Comments on: “A Lost Ludology”

By: Matt K.

Matt K. — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 02:32:21 +0000

Cooperation: absolutely, particularly in “monster” wargames, many of which can only be played in teams. Campaign for North Africa, anyone?

By: Zone of Influence » Talk at University of Maryland

Zone of Influence » Talk at University of Maryland — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 02:25:22 +0000

[...] meet a couple of new local gamers, including the gent behind Flash of Steel, where there is a nice write-up of the proceedings. From there I also stumbled across this entry on Soren Johnson’s Designer’s Notes blog [...]

By: Troy

Troy — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 02:08:37 +0000

It was cooperation for tabletop games about war that were the sticking point, I think. Republic of Rome is both cooperative and competitive, and you give good examples of cooperative games.

A wargame with teams is not unusual now that I think about it – even Axis and Allies does this.

By: Scott R. Krol

Scott R. Krol — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:23:29 +0000

I’m surprised that it was a struggle to think of cooperation on the tabletop. If not restricted to consims you have many games, such as Arkham Horror, A Touch of Evil, which are cooperative game systems.

In the world of consims any grand strategic WWII game is a cooperative game (players of the Allied nations versus players of the Axis nations), and many other wargames can become cooperative games. Operation Market-Garden could have one player playing XXX Corps, one playing the airborne forces, and one or two playing the Germans.