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Re: Board game design problem

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From: Bruce Harper
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 16:04
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People have said a conrete question would stimulate discussion.  We shall
see.

Here is the question.  It is in the context of the combined Advanced Third
Reich - Rising Sun global war scenario, but probably is general enough that
knowledge of the A3R system isn't necessary.

Design a series of effects which would occur in either Europe or the Pacific
or both had the U.S. been doing poorly in the war and Roosevelt had been
defeated in the 1944 presidential election by a "peace candidate".  The most
extreme result would be U.S. withdrawal from the war in one or both theaters.
Can you provide a list of lesser results which would apply during the final
year of the war, perhaps allowing Germany or Japan to force a stalemate where
they might have lost, or to win where they might have only had a stalemate?

And, as an extra challenge, how would you determine what effects applied.

Post results.  Let's see if there are any game designers watching (this is
not a hypothetical question, by the way - there will be such a rule in Rising
Sun).
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Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 16:04:51 GMT
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