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| Tango01 | 10 Nov 2021 9:36 p.m. PST |
"Everyday I learn something new. This is not a throw-away line, but a genuine comment. A wonderful colleague of mine always asked, 'what have you learned?', instead of 'how are you going?' I have held on to this as an approach to work and life in general. There is so much new to learn about, be they snippets, details or entire new areas. Sometimes though, I am flabbergasted at learning something fundamental about which I was previously unaware in an area where I thought I had the basics covered (at least). So it was a couple of week's ago with my discovery of a glaring gap in my knowledge of the history of wargaming and of the development of formalised rules for this activity: Kriegsspiel. Forget ya 'latest and greatest' wargame rules penned by some wargamer, it has all been done**, by a civil administrator and his son, a serving artillery officer, and then published—back in 1824…"
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begins to think about terrain for Team Yankee.
