So someone wants to get people together to simulate the French Revolution. The game takes something like 30 people, and the better part of a day to play.
Here's my only question...why, if you were someone that enjoyed playing games of a complicated nature, involving strategy and even some role playing perhaps...even so...what would entice anyone (and the game creators are included in this) to settle on an all day French Revolution game? I mean, really? Really?
I could understand if you wanted to play a Sinn Fein game (I call Michael Collins!) or a Roman Republic game or a Trojan War, even a Pelloponesian War re-enactment, roleplay game--very cool. But the French Revolution?
Se la vie.
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Oh please. The French Revolution is quite interesting! The fact that it spawned the Scarlet Pimpernel alone speaks volumes of its inherent drama.
Besides, it's great for teaching the French Revolution. :)
First, the Scarlet Pimpernel IS awesome. We agree on that, hands down. But he was an Englishman being, well, English, in the face of distinctly French "liberty".
Second...they cut their king's head off. They birthed the greatest tyrant of the 19th century. Their freedom and brotherhood was marked by a reign of terror and blood covering the streets of the city of lights. They were seeds that a century later would be ripe for two world wars.
And, of course, the trump card of trump cards...it was all happening in France.
Not worth a day. Come on...you're telling me you'd pass on Sinn Fein or Roman Republic for Revolting France?
Following your criteria of spawning tyranny, I think it's laughable you'd even mention Rome, especially since I know you've read Tacitus.
As for Sinn Fein... I don't think an ongoing conflict, especially one that has spawned such brutality, is really worth simulating. While I enjoy studying Michael Collins, the man was a butcher and Sinn Fein (or as we should probably say, the IRB) was a terrorist organization at the time. As much as I yearn for a unified Ireland, I can't glorify a tragic history and have no wish to 'play' at it. :)
american conservatives like to bash france these last few years. i accuse people like bill o'reilly of just trying to get attention. while some criticism is appropriate, the degree to which it is carried out manifests prejudice, not reality.
imho, as always. :-)
my favorite pop quiz question is:
which is the only "major" european country we have never fought a war against?
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