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Wargaming was founded by Victor Kislyi in Minsk on 2 August 1998, [3] intending the company as a developer of strategy video games. [4] The company's first project was DBA Online—the digital version of a miniature tabletop rule set De Bellis Antiquitatis—launched in 2000.
SDC had published the Vietnam wargame Battle for Hue in 1973, and returned to the same theme later that year with Dien Bien Phu, designed by Dana Lombardy based on an original game idea by Guy R. Hail. [2] It was published as a free pull-out game in Issue 6 of SDC's house magazine Conflict, [2] and was also released as a ziplock bag game.
Each turn is 24 hours. [2] The game comes with a series of chronologically linked scenarios that cover each phase of the battle. [3] Although each separate scenario is only 5–7 turns, reviewer Brian Laidlaw noted that each one still takes 12–14 hours to complete. [2]
The Viet Minh launched a massed assault against the exhausted defenders on the night of 1 May, overrunning Eliane 1, Dominique 3, and Huguette 5, although the French managed to beat back attacks on Eliane 2. On 6 May, the Viet Minh launched another massed attack against Eliane 2, using, for the first time, Katyusha rockets. [58]
The following year, the important Battle of Điện Biên Phủ was fought between the Việt Minh (led by General Võ Nguyên Giáp), and the French Union (led by General Henri Navarre, successor to General Raoul Salan). The siege of the French garrison lasted fifty-seven days, from 17:30, 13 March to 17:30, 7 May 1954.
A wargame is a strategy game in which two or more players command opposing armed forces in a simulation of an armed conflict. [1] Wargaming may be played for recreation, to train military officers in the art of strategic thinking, or to study the nature of potential conflicts.
Đại Việt: 1407 CE 1413 CE 6 years Imperial [v] Trần: Giản Định Đế: Trùng Quang Đế Primitive Lê dynasty [z] Lê sơ triều / Nhà Lê sơ / Đại Việt: 1428 CE 1527 CE 99 years Imperial [v] Lê: Lê Thái Tổ: Lê Cung Hoàng Mạc dynasty [aa] Mạc triều / Nhà Mạc / Đại Việt: 1527 CE 1677 CE 150 years ...
A wargame, generally, is a type of strategy game which realistically simulates warfare.A professional wargame, specifically, is a wargame that is used by military organizations to train officers in tactical and strategic decision-making, to test new tactics and strategies, or to predict trends in future conflicts.