Chatter: National Security Insights from Board Games with Volko Ruhnke
The Lawfare Podcast
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The Importance of Agency in War Games
The cards, the way you've just described them are used to kind of round out the actual core gameplay. But I recently played a game where there were hundreds of cards available, but each team got to select only a few from probably the hundred cards available. And yet I'd have to do a count, but I'm guessing well over 95% of the cards weren't used in the game because you just simply didn't have the points to have that many things. So for simulation, and in either case, by the way, the difference here is agency, player agency, right? There's a deck of cards. There's all kinds of things in them. You mentioned snakes and l
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