Triples saw the first public outing of the new Wargame Developments game Better Red than Dead. In this the players have to try to achieve promotion but run a number of risks - death in wars, purges and the Gulag. And that's all before the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War! We ran the game throughout the weekend - several times with the full complement of six players. Outcomes were, to say the least, somewhat varied! One game saw none of the players survive (no surprise...) while another had an astonishing three survivors. Very suspicious - the NKVD have arrested their families just in case...
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Players were encouraged to get into the spirit of the thing by wearing silly hats. Stuart and Bess lead are seen here leading from the front. |
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The Red Army was not above conscripting child soldiers! Proletarian hero Kevin herds his children into the front line. |
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Players were always please to receive their medals at the end of the game! |
6 comments:
Nice post Tim. I will not tell the UN about your breech of the Child Soldiers charter.
Paul
The game was set in the pre-UN days, but if you have any complaints please address them to 'Comrade Stalin, The Kremlin, Moscow'. I'm sure that 10 years in a Gulag will give you time to reconsider your reactionary views.
I love the sound of this game you played. Looks like the players enjoyed themselves. Perhaps, the League of Nations is the correct jurisdiction?
Adelaide Gamer
Better, Comrade - but I don't think we'll be joining The LoN either. The full game is likely to appear in Nugget (the journal of Wargame Developments) in the coming year. Perhaps you should join?
I'd have to sort out something with pay pal before that happens anytime soon, though the public pages look interesting enough to warrant the effort. It also looks like August is the month to do this so I'll try and remember till then.
Enjoy the conference!
Adelaide Gamer
Go on - you know it makes sense! I posted reports here of some of the goings-on at last year's conference and will no doubt be doing so again next month.
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