Re: [GZG] Question: was Re: [SG3]: What if?
From: Adrian1 <al.ll@t...>
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 16:05:36 +0000
Subject: 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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