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Clearly someone needs to play JADO...

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With no context, how am I starting this week?

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GMT Games - The Guerrilla Generation

Interesting collection of perspectives. Curious, however, that given the topic you didn't talk about this: www.gmtgames.com/p-1032-the-g...

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The Guerrilla Generation

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ps1971mer @ps1971mer.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

U got to wonder whether the US war on Iran is a deliberate economic war against Europe

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Ah! You probably learnt the hard way what many have also learnt the hard way! You play Paco not to win, but to learn new ways of loosing 😂😂

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

The NYT style guide

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 28/02/2026

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ps1971mer @ps1971mer.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

I'll be trying this on Friday at our local convention!

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ps1971mer @ps1971mer.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Pace is slow, very different to others, very charming...

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ps1971mer @ps1971mer.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Very happy day 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

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PS2: I'd love it if in the Spanish wargaming community we could have this kind of discussions instead of suppressing for fear of what they could do to our community in a polarised context.

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PS: Ultimately, a more interesting game wouldn't focus on this "incident" at all. A truly bold simulation would focus on the Filipino Struggle for independence—managing a multi-front war against Spain and the US, state-building, and the logistics of a whole new nation.

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We should play wargames for the tragedy and the systems, not the hagiography. Héroes de Baler has the mechanics for a great story about institutional failure and human stubbornness. It’s a shame the marketing tries to hide that under a layer of banal nationalism. 🎲🇪🇸🇵🇭 #Wargaming #Baler1898 11/11

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On June 30, 1899, Filipino President Emilio Aguinaldo didn't treat the survivors as losers. He issued a decree calling them "friends". He was building a modern, civil Republic. The "rebels" were often more "civilized" in their chivalry than the Spanish command was 10/n

To "dismount" this nationalism, we have to look at the "Other." The nationalist myth needs a faceless, barbaric enemy. But history—and even the game’s background context—mentions the Aguinaldo Decree. 9/n

The commander, Martín Cerezo, is praised for "duty." But the rules show a man in denial. He ignored official newspapers and his own government’s emissaries. In any other wargame, we’d call this "Disobedience" or "Loss of Command Control." Here, it's sold as "Spirit." 8/n

Marketing: "The Last Ones of the Philippines." Rules: The Territorial Map. While you're "heroically" trapped in a church, the Filipino player is winning the actual war. The game shows that Baler was strategically irrelevant—a tactical stalemate in the middle of a total imperial collapse. 7/n

Marketing: "Mystical feat of resistance." Rules: The biggest killer in the game isn't the enemy; it's the Wear phase. If the infirmary is full, new sick soldiers "push" the old ones into the Cemetery. The game simulates a supply-chain disaster and logistical abandonment, not "glory." 6/n

Marketing: "The honor does not surrender." Rules: Desertion. Under Rule 11.1.2, if morale drops, your "heroes" defect to the Filipino side. The game admits the "spirit" was a fragile thing held together by officers who wouldn't let their men leave. 5/n

But here’s the irony: the game’s own rulebook—the actual simulation—is a brutal deconstruction of that very myth. 4/n

The marketing for Baler is a masterclass in Banal Nationalism. It uses words like "honor," "gesta mística" (mystical feat), and "eternal spirit." It sells a myth largely constructed in the 1940s to provide a model of "sacrifice" for a struggling regime. 3/n

NAC has a history of "questionable" marketing. From the crusader-heavy imagery of La Carga de los 3 Reyes 2 the imperial nostalgia of Héroes de Baler, their brand often feels designed to appeal 2 a specific, "patriotic" sentiment, currently resurging in Spanish politics (& yes the iron cross) 2/n