"The Pentagon Urban COIN Wargame 1966 " Topic
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| Tango01 | 12 Oct 2018 3:06 p.m. PST |
"This is an early example of an early professional counter insurgency game written for the Pentagon to explore gaming an uprising in an urban area. The game is a multi-player megagame representing a growing urban crisis. The government have their police and the general support of the population. The key is to position the guards at the threatened critical urban infrastructure to increase the chance of detecting bomb threats. They also have their secret police to attempt to discover who the insurgents are. The players representing the public have roles from factory owners to middle class shop keepers. They have to maintain their income, in the face the growing insurgent threat. At the end of the game, they decide the winner by pledging their support either to the government or the insurgents…."
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Oberlindes Sol LIC  | 12 Oct 2018 8:52 p.m. PST |
Interesting. It makes me think of The Battle of Seattle, available here for free: apolitical.info/seattle I got a copy to mine for ideas for a Traveller game I was running years ago, but I've never actually played it. |
| Tango01 | 13 Oct 2018 11:29 a.m. PST |
Thanks!. Amicalement
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goes beyond the straight line.
