but they eventually caught on in civilian circles, played recreationally. The first wargame was invented in Prussia in 1780 by Johann Christian Ludwig... 23 KB (3,266 words) - 02:28, 10 March 2024 |
Wargaming is a mind sport. Modern wargaming was invented in Prussia in the early 19th-century, and eventually the Prussian military adopted wargaming... 82 KB (11,398 words) - 19:56, 12 May 2024 |
Monster game (redirect from Monster wargame) Comprehensive Guide to Board Wargaming. London: Sphere Books. the Staff of Strategy & Tactics Magazine (1977). Wargame Design: The History, Production... 5 KB (274 words) - 15:04, 3 May 2024 |
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... 5 KB (500 words) - 21:01, 2 May 2024 |
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"... 43 KB (5,958 words) - 21:04, 26 February 2024 |
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... 26 KB (3,223 words) - 19:35, 29 October 2023 |
Air wargaming, like naval wargaming, is a niche specialism within the wider miniatures wargaming hobby. Due to the relatively short time over which aerial... 8 KB (871 words) - 23:49, 4 April 2024 |
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... 7 KB (546 words) - 21:00, 15 December 2023 |
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... 28 KB (2,864 words) - 20:41, 28 February 2024 |
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... 8 KB (925 words) - 19:23, 7 May 2024 |
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... 84 KB (10,390 words) - 16:09, 7 May 2024 |
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... 3 KB (299 words) - 13:23, 29 July 2023 |
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)... 5 KB (621 words) - 20:25, 24 January 2024 |
List of wargame publishers is an index of commercial companies that publish wargames. 3W or World Wide Wargames – publishers of the wargaming magazine... 12 KB (1,406 words) - 15:51, 12 March 2024 |
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... 8 KB (832 words) - 17:39, 20 November 2023 |
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)... 18 KB (1,867 words) - 17:55, 7 May 2024 |
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... 2 KB (291 words) - 04:56, 10 March 2024 |
recreational wargaming scene. Target Games, the company that went on to publish Drakar och Demoner, was founded in 1980 to import and sell wargames.... 14 KB (1,508 words) - 11:35, 17 March 2024 |
or Scenario Analysis Wargaming in the Department of Defense — U.S. Army Command and General Staff College Common Core: Wargaming in the Joint Planning... 67 KB (4,205 words) - 13:54, 14 May 2024 |
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... 10 KB (931 words) - 16:28, 7 May 2024 |
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... 17 KB (1,616 words) - 17:54, 7 May 2024 |
Frank Chadwick (category Wargame designers) Club at Illinois State University with Rich Banner. The club focused on wargaming, but the students also began designing games as a fun activity and were... 11 KB (1,132 words) - 16:29, 7 May 2024 |