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The Complete Book of Wargames reviews and describes only board wargames — thus ignoring the important part of the hobby devoted to miniatures —and fantasy role-playing games, which are not wargames in any traditional sense. Also, the hobby has been growing so quickly that much of the information is already out of date only a year after ...
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.
The first wargame was invented in Prussia in 1780 by Johann Christian Ludwig Hellwig, who was a college professor in Brunswick.Hellwing wanted to design a game by which he could teach some principles of warfare to his students, many of whom were noblemen destined for military service, but he also wanted his game to be fun and accessible to the general public so that he could sell it as a ...
A Kriegsspiel session in progress.. Kriegsspiel [a] is a genre of wargaming developed by the Prussian Army in the 19th century to teach battlefield tactics to officers. The word Kriegsspiel literally means "wargame" in German, but in the context of the English language it refers specifically to the wargames developed by the Prussian army in the 19th century.
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 ...
The Wargames Research Group (WRG) is a British publisher of rules and reference material for miniature wargaming.Founded in 1969 they were the premier publisher of tabletop rules during the seventies and eighties, publishing rules for periods ranging from ancient times to modern armoured warfare, and reference books which are still considered standard works for amateur researchers and wargamers.
The Tactical Wargamer website noted that the bibliographies "range in usefulness", and that there is "little discussion of tactical-level games." [5] In a summary about a workshop held by Military Operations Research Society to design "seminar wargames" (used by the military for planning strategies), Dunnigan's book was quoted extensively ...
War Games Rules 1950–2000: Wargames Rules for All Arms Land Warfare from Platoon to Battalion Level A computer-moderated adaptation of the 1988 edition was created by WargameSystems. [ 3 ] This is claimed to preserve the WRG rules structure and key data while the software automates the mechanics of playing by these rules, hence saving time ...