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In the News (Sun 29 Nov 09)

  
  Marine Corps Wargaming - Page 1
The wargaming conducted by the Marine Corp in the 1930s laid the foundation of the amphibious doctrine used in World War II and is still cited as a classic use of wargames to win wars.
This is because wargaming in the modern Marine Corps suffers from both misused capabilities and unused potentials.
The unused potential is the widespread availability of wargames and the ability of battalions, companies, and squads to use them for their own training.
www.military.com /NewContent/0,13190,MCGazette_Wargaming_092304-P1,00.html   (1105 words)

  
  Wargaming section
My wargaming is heavily concentrated on the Ancient and Medieval period using the DBM rules.
In the old days when the Society of Ancients had a thriving wargames competition it was common to find an analysis of how different armies had performed during the last year in the competition.
As a wargamer, that rapidly translated into the raising of an Aztec army.
www.pearsonag.freeserve.co.uk /wargame.htm   (631 words)

  
  Wargaming @ Games can involve players acting cooperatively
Wargaming is the play of simulated military operations in the form of games known as war games.
Wargames, like all games, exist in a range of complexities: some are fundamentally simple (so-called "beer-and-pretzel" games), while others (generally in an attempt to increase the 'realism' of the situation) produce rule sets that may encompass a large variety of actions (so-called "monster" games).
These first wargames were played with dice which represented "friction", or the intrusion of less than ideal circumstances during a real war (including morale, meteorology, the fog of war, etc).
gcipac.250free.com /wargaming.html   (2292 words)

  
 PARAMETERS, US Army War College Quarterly - Autumn 1999
All too often the outputs of wargames have been limited to their training value, or have been skewed because the players were allowed to take the future where they wanted it to go.
Wargaming is an established and time-honored mechanism through which proposed defense concepts, doctrine, and tactics are explored, and there is a rich literature that describes its uses and applications.[4] An attempt to develop a typology of wargaming would be quite complicated, however, and that is not our purpose here.
Wargames have also been used, not always satisfactorily, to test the adequacy of current or planned forces in projected or official scenarios, such as those offered in support of the BUR and the QDR.
carlisle-www.army.mil /usawc/Parameters/99autumn/haffa.htm   (4448 words)

  
 Wargaming
Wargamers collect model armies, paint them and then battle them against other players in either one off games or extended campaigns.
There are many different types of wargame ranging in genre from fantasy, historic, modern day and science fiction.
Wargaming is an entire hobby of model making, painting and playing.
www.angelfire.com /ego/rooster/wargaming.htm   (374 words)

  
 Wargaming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wargaming is the hobby dedicated to the play of simulated military operations in the form of games known as wargames (sometimes also called conflict simulations).
Wargames, like all games, exist in a range of complexities: some are fundamentally simple (so-called "beer-and-pretzel" games), while others (generally in an attempt to increase the 'realism' of the situation) produce rulebooks that may encompass a large variety of actions and/or minutiae.
These first wargames were played with dice which represented "friction", or the intrusion of less than ideal circumstances during a real war (including morale, weather, the fog of war, etc.), though this was usually replaced by an umpire who used his own combat experience to determine the results.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wargaming   (5480 words)

  
 Miniature wargaming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bavarian Napoleonic Infantry, 1811, from the historical wargame Volley and Bayonet.
Miniature wargaming is a form of wargaming designed to incorporate miniatures or figurines into play, which was invented at the beginning of the 19th century in Prussia.
Wargame Developments (WD) was founded by game designer and author Paddy Griffith in 1980, and is an international group dedicated to developing all types of wargames.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Miniature_wargaming   (2549 words)

  
 DST/WARGAMING (Defense)
WARGAMING: Wargaming is a conscious attempt to visualize the flow of a battle, given friendly strengths and dispositions, enemy assets, and possible courses of action, and a set piece of ground.
WARGAME AGAINST OTHER ENEMY COAs: A friendly course of action may have been created to defeat a specific enemy course of action, but in order for us to select a course of action to turn into an order it should be capable of defeating all probable enemy courses of action.
The simplest way to do this is to retain the DST we used for the first wargame and record the results of the second wargame in a different color: say fl for the first wargame and blue or red for the second and third.
www.fas.org /irp/doddir/army/miobc/dstwgmlp.htm   (4249 words)

  
 A Short History of Wargaming
Nevertheless, the history of military wargames is such that most failures seem to occur when the results of a wargame are ignored, not when they are taken seriously.
And with that being said, it now time to look at another type of wargaming, one whose original concept was not to train for successful conflict, but to prevent such bloodshed from ever happing at all.
Total paper and counter wargame sales thus reached a high of some two million copies in 1980, but by 1991 that number was down to about 450,000 units per year.
www.nhmgs.org /articles/historyofwargaming.html   (4035 words)

  
 History of Wargaming
Nevertheless, the history of military wargames is such that most failures seem to occur when the results of a wargame are ignored, not when they are taken seriously.
Historical miniature wargaming is the recreation of historical battles (the Tactical level of war) through the use of a 3D terrain table over which are deployed model forests, roads, rivers and buildings as well as miniature soldiers and vehicles depicting the actual participants of the engagement.
Miniature wargaming is definitely not a lazy person's hobby, and one of the reasons is the necessity of doing one's own historical research in order to participate.
www.hmgs.org /history.htm   (7048 words)

  
 Wargaming
Wargaming comes in a number of shapes and forms.
In their peculiar vocabulary, wargaming is called "the Games Workshop Hobby".
To read more about all the hilarious and ridiculous side-effect of GW marketing and game development process, which may be quite cryptic for someone not involved, have a look at the Rant section.
www.stephane.info /show.php?code=wargaming   (290 words)

  
 NIGHT OWL MK. II -- Wargaming
Combine this with an interest in military history and wargaming is a natural.
BROG is published by Richard H. Berg, one of the wargaming's top designers and Hall-of-Famers, and is a must-read for anybody who wants the down-to-earth details before buying new games.
he hobby of wargaming is currently having to battle for players with the emerging 500-pound gorilla of the collectable card game market.
www.bakkster.com /wargame.htm   (673 words)

  
 Wargaming
It was the least that any wargamer could do to thank Curt Schilling for his role as a partner in Multi-Man Publishing, which rescued Advanced Squad Leader and other "hard core" Avalon Hill titles from the maw of Hasbro.
Publishing a periodical devoted to wargaming is a hazardous enterprise, and many casualties litter the field, including such once renowned titles as The Avalon Hill General, The Wargamer, Command, MOVES, Jagdpather, Panzerfaust/Campaign, Gamefix and The Space Gamer, to single out only a few.
Simulacrum, "the quarterly journal of board wargame collecting and accumulating", is devoted to publishing reviews and other information about out-of-print, often all-but-unknown, wargame titles.
stromata.tripod.com /id21.htm   (2668 words)

  
 Wargaming
Larry Irons has been a wargamer since he was ten years old.
He is a member (since 1979) and current President of Colorado Military Historians (CMH), an organization that has been in existence since 1965.
Larry has been playing Carnage and Glory which is an excellent way to meld wargaming and computers.
www.irons-assoc.com /larry/wargaming.html   (800 words)

  
 WARGAMING/Wargaming   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The goal of this report is to help wargame designers, players, and analysts and defense decisionmakers at all levels to better understand and exploit the power of wargaming while avoiding its pitfalls.
Wargame design is the art of creating a warfare model or simulation to be used in wargaming; wargame development is the process of testing and refining that model to make it more effective in achieving its objective; and wargame play is the exercising of the model by becoming an integral part of it.
Wargaming in the British services permitting commanders to practise exercising command, and to test their operational and logisitc plans against an 'opponent' whose actions, and capabilities, are similar to those of an expected real enemy.
www.au.af.mil /au/aul/bibs/wargame/3.htm   (4216 words)

  
 Toward a History Based Doctrine for Wargaming   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
He argued wargaming had and should shape national policy, that they were the cure for peacetime "stove pipe" mentality, and that it could not only produce better plans but could condition its practitioners to think, hence react, quicker then their enemy hence gaining a important advantage.
Wargames dropped in popularity as it became evident wargames of the period could not address the psychological and political dimensions of the Boer War.
These wargames were truly comprehensive, with industrialists brought in to advise on the speed of industrial mobilization, attachés brought back from their assigned countries to play those country’s militaries realistically, and diplomats integrating their actions with the militaries.
www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil /airchronicles/cc/caffrey.html   (14486 words)

  
 Miniature Wargaming: Free Miniature Wargames Rules, Wargaming Resources, Miniature Wargames Terrain, Painting Advice ...
Miniature Wargaming is part of the "adventure games" hobby, which includes r ole p laying and board games.
Wargamers recreate battles on the tabletop with toy soldiers, like a more complicated game of chess.
The most popular miniature wargames are fantasy and science fiction based, such as Warhammer, Warhammer 40K, Warmachine and The Lord of the Rings.
www.miniaturewargaming.com   (589 words)

  
 Historical Miniatures Wargaming Ring
A 6mm Napoleonic Miniatures Wargaming club whose objectives were to simulate large scale Napoleonic battles on a reasonable sized table (5'x 9'),start and finish complete battles in one meeting, using figures that are scale practical, economical, easy to paint and durable.
Wargaming World War 1 used to be in 2 formats: naval, and large formation ground combat.
JODIECON is “Wargaming As It Should Be.” Each JodieCon Historical Campaign features a weekend-long Historical Campaign with thousands of miniatures, premier HMGS Game Masters, presentations by historians and re-enactors, and much genuine camaraderie.
u.webring.com /hub?ring=hmw   (2194 words)

  
 Gamasutra - Feature - "Postcard From SGS 2005: Wargaming Science"
Perla, whom noted author and game designer Larry Bond has called "the leading wargaming expert in the United States" is the author of important reference tome The Art of Wargaming, published by the Naval Institute Press.
This made Perla think seriously about scientific elements of wargames, and try to map out some scientific concepts that would map to "serious games" of any type.
Firstly, Perla took a broad overview to define wargaming, arguing that a traditional definition: "Any type of warfare modeling, including exercises, campaign analysis, computer simulation without players," is not necessarily the best.
www.gamasutra.com /features/20051031/carless_01.shtml   (725 words)

  
 Balagan Military History and Wargaming
Wargaming, and Military History, is the interest I pour most of my spare time into.
Campaign rules are catalogued with the tactical rules they relate to, but there is a master Campaign index as well.
Meetings are held on the 2nd and 4th Sunday of each month from 2 PM to 6 PM at St. Joseph's Church Hall, Eleanor Road, Waltham Cross, UK.
www.balagan.org.uk /war/index.htm   (1182 words)

  
 Major General Tremorden Rederring's Colonial Wargames Page
Ouargistan is the setting for the tabletop battles of a group of friends in north Texas, USA.
Miniature wargaming uses miniature figures and models to create a semblance of historical or fictional combat in the form of a competitive game.
Players act as commanders, using rulers to govern the movement of the miniatures on the battlefield and dice to help determine the results of combat and firing.
zeitcom.com /majgen   (423 words)

  
 Colonial Wargaming Part 1 - Web sites and magazines
These wargaming web masters are an example to us all.
Over recent years, this era in wargaming has been one of the most productive in terms of new figure ranges.
Ian Croxall's The Amazing Adventures of the Red Shadow: Colonial Adventure Wargaming in Africa 1888-1914 is a web report on a series of wargame battles set during France's pacification of Morocco, Algeria and the Sahara.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/wargaming/48078   (481 words)

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