"Little Wars 100 Years" Topic
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| Ensign | 02 Aug 2013 11:33 p.m. PST |
link Not that bad I suppose :) |
| MacrossMartin | 03 Aug 2013 12:01 a.m. PST |
Huzzah! Thank you for posting this, Ensign! |
| arthur1815 | 03 Aug 2013 2:31 a.m. PST |
I wonder how many of today's wargame rules will still be used in another hundred years' time? Perhaps the appeal of HG Wells' Little Wars is that – despite its author's claims in the Appendix on Kriegsspiel -it is a game of toy soldiers with no pretension to recreate or model any particular period of history, a test of the opposing players' tactical skill and marksmanship, rather than an exercise in creating super-armies or exploiting the letter of the rules? |
| Yesthatphil | 03 Aug 2013 2:50 a.m. PST |
TMP link it is a game of toy soldiers with no pretension to recreate or model any particular period of history, a test of the opposing players' tactical skill and marksmanship, rather than an exercise in creating super-armies or exploiting the letter of the rules? Issues Well's is unlikely to have imagined would be a problem. But Wells certainly thought his game was a wargame, not just a game of toy soldiers. Phil |
| Patient Zero | 03 Aug 2013 10:43 a.m. PST |
Nice story but I wish journalists wouldn't use lazy and unhistorical expressions like "war was then looming in Europe". Maybe in hindsight but, in 1913, NO it blinking wasn't! |
| Yesthatphil | 03 Aug 2013 10:54 a.m. PST |
Yes – good point, Patient Zero .. Phil |
| arthur1815 | 04 Aug 2013 6:12 a.m. PST |
Phil, I take your point about what Wells thought – but you will note I did say 'despite its author's claims…'. My point was rather that one can play and enjoy Little Wars – as both my children did when they were younger – without worrying about military history; what real-life unit a group of ten or so toy soldiers represents; whether the accuracy of a Britains 4.7 inch gun or a Playmobil ACW Napoleon is an accurate model of real artillery fire, &c., &c. One can simply enjoy Little Wars on its own terms, as a toy soldier game, and therein IMHO lies much of its charm. |
| Last Hussar | 11 Aug 2013 4:26 a.m. PST |
Patient Zero. Hmmmm. Its difficult to say. While The Great War wasn't expected as in 'This will happen, then this' there was a general 'something will happen' As early as 1910 the Daily Mail (who else) was printing hysterical stories about how Prussian Jackboots would be goose-stepping down Whitehall. Peace was held together by an increasingly fragile series of alliances and guarantees. |
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worries about not losing his rules stuff.
