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Re: [GZG] Question: was Re: [SG3]: What if?



I've got to admit that when I first read it, I thought "the Vietnam war 
and its aftermath" in sci-fi.

Technically speaking, you could design a wargame based on a part for 
particular types of wargamers.  For those opposed to morale rules, you'd 
use the middle bit about the "brainwashed" soldiers who had little to no 
self-preservation insticts and so on.

bob_eldridge wrote:
> Read that, and liked it a lot. What was most interesting to me was the
> "hero" having to deal with radical societal changes as the centuries passed.
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> Anybody ever read "The Forever War".
>
> That's how I imagine a war where there is a serious technological gap.  
> The "hero" fought in every major battle of the war which lasted 
> centuries but aged only a few years because of space time distortion or 
> whatever it was.  The weird forcefield that wouldn't let ANYTHING travel 
> above a certain speed causing the comeback of medieval weapons.
>
> Probably not the best example available but the one I like.
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