Kurt Vonnegut's life was not without its ironies. Fighting in World War II, that descendant of a long line of German immigrants in the United States found himself imprisoned in Dresden just when it was devastated by Allied firebombing.
  • Zachariah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    6 days ago

    GHQ is a fast-paced two-play­er bat­tle game in which each play­er maneu­vers mil­i­tary units — infantry, armored vehi­cles, artillery and an air­borne reg­i­ment — to cap­ture the oth­er player’s head­quar­ters.

    • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      6 days ago

      Definitely picking this up, I’m curious what he cooked up. I’m a fan of simple-but-deep strategy games and Vonnegut both, I’ll report back after a few games probably this evening.

  • distantsounds@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    6 days ago

    The 40 pages of notes amid Vonnegut’s papers include several revisions of its rules, but also pitch letters to board-game companies suggesting that *GHQ *could “become the third popular checkerboard game” — and even “be used to train cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.”

  • Troy@lemmy.caEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Vonnegut was such a character that I wouldn’t trust him to build a game that could be won. Anyway, sawing off my arm as a handicap now so I get equal odds against my alien buddy.