Ok, I'm looking now.
To be honest, back in the 80's when Grandpa Regan was in office, war scenarios were cool becasue it was like doing the real thing. Paintball reveled in the war image with fields like "Skirmish", "Sat Cong Village", and "War Games".
Now with the "sport" of paintball fighting for recognition, stuff like this is fodder for the media. At best, it's intresting. At worst, you have americans males, WHITE american males, pretending to be nazis, or VC, or some other kind of "enemy of the month club" member trying to "kill american soldiers".
Now for a moment, imagine 20/20 showing up to a scenario game and starting to question "German" soldiers. "Do you like killing americans?" "Do you like pretending to be a nazi?" All they need to find is ONE GUY in replical gear to say "Yeah." and you have a headliner.
I don't know about other countries, but the wounds from Vietnam are still fresh in a lot of minds here. When I see a bunper sticker that says Jane Fonda is a communist on a 99 Ford pickup truck, I know it's not healed. So when I see someone like Dollack make a scenario game based on events from the vietnam war, being played by kids (myself included) who have no clue what REALLY happened, it's blood money IMHO.
For some of you, TJ and kris, who say that it's harmelss fun I want you both to take a look at a few things. To just have an entertainment based on a war scenario is one thing. I can tolerate playing SC Village's "Germany", "Vietnam", "Beriut" and "Iraq" fields. But to recreate WAR is another. To even sell the game as a recreation of warfare is disrespectful to the men and women who died in the real battle.
Now if you said it was a war scenario, and every player hit would have to remain DEAD for the remainder of the game, you MIGHT get the same terror of the real thing. Hell some people might get off on that.
My kid does battle reenactments as part of rendezvous in the midwest. They love him because he dies so well. And when he dies, he STAYS DEAD. But what they are doing is recreating the battles so that people can learn a little of what happened. They can see how hard it was to actually shoot the rifles, get a decent shot in, how messy black powder shooting can look.
Scenario games are not reenactments. It's a cash cow for producers to hang their hats on to make money from the dead. I made a mistake going to a Vietnam scenario game, and left feeling disgusted at the scenario producer, the players, and the whole affair. I was expecting something diffrent, but the lack of control, and the lack of respect pretty much solidified my opinions.
And if you want more, I'll give it to you.
-Tyger
