only army in the world that practiced wargaming, so naturally many people credited Prussia's victory to its wargaming tradition. Armies around the world...
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Wargaming is a mind sport. Modern wargaming was invented in Prussia in the early 19th-century, and eventually the Prussian military adopted wargaming...
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of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Wargaming Handbook (MoD 2017), p. 21 Perla (1990), The Art of Wargaming: "A real wargame must have human players whose decisions...
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tabletop wargames, which range from military wargaming to recreational wargaming. Wargames appeared on computers as early as Empire in 1972. The wargaming community...
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Miniature wargaming is a form of wargaming in which military units are represented by miniature physical models on a model battlefield. The use of physical...
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Kriegsspiel (redirect from Kriegspiel (wargame))
wargaming developed by the Prussian Army in the 19th century to teach battlefield tactics to officers. The word Kriegsspiel literally means "wargame"...
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Monster game (redirect from Monster wargame)
Tactical wargame Palmer, Nicholas (1980). "Chapter 3 - The First Thousand Hours are the Hardest: Monster Games". The Best of Board Wargaming. New York...
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A grand strategy wargame or simply grand strategy game (GSG) is a wargame that places focus on grand strategy: military strategy at the level of movement...
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Air wargaming, like naval wargaming, is a niche specialism within the wider miniatures wargaming hobby. Due to the relatively short time over which aerial...
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Gary Grigsby is a designer and programmer of computer wargames. In 1997, he was described as "one of the founding fathers of strategy war games for the...
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Miniature wargames are a form of wargaming designed to incorporate miniatures or figurines into play, which was invented at the beginning of the 19th century...
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Avalon Hill (category Wargame companies)
Inc. is a game company that publishes wargames and strategic board games. It has also published miniature wargaming rules, role-playing games and sports...
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Gary Gygax (category Wargame designers)
organization of wargaming clubs and founded the Gen Con gaming convention. In 1971, he co-developed Chainmail, a miniatures wargame based on medieval...
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popularity of wargaming in the early 1970s. [citation needed] The market grew at a fast pace, and if anything the number of wargaming companies grew...
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Lou Zocchi (category Wargame designers)
Jackson Games: 30. Nicholas Palmer (1977), The Comprehensive Guide to Board Wargaming "Poker Deck". Flying Buffalo. Retrieved February 11, 2014. White Dwarf...
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List of wargame publishers is an index of commercial companies that publish wargames. 3W or World Wide Wargames – publishers of the wargaming magazine...
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Naval wargaming is a branch of the wider hobby of miniature wargaming. Generally less popular than wargames set on land, naval wargaming nevertheless enjoys...
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A Game of War (category Wargames introduced in the 1980s)
accessed 16 November 2008 "Class Wargames: Ludic subversion in the bureaucratic society of controlled consumption | Class Wargames". Guy, Emmanuel (2012-09-15)...
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wargaming was initially focused on historical subjects, other subjects also emerged. In the late 1960s, linguist M. A. R. Barker began to use wargame-like...
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This is a list of board wargames by historical genre (and some subgenres) showing their publication history. All games can be presumed to have been published...
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units being simulated are directly quantifiable. Modern commercial board wargaming stayed away from man-to-man subjects for many years, though once the initial...
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recreational wargaming scene. Target Games, the company that went on to publish Drakar och Demoner, was founded in 1980 to import and sell wargames....
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Paddy Griffith (section Wargames)
field of War Studies. He was also a wargame designer for the UK Ministry of Defence, and a leading figure in the wargaming community. Griffith was a freelance...
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Jim Dunnigan (category Wargame designers)
graduating with a degree in history in 1970. In college he became involved in wargaming. He designed Jutland, which Avalon Hill published in 1967, following it...
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or Scenario Analysis Wargaming in the Department of Defense — U.S. Army Command and General Staff College Common Core: Wargaming in the Joint Planning...
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Richard Berg (category Wargame designers)
Waterloo by GMT Games 1995 – Best Amateur Wargaming Magazine : Berg's Review of Games (BROG) 1996 – Best Amateur Wargaming Magazine : Berg's Review of Games (BROG)...
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The genesis of tactical board wargaming goes back to 1969. Up until that time, wargaming—which in the modern, recreational form only dated back to 1958—tended...
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Charles S. Roberts (category Wargame designers)
Baltimore, Maryland) was a wargame designer, railroad historian, and businessman. He is renowned as "The Father of Board Wargaming", having created the first...
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Charles Grant (game designer) (category Miniature wargames)
modellers) 1975 Battle: Practical Wargaming, Charles Grant, Model and Allied Publications, 1970. Napoleonic Wargaming, Charles Grant, Model and Allied...
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The International Federation of Wargaming (IFW) was a wargaming club operated from 1967 to early 1970s. Founded by Bill Speer, Gary Gygax, and Scott Duncan...
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