Dogs Of War Vu
Sim/Strategy/War => Games Discussion => Topic started by: Asid on February 27, 2017, 09:50:04 PM
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Saturday, February 25, 2017
By: JC
Afghanistan '11 - Not Your Grandpa's War Game
Afghanistan, graveyard of empires. Can you win a war without frontlines?
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Every Single Soldier, the makers of the highly acclaimed Vietnam '65, are beta testing their next instalment in counterinsurgency war games. Everything shown here is from a beta version, so you know ... Things are not final.
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And off course the subject is the war in Afghanistan. Turn and hex based, with non-specified dimensions for both of them, Afghanistan '11 (A11) excels in the abstractions department. It's not only that A11 makes you worry less about game rules and mechanics and focus on dealing with the uneasy task to win a counterinsurgency operation.
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A special operations team dropped on a ridge overlooking one of our FOBs.
Read on: Click Here (http://kriegsimulation.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/afghanistan-11-not-your-grandpas-war.html)