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A comment on Little Wars.

Re:Little Wars by jarin on Friday October 21, 2011 @01:27AM (#3138565)
H.G. Wells, Original Wargamer :)

This reminds me of a similar game called Lego Wars that my friends and I used to play in middle school (I downloaded the rules off of GEnie):

http://mama.indstate.edu/users/sean/legowars/wars.htm

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Re:Little Wars by pxm on Friday October 21, 2011 @06:44AM (#3139233)
See also BrikWars: http://www.brikwars.com/rules/2005/cover.htm
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Re:Little Wars by sambeau on Friday October 21, 2011 @09:14AM (#3139550)
Not the original, wargaming appears throughout history.

The Prussians used it as part of training in 1812: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriegsspiel_(war-game)

Also it also appears in 'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman' from 1759 (and the Steve Coogan film).

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