bradmbrown
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Joined: 7/20/2001 From: The irrelevent north Status: offline
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I just thought of this in the shower...
Imagine this dose of swift kick in the arse "simulation:" You turn your AV around a corner on an unscouted roadway, you are in a hurry, the unit and the convoy following, is needed very badly up there, on a hill or something. There, for as far as your unit can see is a row of huge stacks of civilian units. They do not belong to your side so you can't click them and order them off the road.
I don't know how to do that in SPWAW (yet). HOWEVER: I think I may set up a tabletop miniatures game and include a horde of refugees clogging the roads, backed up for miles around and camped in huge clusters. Instead of tanks, artillery and infantry, I will grant one boy a couple APCs and a food convoy and have him escort them to the refugees. His friend can take the side of a local warlord with a couple squads of irregulars, with shiny new ATMs... If the boy with the food convoy gets to his objective, he wins the game. If the other boy, the one running the warlord side, wins, then I, the referree, will say something like "Warlord Grablx, you have beaten the NWO side. Congratulations. The food convoy did not get through to the refugees there, by the river. Your troops love the rice and beans and vitamin pills the destroyed NWO humanitarian convoy left burning. (yummy!) " I will role a couple dice and then announce that due to the warlord's great victory, seventy five thousand moms dads and kids died from drinking bad water and bullet ventilation. I think this may be a sneaky way for me to get the kids to think a bit, without the need for a "talk from dad."
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