Posted on: March 3, 2025 Posted by: Richard Barbrook Comments: 0

Class Wargames launches its Coup d’État

Power Play in the Tropics “The active phase of a coup is like a military operation – only more so. If the general principle of tactics is the application of force at the right place, the coup achieves this with surgical precision by striking at the organisational heart of the whole state; if speed is often important in military operations, in the coup it is an essential requirement. But the…

Posted on: February 3, 2025 Posted by: Richard Barbrook Comments: 0

Class Wargames overthrows the Evil Empire

Fighting in the Wars of the Outer Worlds “Lucas isn’t exactly doing anything unprecedented — the Empire is basically a bunch of space Nazis, and Lucas parallels the Empire’s rise in the prequels with the Nazi Party’s rise in Germany. But for as stilted and affectless as the films can be, they’re tapped into something raw and real about how often seemingly stable societies collapse into fascism, into revolution, into…