"Reflections on wargaming" Topic

I've collected a number of my essays on various wargaming topics under this 'Reflections on wargaming' label on the BBBBlog:
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Big Bloody Brainy production. Excellent.

Thank you

My definition of a historical battle is broader. If your using period tactics, period figures, rules then you are playing period correct historical battles. It can be a hypothetical game, campaign game, pickup game or a what if game. They are all historical battles. It isn't scripted and it is not a reenactment. Anything can happen.

I'd agree with Old Contemptible.

I would 3rd OC.

Ditto to OC.

And in my update to the blog post about "Reasons NOT to refight historical battles", I essentially allowed the same as OC: "fighting fictional battles between historical armies could be regarded as explorations of historical weapons and tactics". But it's not a REfight of a historical battle unless the battle situation at the start of the game actually happened in the first place.

The hardest thing for historical refight is terrain, if it is more than a limited plain.

jcfrog wrote –
"The hardest thing for historical refight is terrain, if it is more than a limited plain."

True words, indeed – especially when coupled with REALISTIC impediments to tactical movement and siting of field artillery imposed by said terrain (something I cannot recall ever having seen addressed in any of the popular ACW rule sets).

B

"The shape of the ground dictates the shape of the battle." (Not sure who I'm quoting there. Probably said in one form or another by plenty of authoritative people.)