Do you have an interest or opinion on whether TMP introduces a new board that caters for discussions and reports on wargaming campaigns and battles based on the maps found in various commercial videogames?
I occasionally play video games like Grand Theft Auto 5 and Medal of Honour not least because I marvel at the talent and creativity used to produce the virtual open world environments and I enjoy leaving the game story to just mooch around the cities and landscape. I love maps.
With GTA 5, I have noted a number of objectives that could be used as part of a wargame of conquest – army/airforce base, Bureau of Investigation, police stations, civic buildings, airport, port, oil wells, research institutes, etc. I am thinking of some hypothetical Chinese PLA helicopter and navy assault on a fictious wealthy USA island city (somewhere off the US West Coast). Players would produce their campaign plan and game it and when battle zones are decided upon the map and 3-D video world can be used to recreate a faithful representation of the video created battle area. Sounds too easy.
gta-5-map.com
But I know nothing about Modern or Ultramodern warfare so if knowledgable TMPers contributed using these maps and plenty of insights and discussions to encourage others into these periods then I say it would be well worthwhile. I would love to know how on a map like GTA5 you would define your objectives, choose your armed forces, and how you would attack or defend.
What say you? Should TMP introduce a new board that promotes discussion on using and gaming campaigns and battles based on the maps created by videogames?
reports from OrcCon 2008.
