Chatter: National Security Insights from Board Games with Volko Ruhnke
The Lawfare Podcast
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The Importance of Accessibility in Chess
Hexes are only one way to represent the field of maneuver in war games. They do it slightly more realistically because they're the closest we can get in a grid to circles. But that is only necessary and is only the best solution. Time and space matters, how fast that horse rides or that tank drives matters but not as much as speed over terrain. In my game about the war on terror, labyrinth, it would be silly to use a hex map of the world. What's important is how many police are there in Huila province and how many gorillas are there of which factions? So we're just putting pieces into areas. And again, a hex map is not the
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