{"id":712636,"date":"2026-01-22T08:17:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T08:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/712636\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T08:17:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T08:17:14","slug":"the-troubles-shadow-war-in-northern-ireland-by-compass-games-board-game-that-allowed-players-to-play-as-the-ira-or-the-ruc-slammed-by-victims-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/712636\/","title":{"rendered":"The Troubles: Shadow War in Northern Ireland by Compass Games: Board game that allowed players to play as \u2018the IRA\u2019 or \u2018the RUC\u2019 slammed by victims group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Director of victims support group condemns Troubles themed board game\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/cf8b5be3-5ecb-4458-9279-dd3ca1d1bacb.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Director of victims support group condemns Troubles themed board game<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A Troubles-themed board game which features cards focused around bombings, allows users to play as terrorists and references \u201cStakeknife\u201d has been slammed for \u201cminimising\u201d victims\u2019 suffering.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The game \u2014 The Troubles: Shadow War in Northern Ireland \u2014 allows players to play as \u2018the British Forces\u2019, \u2018the RUC\u2019, \u2018the IRA\u2019, \u2018the Loyalist Paramilitaries\u2019 and nationalist or unionist politicians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Director of victims support group condemns Troubles themed board game A Troubles-themed board game which features cards focused&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1611,1144,6568,16,15,659],"class_list":["post-712636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-northern-ireland","tag-jessica-rice","tag-northern-ireland","tag-the-troubles","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115937768027699709","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}