Archive for October, 2007
A short History of Wargames
Sunday, October 21st, 2007By Colonel Wilbur Gray
Military Wargaming
We now know that military wargames actually evolved from games played principally for fun. The first of these was Wei-Hai (”encirclement”), a Chinese game which is usually now called Go. A later, similar game was the Indian Chaturanga, the system from which chess in its various forms came about. Chess itself […]
Remember The Fallen
Friday, October 19th, 2007We are fast approaching 11 November when the UK and Commonwealth countries remember the fallen of the Great War and World War Two in services of rememberence to mark the hour and day that the Armistice was signed in 1918 that was supposedly to be the war to end all wars. As we all know […]
What value do we place on the games we own?
Thursday, October 4th, 2007About 3 years back I mentioned to a friend that I owned SPI’s Art of Siege Quad and he was somewhat taken aback that I had this game. He asked whether I had seen a recent auction on E-Bay where a mint copy of AoS was sold for over £400.00. I was amazed however I […]