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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
The War Game, a film by Mai Zetterling; The War Game, a 1965 BBC television film; The War Games, a 1969 Doctor Who serial; WarGames, a 1983 film by John Badham starring Matthew Broderick #WarGames, a 2018 interactive film adaptation; WarGames: The Dead Code; War Game, an animated short film based on the 1993 children's novel
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.
Military simulations, also known informally as war games, are simulations in which theories of warfare can be tested and refined without the need for actual hostilities. . Military simulations are seen as a useful way to develop tactical, strategical and doctrinal solutions, but critics argue that the conclusions drawn from such models are inherently flawed, due to the approximate nature of ...
War Game is a 2002 animated short film made by the British animation company Illuminated Films, and based on the Michael Foreman novel of the same name. The film included many of the same scenes listed in the book, although four new characters were created. It features the voices of Adam Godley, Colin McFarlane, and Kate Winslet.
In his game, each toy soldier was used to represent an entire unit rather than an individual, and his playing field was just a chalk map drawn on the floor. In 1898, the British writer Fred T. Jane published the first rulebook for a naval wargame: Rules for the Jane Naval War Game. Jane's wargame was also the first published wargame to use ...
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 ...