Good evening you are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zakney.

Join me today to wind down our winter of wargaming.

We welcome back, our elite irregular panelist, Dr. Brzgerick.

Hello to all of the gamers.

So today we're going to be talking about war games a little more generally than we've been discussing them

these past couple months. In particular, we're going to be talking about specificity in war game

design. And this is something that sort of grew out of a lot of conversations that Bruce and I

were having during my visit there a week or so ago. And, you know, just to give

you a little framework for that, the games that Bruce, you and I were sort of sitting there

in the ever-growing stack of games we meant to play during that weekend. You know, the ones I think

that we gravitated to most strongly tended to be very specific

to a given topic.

Not just that they tended to not, they tended not to fit your classic like ASL model, a million

cardboard chits each representing a unit, and it's all

about tactical movement, they tended to be maybe a little more customized to a very particular

type of, of contest, military contest, or in the case of Churchill, military political.

And we tended to steer away from maybe a little more of your classic,

what is sometimes called the beer and pretzels war game.

And I have found that that's kind of the direction my tastes are running overall.

And one thing I've been trying to sort of tease apart is whether I've just gotten a little

burned out on the classic style of war game and am gravitating towards these more specific

types of games, or if there's something deeper going on here that's leaving me unsatisfied by these tactical systems.

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