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Wargaming => The Modern World => Topic started by: bayonetbrant on January 10, 2023, 01:18:18 PM
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Designer Alex Knight will be teaching this one at The ACDC with us this weekend
More info here
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/375931/land-and-freedom-spanish-revolution-and-civil-war
will be available from Blue Panther in a few weeks
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Really much looking forward to this one! I've signed up for the teaching session on sunday.
Unfortunately, I haven't really have the time to continue working on the next two phase decks for To-day the struggle, since the ConSimGameJam, although all the notes are prepared. Argh. Anyways, great to see more political games coming up, especially on this highly complex conflict.
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Very interesting game. Looking forward to get mor eplays in of this one.
I found it very interesting to see that both games share some approaches. It's great to think about those representations of the past and how they are shaped by and shaping the perception of the war and so on, from a historical game studies perspective as well.
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https://twitter.com/LandandFreedom1/status/1620807053957816321
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https://boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/142455/designer-diary-land-and-freedom-or-engineering-del
I've always been fascinated by the Spanish Civil War, but not for the military history normally represented in games on the topic. If you're into military simulations, you can find wargames that do that better than anything I'm going to create. What interests me about the Spanish Civil War is precisely that it wasn't just a war; it was also a revolution.
In 1936, the Spanish working class began the largest-ever experiment in self-management in a modern economy, with workers taking over industrial and agricultural production on a vast scale and running them collectively. At the same time, the women of Republican Spain carried out a sexual revolution, demanding equality from the home to the trenches.
The revolution was defeated. Franco's fascist army, supplied with tanks and planes from Mussolini and Hitler, slowly squeezed the life out of the Republic while the Western powers sat and watched. At the same time, the Republic was at war with itself; Liberals, Socialists, Communists, Anarchists, and regional separatists could not look past their opposing political agendas to maintain a united anti-fascist alliance.
The dilemma of the fragile alliance is the core of what I was determined to explore in this game. I wanted players to put themselves into that dilemma and viscerally feel both sides of the quandary. On one side, you know that if you and your allies fail to work together, you are doomed. On the other side, you cannot possibly trust your allies because as soon as you drop your guard, they will take advantage. The only solution is to do both: fight the fascists and pursue your political objectives at the same time.
It wasn't easy to create a game that captured that delicate balancing act between co-operation and competition. I started working on it in 2018, but the first prototypes were far too long and far too similar to a traditional wargame.
more at the link
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#UnboxingDay ~ Land & Freedom from Blue Panther Games
https://www.armchairdragoons.com/articles/reviews/unbox/unbox-landf/