{"id":663,"date":"2007-05-30T17:44:29","date_gmt":"2007-05-30T21:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/05\/30\/twilight-struggle-a-during-action-report\/"},"modified":"2008-05-01T11:08:48","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T15:08:48","slug":"twilight-struggle-a-during-action-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/05\/30\/twilight-struggle-a-during-action-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Twilight Struggle: A During Action Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I mentioned my experiences with Paths of Glory<\/em> a few weeks ago, one commenter asked about doing an AAR of my futile efforts against Bruce Geryk. I replied that I wasn’t quite sure how that would work. Now we are going to find out.<\/p>\n

Twlight Struggle<\/em> is a two player card based strategy game from GMT<\/a>, makers of Paths of Glory<\/em>, Command and Colors<\/em> and the Great Battles of History series<\/em>. It has a Cold War theme (well executed, in my opinion) and has a number of nice little features that make it both easy to learn and challenging to play. Bruce and I will be playing this with the VASSAL engine<\/a> mod of the game.<\/p>\n

This is not intended to be a poor man’s “Tom versus Bruce”, especially since Dr. Geryk has a good chance of winning this time. Hopefully it will be a chance for the two of us to discuss design issues, strategy and why the Communists could never have won the Cold War. Bruce will be a partner in blogging while the game is ongoing, which means he’s getting admin privileges here. Don’t piss him off. If it works, I might try something like this with other games and maybe other opponents.<\/p>\n

The two of us have to work out the rules about reading each other’s posts. And I’ll try to work out the image upload thing so I can post snapshots of the game board as we go along. Any ideas or insights will be welcome.<\/p>\n

I’m Soviet Russia. Bruce is the Red, White and Blue. Cards have been drawn.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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