(°- Xposted on the VSF & SF boards since several regular posters there showed an interest in fictitious Lace Wars campaigns, at least if ‘spiced' with Sci-Fi elements: perfectly endvisageable here if kept «Oversky»: link ; TMP link , TMP link .
°- Xposted on the Pirates board since some postersare interested in conflicts in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbeanat a later date, while as in History conflicts in Mythical Europe are echoed in the New World: link . And also because the situation there may be quite different from what ‘we know' (traditionalist Spanish troops still in morion by the mid-18th C., e.g.), and piracy may still be rampant: link )
Re. A (fictitious) Lace Wars *battle report* just posted on his *blog* by a SOLO wargamer: link
After the successful ‘premiere' «battle by proxy» TMP link of the ‘Emperor vs Elector' TMP link group emperor-elector.blogspot.com the ‘battle of Tippelbruder' was planned. Owing to the hard realities of ‘The Real World™' it was fought only on jan. 27: link
This time, a SOLO wargamer acting as a neutral ‘proxy' played (using of course his own minis and favorite rules) the battle following the map movements of no less than 8 different forces. The interesting point is that the ‘proxy' lives in Arkansas, while the army of a fictitious 18th C. country ‘from British Columbia' stagonia.blogspot.com challenged the converged contingents sent by 7 gamers link scattered across the whole North America and Great Britain.
Of course PBM, then PbeM wargame campaign exist for decades. BUT the originality here is that the EvE group don't bother with distances, duration of travels and logistics: map movements are just *excuses* for such ‘battles by proxy', adding enjoyable exchanges between members of that congenial, convivial and collegial bunch.
Such ‘proxy battles' are gratifying both for the Solo wargamers who are fully part of a common effort, link and for the ‘proxied' players who are allow to campaign together while they could never, materially, meet across a table-top. Thus the members of ‘EvE' are currently ‘stirring the pot' in their campaign to multiply the opportunites for such games in 2008:
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Then this group of Imagi-Nation rulers scattered up to tens thousands of miles apart, will enjoy far more than just the possibility to exchange local news and jolly diplomatic missives. Before the instauration of such ‘battles by proxy' the Mythical Europe was divided in as many *independant* theatres of operations as many ‘local groups': Gallia vs Hesse-Seewald (Bill Protz vs Jim Purky, to mention names notunknown here), the ‘Mieczyslaw – Norden – Saxe-Beartsein triangle'… and, chiefly, as many warring pairs of Imagi-Nations as there are solo gamers in the group. With the ‘proxied battles', all can potentially interfere / interact – providing to all a gratifying feeling of ‘sharing' and ‘belonging'.
BTW, with reference to my posts on this board: TMP link
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I have now on my blog link
50+ working links to blogs or sites devoted to fictitious Lace Wars Imagi-Nation(s), and 7 more are richely and –regularly illustrated in the messages, Files and Photos folders of the Old School Wargaming link
and SocDaisy link Yahoo groups.
If you know of a currently active Lace Wars fictitious wargaming Country not repertoried on my listing, please carry forward the info!
Best,
Jean-Louis
Aka Louys of Monte-Cristo, that crazy ruler of a Monaco-like micro-statelet who dreams of sending aether-propelled dirigibles to Mars link , perhaps in the hope of bringing back Martian Askaris and Sepoys to reinforce his skeletal military forces link .
