Class War Games
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ltmurnauAh-ha!
At last, photographic evidence that people play my games and enjoy them! (or, at any rate, laugh while bits of one of my games are spread out below them on a beer-soaked table)
They are playing my game Red Guard, the only game published (so far) on the Chinese Cultural Revolution (http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/6723). The occasion was the second "CLASS WARGAMES CLUB NIGHT" on April 21, at The Fleapit, a pub/cafe in London. Other games they played included Steve Jackson's Coup (simpler smaller hex-based game, not about a coup so much as overcoming popular resistance to one), Guy Debord's The Game of War (a game with an interesting history, not least because of its author), and Anders Fager's card game Comrade Koba .
The players belong to a group called "Class Wargames", they seem to be an interesting bunch.
http://www.classwargames.net/pages/aboutus.html.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=58141166910
Well, anyway, if I ever return to London there's a place to look up....
Meanwhile, my illness abates but I still have a lingering cough. Spent Saturday playtesting![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dzherzhinski's new card-based game, Petrograd 1917. He has been working on it for years, the game includes over 400 cards featuring over 150 personalities from the major political movements in Petrograd at the time, each with an individual portrait and ratings reflecting his painstaking research. Fortified with lemonade and cheese larva, we played and argued far into the afternoon. The best way for the leadership of the Provisional Government to affect play remains to be seen, and proven by further testing.
At last, photographic evidence that people play my games and enjoy them! (or, at any rate, laugh while bits of one of my games are spread out below them on a beer-soaked table)
They are playing my game Red Guard, the only game published (so far) on the Chinese Cultural Revolution (http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/6723). The occasion was the second "CLASS WARGAMES CLUB NIGHT" on April 21, at The Fleapit, a pub/cafe in London. Other games they played included Steve Jackson's Coup (simpler smaller hex-based game, not about a coup so much as overcoming popular resistance to one), Guy Debord's The Game of War (a game with an interesting history, not least because of its author), and Anders Fager's card game Comrade Koba .
The players belong to a group called "Class Wargames", they seem to be an interesting bunch.
http://www.classwargames.net/pages/aboutus.html.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=58141166910
Well, anyway, if I ever return to London there's a place to look up....
Meanwhile, my illness abates but I still have a lingering cough. Spent Saturday playtesting
dzherzhinski's new card-based game, Petrograd 1917. He has been working on it for years, the game includes over 400 cards featuring over 150 personalities from the major political movements in Petrograd at the time, each with an individual portrait and ratings reflecting his painstaking research. Fortified with lemonade and cheese larva, we played and argued far into the afternoon. The best way for the leadership of the Provisional Government to affect play remains to be seen, and proven by further testing.
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Date: 2009-06-06 10:32 am (UTC)