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The most successful card wargame (as a card game and as a wargame) would almost certainly be Up Front, a card game about tactical combat in World War II published by Avalon Hill in 1983. The abstractness is harnessed in the game by having the deck produce random terrain, and chances to fire, and the like, simulating uncertainty as to the local ...
Space Battle (play-by-mail game) Space Combat (play-by-mail game) Spiral Arm (game) Star Wars: X-Wing Miniatures Game; Starlord (play-by-mail game) Starship Command (play-by-mail game) State of War (play-by-mail game) Strategic Conflict; Strategic Imperial Conquest; Supernova II
Computer wargames derived from tabletop wargames, which range from military wargaming to recreational wargaming.Wargames appeared on computers as early as Empire in 1972. . The wargaming community saw the possibilities of computer gaming early and made attempts to break into the market, notably Avalon Hill's Microcomputer Games line, which began in 1980 and covered a variety of topics ...
A video game, WarGames, was released for the ColecoVision in 1983 and ported to the Atari 8-bit computers and Commodore 64 in 1984. It played similarly to the NORAD side of the "Global Thermonuclear War" game, where the United States had to be defended from a Soviet strike by placing bases and weapons at strategic points.
War Game is a 2024 American documentary thriller film directed by Jesse Moss and Tony Gerber.It is about American officials simulating a coup after a disputed election. The film premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival and was released in New York on August 2, 2024.
Battle for Normandy (video game) The Battle for Wesnoth; Battle Group (video game) Battle Isle (video game) Battle Isle 2200; Battle Isle 2220; Battle of Antietam (video game) Battle of Britain (1999 video game) The Battle of Chickamauga (video game) The Battle of Shiloh (video game) Battle of the Atlantic: The Ocean Lifeline; Battle of the ...
Between 1962 and 1967, the US military [b] conducted a series of strategic-level wargames known as the Sigma war games to test proposed strategies for fighting the Vietnam War. The Sigma I-64 and II-64 games, conducted in 1964, were designed to test the proposed strategy of gradually escalating pressure on North Vietnam until it gave up out of ...
In Issue 23 of Moves (Oct-Nov 1975), Richard Berg commented, "Of more than usual interest is Maplay's Guerrilla, another game published in England.A tactical-level game that seems to be more operational than anything, this simulation of the guerrilla warfare in Indonesia in the '60's is a great deal of fun with its surprise attacks, helicopters and canoes and unknown victory conditions."