The Political Struggle in Europe during the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648)

Description: The presentation has the aim to reflect with the wargame 'The Collapse' as an example, that the religious reason used as an excuse to start the conflict, turned into a political struggle that totally changed the geopolitical and balance of powers in Europe until 1648 with the Treaty of Westphalia. Thus, the need to reflect this political struggle or even turmoil within nations in Europe, should include the political differences between the two "great political blocks" as was the case of the catholics against the protestants in three dimensions that need to be balanced for a most effective game as regions control (political dimension), the need to use military units to defeat the enemy and their victory options (military dimension), and also the need to gain foreign support both financial and military from 9 nations included in the game (diplomatic dimension). And finally, the dilemma for factions to decide if ravaging a region when taking control of a city within armies in that period needed to feed with the resources from the regions they moved across.
BIO
My name is Daniel Hernández and I live in Sabadell, which is close to Barcelona in Spain. I have lived 7 years in Norway (Stavanger and Ås which is a city near to Oslo), where I studied a Master in International Hotel and Tourism Leadership and another in International Relations, besides working with several students’ organizations and cooperating for international students academic and cultural inclusion in the country. This work let me be in contact with the Norwegian government, universities and more than 30 embassies. Furthermore my higher education dissertations were about the European Union Tourism Policies and Afghanistan' stabilization.

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Thanks to Georgetown University Wargaming Group, and especially to Sebastian Bae and Nick Wernert for the invitation to hold the presentation and the great time spent. I am available to answer any question, and people can contact me anytime if they are interested to know more about the topic and my designs 'The Collapse' and 'The Spanish Road' including to join the playtest for 'The Collapse'. Thanks again and hopefully to present more times with you. Daniel Hernández Iniesta