I vaguely remember a similar discussion about student projects like this a couple years or more ago. If this was you Rex, good on ya for trying to work the practical into the theoretical. This recent venture is a rad idea as well.
I vaguely remember a similar discussion about student projects like this a couple years or more ago. If this was you Rex, good on ya for trying to work the practical into the theoretical. This recent venture is a rad idea as well.
Andean Abyss
GMT Games is bringing out a series of COIN-themed games. The first, Andean Abyss (2012), explores insurgency and counterinsurgency in Columbia. You'll find my review of it at PAXsims.
Two others—A Distant Plain (on contemporary Afghanistan) and Cuba Libre (on the Cuban revolution)—will be out later this year, and a game on the Vietnam War, A Fire in the Lake, is also in development. A Distant Plain is codesigned by sometimes SWC contributor Brian Train.
They mostly come at night. Mostly.
- university webpage: McGill University
- conflict simulations webpage: PaxSims
and see the links above for the interview with the guys about A Distant Plain
Brant
Wargaming and Strategy Gaming at Armchair Dragoons
Military news and views at GrogNews
“their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of ‘rights’… and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure.” Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers 1959
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Connections 2013 AAR
A brief AAR on the recent Connections 2013 interdisciplinary wargaming conference has been posted at PAXsims.
They mostly come at night. Mostly.
- university webpage: McGill University
- conflict simulations webpage: PaxSims
Little Wars: How HG Wells created hobby war gaming
A rather unusual angle, more nostalgia IMHO from the BBC magazine:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22777029
davidbfpo
An interesting piece by Lisa Lynch (Concordia University) on using a conflict simulation to teach international journalism students:
Foreign correspondents in a simulated civil war
Full disclosure: it is my simulated civil war at McGill University that she uses.
They mostly come at night. Mostly.
- university webpage: McGill University
- conflict simulations webpage: PaxSims
GrogHeads.com is looking for papers that folks might have written for varying research projects on games/gaming. I'm sure some of our FA57s in the audience have something floating around somewhere
Anyway, we're starting a new monthly series on these sorts of academic-focused articles and would love to have y'all submit anything you've got floating around out there that's not necessarily fit for SWJ or other traditional outlets.
announcement text here: http://grogheads.com/?p=2160
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Wargaming and Strategy Gaming at Armchair Dragoons
Military news and views at GrogNews
“their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of ‘rights’… and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure.” Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers 1959
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