How about a quick game of Fire in the East?
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Posted on 11/09/2019 10:12:54 AM PST by gandalftb
On Tuesday, Nov 12th (6 pm ET / 3 pm PT), we’ll be hosting a SIGNAL online play festival to bring together as many players as possible for a one-time event.
Join students, policy scholars, military experts, and others across the world playing together to help better our understanding of strategic stability.
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Researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratory and UC Berkeley are testing an online strategy game called SIGNAL (Strategic Interaction Game between Nuclear Armed Lands).
That's right, nuclear war, toe to toe with the Ruskies, and others.
By observing non-military people playing the game, PoNG can learn about human decision-making during nuclear conflicts.
RAND has been running war games for years and understood that their results only mattered if elites played the games.
This is an attempt at real world results.
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How about a nice game of chess.
We played a wargame one day using a point system. My opponent was a doctoral candidate from the UK. I knew he was smarter than I was and in a long term game he would probably win. A nice chap though.
On the first play of the game I nuked him. Game was over.
Our professor came around to see how we were doing. He asked my opponent, how's it going obviously thinking he was wiping the floor with my rear end.
In a rather stoic British accent he said, he won.
Our professor was stunned. How he asked?
He nuked me on the first play.
Our professor asked why I did that.
My reply was the object of war is to win.
The look on their faces was to say the least one of stunned disbelief.
How about a quick game of Fire in the East?
Interesting.
I think the object of war is to get your opponenet to stop fighting.
Nuking them would certainly qualify. And, there is no winning the peace afterwards to worry about.
Nasty, but effective.
I wonder what they would think if some players took action based on the books “Unintended Consequences” or Term Limits” where various elected officials and bureaucrats were taken out.
Need a good game of ASL, Panzer Leader, or, Campaign for North Africa.
I’d be happy with Russian Campaign, or, even Barbarosa
I have a goodly chunk of SPI quad games on the boat. Plus ASL starter kits, Panzer Leader and Blitz and a few others.
I saw, “Wargaming” and thought of Wargaming.net, so I got really excited. Not the same thing.
Still though, that’s fascinating.
Have a lot of AH and Avalanche press games including all of the original squad leader games, but didn’t get into asl.
Also lots of 1/1250 ships from navis and neptune, as well as other manufacturers in 1/1200 from ancients to ww2. Nothing like range estimation using fletcher pratt rules to get the feel of the big gun era. started in the 70’s with Dunkirk, Richelieu, Tourville, Suffren, and the 5 dd’s of the Le Fantasque class as well as super destroyer Mogador. This was for an early war 1939-1940 naval campaign looking for german raiders in the atlantic. Much more fun than chess.
I have the squad leader set, but, in the last 10 years, Multi-man Publishing put out a set of ‘starter kits’ for ASL that has gotten me interested.
I have a large collection of games in my storage unit, but, living on a boat has limited my collection for the time being.
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