Lestrades_Game

If there is a series for hex and counter hipsters at the moment it is Next War games by Mitch Land and Gene Billingsley. Kev Sharp's been blogging it 1 , 3MA have been talking about it 2 , these drunken reprobates have been playing it 3 , two of my friends have picked up Next War India Pakistan 4 , one of whom as his first hex and counter game. When I first saw the GMT Next War series with Next War Korea a few years back, I passed on it because it was pricey and I thought future wars were boring. I thought these things because I was a fool. I'm not entirely sure why the series has become popular, as speculative future wars seems like a hard sell but the continued releases (now three soon four) and the quality of the product seem to have carried it into the wargamer consciousness if not the popular. Initial Taiwanese deployment around Taichung, not as well defended as it first looked. Next War Taiwan depicts an invasion of Taiwan by mainland China sometime in the near fut...