Countries At War


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Countries At War games are a kind of games in which players take over a country on a real-world map and go to war. They usually tend to collapse under the sheer complexity of managing 200+ countries and territories.

Former Games
Phantom ran at least one CaW game, which collapsed quickly. His rules were used as the basis of Sheb's CaW. They were also refined in Emperor Jonathan's CaW game, and Barbarossa the Seal God's CaW game. There has also been another Countries At War game created by Tarran, set in the Middle Ages.

Current Games
Two games are currently running.

Sheb's "Countries @ War" is using an heavily edited set of Phantom's rules. He's also making up a lot of new rules as the game go by and generally let his players do whatever they want, while invoking Deus Ex Machine (Like the dreaded U.R.I.S.T.) to try to put up some challenge, without much success.

USEC_OFFICER is running a "Countries At War: Hyper Edition" that is like Sheb's game, except with actual working games mechanics. And Cyborg Fanatics driving Laser Tanks. Additionally, the rules were tweaked to add rock-paper-scissors tactics, which meant that having mixed armies of different units became more important.

Funnily enough, both Sheb and USEC_OFFICER are playing in each other's games, and both of them are the leading power. This is of course a coincidence and any rumours stating that they are protecting each other's interest would only be a bunch of lies.

Future of The Game
Phantom has annouced his intention to create a "Countries At War: Prelude", based around the revolutions in each other's countries that lead to the various Counties At War games.