[UA] Achetype: The Soldier (War)

[Frank Lohmann]

Chris Milne <khris at clara.net> wrote on 06.04.2001:

> IMUAC, the archetype of War has been through a number of 
> "incarnations" (for want of a better word), based on the individual 
> currently embodying it in the IC. 

[...snip explanations of previous aspects of the soldier...]

> At least, that's the way I explained "archetypal shift" to my 
> players. I think they understood.

Excellent! That's exactly how I explain these shifts to my players - with the 
exception that I add the Gulf War and subsequent "high tech"-conflicts (like the 
Kosovo war last year) as a failed attempt to change the archetype from "unknown 
soldier" to "deliverer of surgical strikes". As I remember the Gulf war, there'd 
been much CNN coverage of precision bombings that turned out to be not that 
precise after all... Maybe an Archetype vs. Godwalker - War?

My 2p...
	Frank
-- 
Frank Cord Lohmann           
GEOMAR - Forschungszentrum fuer marine Geowissenschaften 
Wischhofstr. 1-3   24148 Kiel   Germany 
Tel : +49 431 600 2334



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