f there are insufficient players for all roles to be filled for that player group.
A minimum of four... ordon and historically chosen as the interlocutor between the Convention and the Castle for this reaso
ther Side of the COIN ======
Or what makes people become insurgents?
This is a game first played on S... guide to Islam}} - some background on Islam, key beliefs and some of the bits that could be relevant to those living in a conflict zone. Of necessity hug... iption =====
This is a game to explore why people become insurgents (or perhaps not).
Most of the pla
indfold
===== Instructions =====
Players need to be divided into two groups, The guessers (2-3 people to be blindfolded in turn) and the whistlers (the remai... on the floor in the middle. The circle shouldn't be too large as the whistlers need to be able to touch the guesser.
As the guesser is brought into the
al institutions. They warn that the country would be thrown into the hands of myriad tribal militias t... .1 million in 1995). The most numerous sub-groups being the Durrani and the Ghilzai. Like a number of other Afghan ethnic groups, the Pushtun extend beyond Afghanistan into Pakistan where they constitu... heartland roughly covers a large crescent-shaped belt following the Afghan-Pakistani border on the ea
ound guilty of theft.
Men were required to grow beards and women had to wear the all-covering burka.... to school.
The Taliban in Afghanistan are still believed to be led by Mullah Omar, a village clergyman who lost his right eye fighting the occupying for
]]) and put on at least one game each year.
I've been a member of CLWG since, I think, 1994 or 1995. ... the actual date. In the just over ten years I've been in the group I've been the admin officer, games organiser and milmud editor. I'm pretty sure I've d... terms in each of those posts, but again I haven't been counting. I've also designed and run a fair num
===== Credits =====
Most of the design work has been by James Kemp, with significant input from Jim ... l, John Rutherford & Jim Wallman.
All errors to be blamed on James Kemp.
===== Design Criteria ===... ach)
===== Level of Resolution =====
This should be two-down from the main action level. The size of ... tanks. On the air front there are only likely to be two or three combat capable craft on each side wi
est single
factor in war. **(Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery)**
===== Overview =====
Eve... will do what the player wants when the situation becomes difficult.
Morale checks roll 1d6 and roll less than the modified morale number to be successful.
This is only tested when one of the conditions mentioned below is reached, once morale has been tested once f
ach)
===== Level of Resolution =====
This should be two-down from the main action level. The size of ... tanks. On the air front there are only likely to be two or three combat capable craft on each side wi... nding from orbit.
==== Orbital ====
There could be orbital reconnaissance or even weapons platforms, the latter being most likely to be of similar capability to art
fantry firing, except Small Arms Air Defence (see below), uses 1d10 per stand firing. Officers (and ot... t individually based figures in the same place to be the same size as a stand would be then they may fire collectively as if they were one stand.
==== I... slow// aircraft.
The probability of an aircraft being hit depends on its speed, manoeuvrability and
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Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low morale,
the battle is as g... the troops are and how flexibly you can use them. Better trained troops will have smaller groups represented by a single stand, they will also be harder to hit. Each infantry unit will also have a morale rating which will be the target number for morale rolls when required.
o turn as they carry out the orders.
Orders can be changed only by a senior officer. So a platoon commander needs to be given orders by their own Company Commander and t... s that are in line with the orders that they have been given.
Orders are likely to be of the flavour "Seize and hold the bridge at Grid 648382"
==== Po
atest single
factor in war. (Field marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery)
This is only tested when one of the conditions mentioned below is reached, once morale has been tested once for a particular condition then it should not be tested again for that group.
==== Group morale
imes,
irrespective of how competitive they may be. This is the spirit of the wargame."
//**Bob Cor... work in progress on doing a set of rules that fit between Jim Wallman's 'Starship Soldier' and 'Plan A
