playing war

ichso · 06-07-07, 01:18 PM

Thing is: what kind of knowledge do you mean, that you have learned at this board and while playing SH ?
The only things a war sim simulates are the tactics, strategies, technologies and such. So simply everything related to warfare itself but that has not very much to do with history. You can learn something about the course of the war, who went there when, who attacked whom when, when came this and that machinery up. But that is nothing which can help prevent such wars in the future, nothing to learn what mistakes must have been made so it could start in the first place.
Most things you can learn from a game like SH is for interest, I know it isn't about history education though

In the end it is still making something fun and adventurous (or whatever this is spelled) of something very cruel out of the past, whether one has this in mind or not.
People who have been concerned more directly by the horrors of war, should think a lot different about all that.

06-07-07, 01:18 PM	#6
ichso Ace of the Deep Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Germany's oldest city alive Posts: 1,066 Downloads: 57 Uploads: 0	Thing is: what kind of knowledge do you mean, that you have learned at this board and while playing SH ? The only things a war sim simulates are the tactics, strategies, technologies and such. So simply everything related to warfare itself but that has not very much to do with history. You can learn something about the course of the war, who went there when, who attacked whom when, when came this and that machinery up. But that is nothing which can help prevent such wars in the future, nothing to learn what mistakes must have been made so it could start in the first place. Most things you can learn from a game like SH is for interest, I know it isn't about history education though In the end it is still making something fun and adventurous (or whatever this is spelled) of something very cruel out of the past, whether one has this in mind or not. People who have been concerned more directly by the horrors of war, should think a lot different about all that.