I had two friends independently send me the details about that -- perhaps hoping that I might be the one to stupidly squander an obscene amount of money for that experience (so they could play it without having to pay for it). Fortunately, I'm not sold on it, certainly not for that amount, that there aren't better commercially produced games that are similar enough and are just better games, the Next War series being an example of one facet of modern geopolitics that a game/line of games covers in painstaking detail and are still great, exciting games, I'm sure there are others that are just plain more fun and yet still are good simulations for other aspects of the modern world.
That said, at a lower price point, I confess, I'd be all over it.
I'm curious why you say that about Junta. I admit, I've not played it -- it's been on my radar but just haven't had the chance at a convention or anything (perhaps I should've gone to the one this weekend, but didn't get a ticket before it sold out
) but I had been under the impression from my brief glance that it wasn't the weightiest of games, indeed BGG only rates it at a 2.86. What makes it so complex?
I'd say a lot of the wargames that are out there are as complicated, if not more than 1E. Even the 'simpler' ones like your Here I Stands and your Virgin Queens are pretty close to it, I'd say.
I don't know, in thinking about it, maybe I've just been playing this damned game so long that I've lost perspective, but it sure seems like I have a much harder time grokking something like Triumph of Chaos or Rise of the Roman Republic (or most Berg games, let's be honest) much less Europa Universalis or Grand Siecle than I do 1E.
But as I imagine others have more likely played complex sci-fi games, I'm curious how anyone else who's played it would compare 1E's complexity to something like High Frontier.
I don't know, I really love these sorts of games, and having gone from 1E to monster wargamer and more recently back to dabbling in 1E, I imagine that that's why I'm sometimes at odds with what direction others want to see 1E go. More complexity and depth and insanity, please!