These one-vs-one games are more suited to the 'Duel of the Sea' sort of style games, where its the readers voting on decisions, much like your current game Franc.
Just a small idea, though I believe it could work well - having a game set in some Cold War battlefield, say Korea or Afghanistan, and then have four to six players representing the United States, USSR, UK and perhaps the Eastern Bloc. The game operates as a normal game in this respect with decisions presented each chapter from where this chapter would lay out everything which happened over a set of months.
Where it diverges from a normal sort of game is that we have another four or five players all playing as the United Nations. So as the major superpowers all make their decisions and backstab and kill, they are supervised or watched closely by the UN who pass edicts and acts (Such as embargoes,isolation or even posting a peacekeeping force) but these acts may only be voted on by the six players who signed up as the UN?
Simply - a normal game with a overhead group of players representing UN/world opinion and acting as a governing body? It could be an exciting game where the superpowers plot against each other and manipulate the smaller powers, while the UN players are constantly working to prevent war from breaking out and keeping the war 'Cold'.
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