Falklands War game map

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Well, if by "the whole thing" you mean making a game on the Falklands War, I would have to disagree. This isnt about picking sides, nor is it about politics. Its not an opinion. Its simple historical facts. This is about historical events, and how to better understand their inter-relationships through a game. Now, not everyone would want to play a game on such a topic, and I completely understand that. I have a good friend who I regularly play board wargames with, but he wont play any games dealing with post WWII conflicts. And that's OK. Personally, I find the topic fascinating, and working and playing a game like this only makes me want to read up on it to understand it better.

Sorry, I didn't mean that the idea of a Falklands based game in general is bad but rather the tone that I get from both game boards. Whether it's intentional or not, they both feel like they are trying to be provocative. The first in particular gives a sense of being provocative in a vague way that could be interpreted either as a trivialization of Argentina, or as casting the British as arrogant warmongers. The second comes across as casting the whole thing as being purely on Margret Thatcher. I may not particularly like Thatcher but that's a rather biased and partisan way of casting it which I find rather grating. That it's a single player game where the player is always the British may be taken badly by some Argentinians.

Of course all that may not be the intent of the author but if an at least somewhat neutral outsider (I'm a Canadian who hadn't ever turned 1 at the time of the war) can read that out of it it might present a problem. If the intent IS to be provocative, I'll stand by my statement that it seems like a bad idea, although the author does have every right to do so.