Fun fact! The concept of “hit points” were originally developed by military wargames, and were defined as the number of 14-inch shell hits a vessel could survive.
Every living creature has 1hp!
Source is BDG
Think the military would let me join just to play the strategy games?
I don’t want to do any fighting.
Yes. Lots of defense contractor rules running the simulation software and doing programming related to it. Actually playing the game is a different story, and would be mostly restricted to officers, former officers turned contractors, and the odd PhD civilian working for them.
Otherwise just get EUIV and go to town.
Point and click at enemies on the screen. Just don’t think about how they are actually alive.
That’s what I do in xcom
You could always just play wargames as a civilian
Go for Bolt Action if you’re not into sci-fi or fantasy. Bonus: the guys at the game store playing Bolt Action are almost universally grumpy old grognards
But… the only way to win at WarGames is to not play…
Why are we invading Mexico, if you want Tacos just go get some.
It’s actualy a map of East Asia. Red is China.
I can see that too but it looks like a Baja to the left curved land mass and a see to the right. I guess it’s just easier to see what is familiar.
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).
Player 4: … Alright guys, you left me no choice, I’m using my nukes … FLIPS OVER THE GAME TABLE
And that’s when all your friends start calling you Gandhi
Anyone interested in The Campaign for North Africa?
I remember reading about that … doesn’t the gameplay take hours or days to play through
Up to 1500 hours, or 62.5 days.
Or Hearts of Iron. Only additional people needed in the room are political advisors and economists to simulate those aspects of the war effort.
