I think Settlers is a bad game. I judge a game based on few points. Is it fun, can you on your own turn reliably do something to advance your own position, and is determining who will win not clear until the last round. Of course some skill based games like chess will still be a good game even if it faults on several of these factors.

Being player four in Catan, growing dice so others gets resources and passing your turn feels bad.

I do. Army Combat Engineer. Then master in physical chemistry. Working (not in the US) last 14 years with production, use (blasting) and storage. I am very interested in the conclusions after this accident.

That depends on country tbh. And the The strange/sad thing is that I have read the DoD manuals (not American, but the DoD enforces their standars and audits foreign suppliers) and they are pretty stringent.

It’s also bad strategy to have a supply chain that is weak to episodes like this.

Energetic materials is the common way to group explosives, pyrotechnics and propellants.

Anything that carries its own oxygen, is self sustained and reacts exothermic.