New: World Aflame II: Age of Anxiety (free, open-ended, email, www, human, historical, wargame, economic, rpg)

From: lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)

Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 19:13:19 +0000

Name:		World Aflame II: Age of Anxiety
Costs:		Free
URL:		http://www.geocities.com/world_aflame/
Frequency:		once a week
Email:		god@millersreach.org
Type:		Post-WWI Wargame
Last-Update:		2002Apr14
Keywords: free, open-ended, email, www, human, historical, wargame,
economic, rpg

Description:

Welcome to World Aflame II

Unlike the previous iteration of World Aflame, which primarily focused the
politics of war, in the era leading up to, and during, World War II, Age
of Anxiety looks to take a grander scope, engaging players in
international and domestic politics in the time just after the close of
the Great War, when the Allied Powers squabbled amongst themselves over
how to settle the armistice with Germany; when the Treaties of Versailles,
Trianon and Locano may yet be made or broken. This is an era where the
United States threatened war with Great Britain over dominance of the seas
and free trade, when the US, Great Britain, France and Japan all landed
forces in the remains of Imperial Russia to beat back the spectre of
Bolshevism. In the interwar era, newly born Poland launched a
nearly-successful war of aggression against their former imperial master,
Russia; and the Balkan states again waged political and actual war on each
other, to determine their new borders with the collapse and vivisection of
the former Ottoman Empire. In Berlin, a shattered Germany teeters between
democracy and communism; all the while the stage is set for a resurgance
of the Junkers class and it's Prussian militarism, under the guise of a
new movement in Munich. In Italy, a potential new military dictator
considers a push for power in a march on Rome.

In the Age of Anxiety, no alliance is safe; no nation's people quiet and
placid. The anticipated struggle between autocracy, democracy, communism
and facism is just beginning...

World Aflame II will commence play in January of 1922, with a
hand-picked batch of invitees. It will use a new system, remodeled twice
since the close of WAI, streamlined for ease of play, and with more
freedom in the hands of the players- as well as more risk. The details of
the previous game will be expanded on, as will the options for play.

Dare you lead a Great Power into this new, uncertain world? Shall you
take the mantle of leadership in a new nation-state, recently born into
the morass of European politics, and attempt to lead it to dominance? Will
you play the opposition party leader to another player, attempting to
subvert control, and lead the nation down your chosen path? Will
imperialism see a resurgence, or will a worker's revolution sweep the
world?

The possibilities are virtually endless. Attend now, aspiring
polititian, as the second chapter of the Twentieth Century is written
anew.

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