Sunday 16 October 2022

Refighting old Battles: Repetition in Wargaming

Is there any value in replaying the same battles over and over again?

2 comments:

  1. Is there value in refighting the same historical battle? Absolutely!

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  2. I’m with Jon on this. Definitely yes. You mentioned one big advantage Lee - trying out different rules.
    Another is to tweak the scenario and any scenario specific rules to hit that sweet spot: representing the battle as it largely was (as far as you can in a bloodless game!) whilst providing a game that gives both sides a reasonable chance. Many historical battles present severe hurdles to this - set the clock running too early and the historical winners don’t stand a chance; set it too late and the other side don’t stand a chance.
    And then some battles are just so inherently interesting, with many options to the opposing sides, that they bear revisiting to see what happens if you do X rather than Y.
    Sorry, this went on a bit!
    Chris/Nundanket

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