Yeah, you had far-back strategists all over the world use stuff to illustrate formations and how things were relative to other things. As far as we know, it was Prussian Johann Christian Ludwig Hellwig (hell of a name) who was the first to make it into a kind of game with set rules with the purpose of training army officers. This was iterate within Prussia with different kind of rules (e.g. dice or non-grid maps).
Wargaming originated from actual, well, wargaming by the military. The military still uses wargames to train their officers.
Yeah, you had far-back strategists all over the world use stuff to illustrate formations and how things were relative to other things. As far as we know, it was Prussian Johann Christian Ludwig Hellwig (hell of a name) who was the first to make it into a kind of game with set rules with the purpose of training army officers. This was iterate within Prussia with different kind of rules (e.g. dice or non-grid maps).