lean dock
Cause that's not a controversial way to start a conversation...
A user on BGForums ask about our decision in the 2023 map to not have Kurdistan playable, since SRU 2021 did include it.
https://www.bgforums.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=205343#p205343
Do you think it should be independent? Or just a loyalty region as it is now?
I decided to punch some questions into ChatGPT and see what it said. Here are my prompts and the responses (not sure how well it will format, but here we go)
echo plaza
What’s the scope? Do you mean the entire area inhabited by majority Kurds?
IMO 2023 Kurdistan should be a loyalty region spanning a selection of contiguous hexes that are predominantly inhabited by the Kurdish ethnic group, lying within several national borders.
Iraqi Kurdistan (KRI) should be a dependent region of Iraq, with its own military forces in reserve to represent local militia and security forces that are not formally a part of Iraq’s national military.
The autonomous breakaway government in Syria’s Rojava should be represented as an independent region. If it’s 2023, you can call them “Self-Administration of North and East Syria” or as BG did in an earlier scenario, just simply, Rojava.
lean dock
Simplest would likely be to assign it the same area as in the SRU 2021 map.
echo plaza
Simplest would likely be to assign it the same area as in the SRU 2021 map.
How feasible would it be to represent these political entities separately? And separately, could they be added while also keeping the Kurdish loyalty zone contiguous and not divided by regional zones (Iraqi-, Syrian-, Iranian-, Turkish-Kurds)?
That approach would provide the most accurate picture of the region, whereas presenting them as a single monolithic entity would invite further debate.
Kurds in Iraq participate in Iraqi federal elections. Further, there are disagreements between the KRI and Rojava political factions.
lean dock
That's widening the topic. I want to keep it to one region at a time. It will take work to do each one, and I'm the only one available to do it, so there's no point enlarging the scope of the task. I want to consider Kurdistan first.
echo plaza
I think I understand now. If the discussion is just about Iraqi Kurds, then it should be a dependent (colony) region of Iraq.
lean dock