Posted on: October 27, 2008 Posted by: Richard Barbrook Comments: 0

NOT JUST A GAME OF TOY SOLDIERS

1918 Battle of Kazan Scenario for Chris Peers’ Reds versus Reds Cyberfest ’08, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia, 27th November 2008. All toy soldiers, trees and buildings sculpted, modelled and painted by Mark Copplestone. This is not an attempt at realism: there is no attempt to deceive the eye, as in a model railway or museum diorama. This is a conscious design, representing in symbols (which in this case…

Posted on: October 23, 2007 Posted by: Richard Barbrook Comments: 0

Communiqué #1

CLASS WARGAMES PRESENTS GUY DEBORD’S THE GAME OF WAR Tuesday 23rd October 2007 at 6.00pm Class Wargames will play Guy Debord’s The Game of War using a replica of his original 1977 design for the board game. “Politics is a continuation of war by other means.” The Game of War is a Clausewitz simulator: a Napoleonic-era military strategy game where armies must maintain their communications structure to survive – and…