Are there games that are traditionally used for training the military personnel? Think WW2 and earlier.

>>95928087 (OP)
I played one for fun about geopolitical tensions between China and the US in the Taiwan Strain and South China Sea.
Apparently someone was using it.
It ended up being all about the Phillipines and Vietnam decidding the Chinese were never going to play ball and siding with the US.

Yes, there's a thing called Tactical Decision Games. The Marines use them to train maneuver warfare thinking.

Imagine how much of a chad HG Wells was, writing bad ass time travel sci fi books in Victorian England and then he goes and invents tabletop war gaming and builds entire little towns for Napoleonic battles on his floor with his buddies.

>>95928482
He was also a prolific shagger

>>95928482
>>95928533
Wells done, I'd say.

>>95928464
What TDG game would your recommend checking out?

>>95928482
He didn't invent it. He helped get it out of pure military use. Prussians started it.

>>95928087 (OP)
that looks like an unreleased version of Littoral Commander, designed by Sebastian Bae, probably a design explicitly for training the military. So yes, OP.

There are many such cases. Wargames literally started that way

I like how china does strategical training by overhyping their enemies while making their equipment and conditions shit

>>95928935
Commendation for mentioning the Prussians but it was out of pure military use 40 years before Wells published his book. Wells isn't even the first person to use toy soldiers in codified war gaming, that was possibly R L Stevenson.

>>95928087 (OP)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriegsspiel

>>95928087 (OP)
OP pic-- are these the type of people about to wage war on Iran? kek. womemes and minorities

>>95937123
>>Persian hand-me-downs getting styled on by Ms. Marine and Pedro
God Bless the United States of America

>>95933891
The OG tabletop

>>95930856
Well, it's one of the best ways to set up stuff like logistics and counter measures. What good is a war plan if it only accounts for the optimal scenario?

>>95950486
>What good is a war plan if it only accounts for the optimal scenario?
An American/Russian warplan

>>95938379
I don't think the mutts who begged and demand a ceasefire styled on anyone lol.

Current work, not pre-WWII, and not only wargaming, but:

https://www.rand.org/topics/wargaming.html

https://www.rand.org/pubs/tools/TL301.html

https://www.rand.org/global-and-emerging-risks/centers/methods-centers/gaming.html

No wonder America keeps losing

>>95954192
Shut the fuck up decalslopper

>>95928087 (OP)
Most chess-playing cultures have considered the game ranting for military strategists for large portions of history. The same is also true for Go.

A friend of mine who went to the Naval Academy told me that one of his instructors heavily encouraged playing Diplomacy, but that might have been just one dude.

>>95928482
nothing chad about denying the Holodomor

>>95954226
Go really doesn't do much to obscure its military ties. Nearly all its terms are militiarily themed.

>>95928087 (OP)
many of the worlds kings and generals from the era of knights, pikers, pike and shot, and musketry devoted massive amounts of space to miniatures games, wargaming. some of the rules even persist to this day. and if you wanted you could play the game they did back in the 16th, 17th, 18th century.

>>95928087 (OP)
this shit is a complete waste of time, it doesn't train anything