they absolutely agree on is that it’s perfectly acceptable to play a wargame and have fun with it. So let’s have a look at the things which turn them from the glorification of bloodshed to something we can enjoy in good conscience. Games as an educational tool. When I was at school, history didn’t do anything for me.
