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Let's Get Real

This is a few weeks old, but I hadn't seen it before: "I want a realistic wargame."

Speaking of innocents, I want a War Sim where native townsfolk stand shoulder-to-shoulder on every inch of the map and not a single bomb can be dropped without blowing 200 of them into chunks. Forget about the abandoned building wallpaper in Red Alert 2. I want to have to choose between sending marines door-to-door to be killed in the streets or leveling the block from afar, Nuns and all, with 30 carriers. I want to have to choose between 40 dead troops or 400 dead children, and be damned to Hell by chubby pundits from the safety of their studios regardless of which way I go.

[Via Jim Oberg, who adds,"I would have added, however, an accounting corps who hounded me every few days to provide precise costs of each engagement, including ammo expended.")

Posted by Rand Simberg at December 02, 2005 10:16 AM
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This is actually pretty old. I remember seeing it (or something very much like it) back in 2002ish.

Posted by Big D at December 2, 2005 11:15 AM

As Big D noted, this is a rewrite/expansion of an older version, possibly by a different author. I also wanted to point out a few things.

Point 9 should also include the following:

Every time I develop a new weapon or armor, before development is complete, I should lose Public Support points for not having already equipped every military unit, including the guards of the Tomb of the Unknowns, with the new technology. When the technology fails, I should lose Public Support points for rushing shoddy technology into the field without adequate testing. I should also lose Public Support points every time that I begin development of a new technology, complete with Congressional hearings, because it's clearly not needed/badly designed/too weak/too powerful/should have been developed years ago/should have been funded in a different Congressional district.

Point 6 also needs to be expanded: I should lose Public Support points for everyone the enemy kills, even if they were killing themselves. Anyone who dies in war is my responsibility, even it was in the initial surprise attack against me.

Posted by Jeff Medcalf at December 2, 2005 11:41 AM

Oh, well, given how godawful the reporting about Iraq has been lately, it's not a bad time for a reprise.

Posted by Rand Simberg at December 2, 2005 11:50 AM

Speaking of old topics, how's that pipeline in Afghanistan coming along?

Shouldn't it be done by now? I mean, that was the entire reason why we invaded in the first place...

Posted by Big D at December 2, 2005 11:58 AM

It just shows how much of a quagmire Afghanistan has become that the pipeline has been cancelled.

Posted by Phil Fraering at December 4, 2005 12:41 PM


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