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Circle Trigon
Sep. 1st, 2007 04:32 pmFollow on to this post, I'm delving into the earliest available documentation on the U.S. Army's Aggressor program. The idea was to have a perpetual fictitious "enemy" for forces to train against in peacetime maneuvers; the first exercises involving the Aggressors came soon after WW2.
The fiction went that Western Europe (except for Great Britain, Portugal and parts of Italy and some Mediterranean islands) fell under the control of the multinational movement known as the Circle Trigon Party. Every so often an Aggressor Army Group would invade the U.S. and the Allies would respond. This was "gaming" on one of the largest scales imaginable...whole divisions of soldiers playing "cowboys & indians". Strangely enough, I'm seeing a little of the G.I. JOE/ACTION FORCE Cobras and Red Shadows in the Aggressors...not that the notion should surprise anybody.
The point of me getting into this stuff is so that I can devise Flames of War unit archetypes for the Aggressors.
More to come.
FP
The fiction went that Western Europe (except for Great Britain, Portugal and parts of Italy and some Mediterranean islands) fell under the control of the multinational movement known as the Circle Trigon Party. Every so often an Aggressor Army Group would invade the U.S. and the Allies would respond. This was "gaming" on one of the largest scales imaginable...whole divisions of soldiers playing "cowboys & indians". Strangely enough, I'm seeing a little of the G.I. JOE/ACTION FORCE Cobras and Red Shadows in the Aggressors...not that the notion should surprise anybody.
The point of me getting into this stuff is so that I can devise Flames of War unit archetypes for the Aggressors.
More to come.
FP
