Wargame Suggestions
Kuma War's Truly Tasteless Toys
In reaction to 
Kumawar.com's war-profiteering, death-celebrating, and truly tasteless marketing.
Dear Sirs,
I've been enjoying your 'Kumawar' games with their strong sense of realism and historical accuracy. Jolly good show. This has led me to come up with a couple of new ideas for scenarios you might like to work up.
The first you might call 'LynchPin' and involves the capture and holding and then freeing of Jessica Lynch. The scene could begin with the player taking the part of Jessica Lynch travelling in the Humvee (no money to be lost having a sexy main character, I'll wager!) The vehicle would then crash into a tree (oops) and all those travelling in it would be killed except Private Lynch who would suffer some broken bones and be taken prisoner. You could then spend several days with her being treated better than all the Iraqi patients in a hospital, getting the cream of the medicines and treatment. Then player action would switch to the rescue in which US troops come in, overwhelm the massed forces of unarmed Iraqi doctors, medics and other staff who take up position hiding in a room. The player could act really cool by kicking down doors and so on. Then you could switch player action again to become a member of the Pentagon or the press selling this to the lower echelons of American society as a tale of heroic courage against the Iraqi boogeymen. I'll leave those details to you.
My second scenario would be set in Guatanamo Bay and would just involve keeping many hundreds of people in small cells and mocking their pleas for a fair trial (or any trial). If this seems like rather a dull scenario you could throw in some urinating on the Q'uran, setting dogs on prisoners and so on.
My third might also need some pepping up as so far it consists merely of the player sitting in a tank/battleship/bomber and killing over 100,000 civilians with heavy weaponry from a great distance. Perhaps it could be juiced up with sub-scenarios where the player takes on the roll of the government explaining why this isn't terrorism to an eager US public.
I hope some or all of these ideas might be of some interest to you.
All the best and congratulations on a job well done!
Phil Free
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