"This is a game about war and the people who endure it. We're going to sit down together and create two nations that go to war. A war which may continue for years. But, as players, we won't control the events of the war. Instead, we will consult the oracle of war— the WARACLE —to find out what happens. Every season, battles will be fought, there will be victories and defeats, but we won't decide any of it: the rules will. Instead, our job will be to explore the people living through the events the WARACLE dictates. Soldiers, civilians, every single person caught up in a war which they, like us, do not control. To bring them to life and try to understand them. What kind of people we make and what kind of stories we tell is up to each of us, unless the WARACLE tells us the war reaches into their lives…" https://arsludi.lamemage.com/index.php/5108/this-means-war-is-ready-to-play/