[BGB] Ultra-modern gaming

[petrilak]

For what its worth we might consider that historical gamers live for the what if. What if napoleon had moved around the right at Borodino, What if Hitler had released the panzers on D day plus one. Its the striving for alternate results, pitting ourshelves against history and those who shaped it, that capture our passions. The distance of time allows us to ignore the realities of the time. Who would want to fight rommels battles if the outcome were the survival of the third reich. Because it's over and done with we can sit in the turret of our tiger and not have to deal with Dachau.

Iraq is now, Afganistan is now, Kenya is now. The taliban are now, the horrors of tribal genocide are now. How can you seperate them if you mind works at a level above a carrot.

On another plane, it has been said that the truth about a war cannot be fully considered until all those who suffered loss in the war have passed on. I believe that is true. The historical work on the second world war if just starting to objectively bear fruit.

All that said I did enjoy breaking the americans as an iraqi during panzerinis desert storm game at historicon 06.
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