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Re:A developer who spent 13 years making his childhood game by SixSigma on Thursday June 19, 2014 @05:08PM (#7918320)
Are you sure about the book title? That one is a guide to post ww2 combat whereas this one:

The Complete Wargames Handbook

http://www.hyw.com/Books/WargamesHandbook/Contents.htm

Is about how to make computer war games.

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Re:A developer who spent 13 years making his childhood game by ChuckMcM on Thursday June 19, 2014 @07:40PM (#7918883)
This one: http://www.amazon.com/How-Make-Fourth-Edition-Comprehensive/...

Called "How to Make War" and it describes the mechanics, the theory, and the variables that impact the prosecution of warfare. The Wargames book was, in my opinion of course, a derivative which attempted to re-contextualize the information from HtMW into something more directly 'wargame like' but, again in my opinion, it left out too much to be useful even for that.

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Re:A developer who spent 13 years making his childhood game by SixSigma on Friday June 20, 2014 @03:18AM (#7919813)
The Wargames book predates htmw by 10 years so htmw is the recontextualisation but thanks because the reviews on it don't really relatw to gaming.
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Re:A developer who spent 13 years making his childhood game by SixSigma on Friday June 20, 2014 @02:35PM (#7922090)
I just bought it so I'll see for myself. I'm sure I'll enjoy it.
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