"Assad's gift to Israel as he runs out on his country" Topic

The London Sun is reporting that Assad traded his escape from Syria for information allowing Israel to bomb Syrian arms and weapons storage facilities. Passing-on a Turkish report, the Sun states that Assad traded the information in return for safe passage for his flight out of Syria. The reports also say that he did not advise his family or close advisors of his intentions to leave the country. Apparently he told his staff that he was going home for the night and then took a chopper out of Damascus.

My question is whether people who game modern conflicts allow for something like this in the rules. I can see where there is the possibility of coalition members changing sides when gaming asymmetric warfare involving non-governmental actors or even nations that may find it expedient to realign during a conflict? What Assad is accused of doing does not necessarily constitute changing sides, he simply betrayed his country. Is treachery even game-able?

What Assad did wouldn't be on the table top, in my opinion, but you could certainly have a scenario in which the Fearless Leader leaves his compound via chopper or convoy after making a deal with another player. The fun thing about playing African Bush wars is that, in multi plyer games, you never know who is going to open fire on you or when. I don't see either scenario requiring a specific rule.

Play Junta.

Bingo.

Yep, this smacks of Junta. Haven't played it since the mid-1980's, but I remember it was a hilarious blast of a good time. You never knew who would do what.

Junta was somewhat similar, in my mind, to the Nuclear War board games. Growing up in the Cold War kind of gave me, and my buddies, a bit of a warped sense of humor -- it helped us to cope with the experiences of Civil Defense drills, and the Fallout Shelter signs we saw in schools and other places, almost daily. We knew the Fallout Shelters were a joke. I grew up in a town designated as a Tertiary Target of the Soviet Union; a Secondary Target city was 40 miles away, and a Primary Target was the Twin Cities, two hour's drive away. Those were different times. Cheers!

It would be if the player's objective could be different from his "sides'". I saw a Little Wars Berlin '45 game over on YouTube where the Soviet side was split into several forces. Each commander had their own objectives and they didn't necessarily involve coordinating with each other. In fact, there were a few, shall we say, 'friendly fire' incidents that were totally 'accidental'! LOL!