 Editor in Chief Bill   | 22 Jun 2016 6:53 p.m. PST |
Have you played any version of the Prussian wargame known as Kriegspiel? |
nnascati  | 22 Jun 2016 7:00 p.m. PST |
I tried. Got the rules, scenarios and maps. Bought specially made pieces from Litko for the units and pasted the labels on them. I attempted to play the game but just couldn't get it. |
| Wackmole9 | 22 Jun 2016 7:06 p.m. PST |
Yes, I played it a couple of years ago at Recruits in KS. Bill D |
| Nic Robson | 22 Jun 2016 7:16 p.m. PST |
Aye, with Bell Leeson one of the translators of the 1980's version of the rules. Nic EUREKA MINIATURES |
| Bill McHarg | 22 Jun 2016 11:34 p.m. PST |
Several times. Like Bill D, I played it at Recruits and at the guy's house who ran it at Recruits. It is a fascinating game when its well run. You need an umpire who knows the rules. |
| arthur1815 | 23 Jun 2016 3:18 a.m. PST |
I played for several years with Bill Leeson and a group of friends. We did experiment with simplifying the rules or adapting them to suit larger forces or other periods, using – for example – the opposed die rolls from Totten's Strategos an American Kriegsspiel. Although we never actually got around to trying it, I always felt that the movement, firing and combat rules could easily be used to control a conventional face to face, open wargame with toy soldiers, though one would then lose the fog of war created by the separate maps and closed, umpire-controlled game structure. |
| Old Contemptibles | 23 Jun 2016 7:57 a.m. PST |
I played the old Avalon Hill game "Kriegspiel" which I thought was the topic of this post. I am apparently wrong. Still have the game though. |
| 55th Division | 23 Jun 2016 8:37 a.m. PST |
Arthur the American Kriegspiel is by Livermore, Totten called Strategos a series of American Games of war I have a few of the rules available here link |
| Weasel | 23 Jun 2016 9:55 a.m. PST |
Not explicitly but we've played games in a similar vein |
| Tom Bryant | 23 Jun 2016 10:23 a.m. PST |
Just a clarification, we are talking about the chess variant with three boards and the screen to keep everyone fromlooking at each other's pieces or the umpire's board correct? If so no, but I'd really like to find the rules and give it a go with the local chess club guys. |
| MajorB | 23 Jun 2016 12:44 p.m. PST |
Just a clarification, we are talking about the chess variant with three boards and the screen to keep everyone fromlooking at each other's pieces or the umpire's board correct? No, we are talking about von Reisswitz's Kriegsspiel
kriegsspiel.org.uk And yes, I have played it, although it was many years ago. |
| Trierarch | 23 Jun 2016 11:52 p.m. PST |
Yep, umpired the early version some years ago
Based on Bill Leeson's hardback book
Excellent experiences they were too. Cheers
David |
