Recreational wargaming information

only army in the world that practiced wargaming, so naturally many people credited Prussia's victory to its wargaming tradition. Armies around the world...

Wargaming is a mind sport. Modern wargaming was invented in Prussia in the early 19th-century, and eventually the Prussian military adopted wargaming...

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...

tabletop wargames, which range from military wargaming to recreational wargaming. Wargames appeared on computers as early as Empire in 1972. The wargaming community...

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...

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...

Tactical wargame Palmer, Nicholas (1980). "Chapter 3 - The First Thousand Hours are the Hardest: Monster Games". The Best of Board Wargaming. New York...

wargaming developed by the Prussian Army in the 19th century to teach battlefield tactics to officers. The word Kriegsspiel literally means "wargame"...

Air wargaming, like naval wargaming, is a niche specialism within the wider miniatures wargaming hobby. Due to the relatively short time over which aerial...

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...

Inc. is a game company that publishes wargames and strategic board games. It has also published miniature wargaming rules, role-playing games and sports...

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...

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...

Naval wargaming is a branch of the wider hobby of miniature wargaming. Generally less popular than wargames set on land, naval wargaming nevertheless enjoys...

organization of wargaming clubs and founded the Gen Con gaming convention. In 1971, he co-developed Chainmail, a miniatures wargame based on medieval...

Jackson Games: 30. Nicholas Palmer (1977), The Comprehensive Guide to Board Wargaming "Poker Deck". Flying Buffalo. Retrieved February 11, 2014. White Dwarf...

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...

accessed 16 November 2008 "Class Wargames: Ludic subversion in the bureaucratic society of controlled consumption | Class Wargames". Guy, Emmanuel (2012-09-15)...

List of wargame publishers is an index of commercial companies that publish wargames. 3W or World Wide Wargames – publishers of the wargaming magazine...

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...

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)...

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...

recreational wargaming scene. Target Games, the company that went on to publish Drakar och Demoner, was founded in 1980 to import and sell wargames....

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...

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...

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...