On the topic of "state is not the only way to organize people en masse but games often make us think so," I wonder would you mind writing something on Cole Wehrle's board games, which often have core mechanics based on historical insights about states. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamedesigner/35585/cole-wehrle …
In case you missed it, I was on the @3MA podcast! We talked about the ways that strategy games focus on states & how this can both be advantageous and disadvantageous both as a game-design constraint and for understanding history.
Check it out!
https://www.idlethumbs.net/3ma/episodes/the-state-with-bret-devereaux …https://twitter.com/3MA/status/1454056536838393864 …
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Cole Wehrle is a board game designer that (surprisingly) has a Humanities background. He mentioned that the asymmetrical faction designs in Root are originated from his frustrations that many games tend to have a very limited way to describe how states and peoples are organized.
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This made for an interesting listen and supplement to your blog posts. You deplored that CK2 doesn't include penalties for being at peace for too long, which I think is generally related to the absence of more ideological concerns around lordship and knightship in the game.
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With the Holy Fury DLC (I think), they added warrior lodges and there is now the option of reforming a Pagan faith with an emphasis on warfare (see picture), although this is unfortunately absent from Catholic playthroughs.pic.twitter.com/hHJ9XIV8vP
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I've tried to play Paradox games "tall" but it almost never works vs a good human opponent (and sometimes doesn't work vs AI depending on circumstances) so good job outlining that in your podcast.
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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Yoo King of Dragon Pass mention! Podcast was a great listen
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Fan of ACOUP, moving this up in the podcast queue.
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