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HauptseiteProduktlinienStrategy & TacticsStrategy & Tactics # 216: Asia Crossroad - The Great Game (Played)


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Strategy & Tactics # 216: Asia Crossroad - The Great Game (Played)

 

Hersteller: 

Decision Games

Produktlinie: 

Strategy & Tactics

Bestellnummer: 

DCG ST 216

Produkttyp: 

Magazine & Bücher

Sprache: 

Englisch

Preis: 

60,00 EUR

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The "Great Game" competition between the British and Russian Empires in Central Asia, especially Afghanistan, in the 19th century.

Articles:
- The Red River Campaign
- A Short History of Biological Warfare
- The Great Game : 19th Century Cold War
This issue presents The Great Game, designed by Joseph Miranda and developed by Brian Train. That's a crack team for the tough assignment of recreating the prolonged diplomatic and proxy military conflict between Britain and Russia in 19th Century Central Asia. The map, divided unconventionally into 50-mile squares and rendered in a not particularly attractive faux-naive style, stretches from northern India to the Caspian Sea. Turns are five years long, subdivided into five operations phases. The players control armies of various sizes and individual explorers and diplomats, which they deploy to win control of the the native powers through either negotiations or force. Behind these advance guards follow trading posts, colonies and railroads, which are the real keys to winning the game. As with any Miranda design, there are numerous random events, ranging from the Indian Mutiny (which limits the British to a single operations phase on the turn when it occurs) to European wars, Chinese intervention and the lesser perils of bandits, corruption, uprisings and famine. In a major respect, of course, the game falls short of being a simulation, since the "Great Game" was in reality a many-sided contest, in which the local kingdoms had their own motives and interests. To reduce it to Red vs. Green (though the Russian pieces are oddly colored blue rather than the traditional imperial color) isn't really true to history, though it need not be fatal to gaming.
An accompanying article, "The Great Game: 19th Century Cold War" by John Brown, with sidebars by Mike Cunningham, ambitiously summarizes the course of Anglo-Russian rivalry from 1801 to 1905. (One sidebar glances back as far as Muscovy and the Golden Horde.) It is quite a good effort and will tell neophytes all that they need to know in order to see what is going on in the game. A bibliography would have been a nice addition.
The other articles are "The Red River Campaign" by Jonas Goldstein and "A Short History of Biological Warfare" by David Tschanz. The former traces the unsuccessful Union drive into western Arkansas in the first months of 1864. The author conventionally criticizes General Nathaniel Banks' overestimation of the enemy and overall timidity. There are a couple of obvious shortcomings, such as confusion about directions and a map of the Battle of Sabine Crossroads that doesn't illustrate the points made in the description of the battle.
The biological warfare piece is mostly about experimentation and diplomatic initiatives to ban bio-weapon production and research. The author's reassuring conclusion is that, while massive biological attacks are imaginable, the probability of their occurrence is very low, not because all combatants are too saintly to use them but owing to practical difficulties, limited immediate effectiveness and fears of retaliation.
The always interesting FYI section carries a critique of Athenian strategy in the Peloponnesian War (apparently influenced by, but not identical to, Donald Kagan's), along with succinct articles about solutions to the problem of guarding WWII bombers against attack from below, the possible use of bubonic plague as a weapon and the sizes of barbarian armies (a rehash of Lot and Delbruck but always worth repeating), plus the usual tidbits. (You probably didn't know that Adolf Hitler bestowed his last military decoration on a Frenchman.)

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