IMO, when considering any AU, you have to consider the conflict.
You just knocked it out of the park-- no conflict, no story. No story, why am I reading (or writing) this thing?
Yes. These are war games. Not even small-scale turf wars, but massive devastating wars that change the future of entire continents. The stakes are as high as they can get-- sometimes, survival of sentient life is what's at stake. At least SOME of that has to be communicated in some fashion in fiction, or the retelling just doesn't make much sense.
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Date: 2011-09-29 08:44 pm (UTC)You just knocked it out of the park-- no conflict, no story. No story, why am I reading (or writing) this thing?
Yes. These are war games. Not even small-scale turf wars, but massive devastating wars that change the future of entire continents. The stakes are as high as they can get-- sometimes, survival of sentient life is what's at stake. At least SOME of that has to be communicated in some fashion in fiction, or the retelling just doesn't make much sense.