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    Kriegsspiel is a genre of wargaming developed by the Prussian Army in the 19th century to teach battlefield tactics to officers. The word Kriegsspiel...
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  • Kriegsspiel is a genre of wargaming developed by the Prussian army in the 19th century to teach tactics to officers. Kriegsspiel or Kriegspiel may also...
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    professional tool. One of these was Georg von Reisswitz, the creator of Kriegsspiel and the father of professional wargaming, but he stuck with the word...
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    Peterson identifies Strategos as being largely descended from the Prussian Kriegsspiel, and its translations, that had made their way into the hands of British...
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  • game offers multiple methods of combat. The early tabletop war game, Kriegsspiel, created in 1812, contained rules for a "hand-fight" or hand-to-hand...
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    wargames, which foreigners referred to as Kriegsspiel (the German word for "wargame"). The first Kriegsspiel manual in English, based on the system of...
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    use. One, known as "rigid Kriegsspiel", was played by strict adherence to the lengthy rule book. The other, "free Kriegsspiel", was governed by the decisions...
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  • fight; especially involving many combatants. The 1812 tabletop war game Kriegsspiel referred to the hand-combat stage of the game as a melee. Later war games...
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    convention originates with the inventors of the table-top war-game (the "Kriegsspiel"), the Prussian Georg von Reisswitz; their army wore Prussian blue, so...
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    privately-funded kriegsspiel clubs were formed in Prussia. They were mainly frequented by army officers, but some had civilian members as well, so kriegsspiel was...
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    19th century, chess variants evolved into modern wargames, most notably Kriegsspiel. Over a century later, David Wesely developed Braunstein, the first tabletop...
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  • invented by Henry Michael Temple in 1899 and based upon the original Kriegsspiel (German for war game) developed by Georg von Reiswitz in 1812. In this...
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  • rather than a gamer. As such, IABSM has been heavily influenced by the Kriegsspiel approach, usually (but not always) utilizing an umpire to help decide...
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  • collection of the University of Berlin. Hellwig was also the inventor of kriegsspiel (literally war game), a sophisticated variant of chess which had much...
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    of wargaming he developed is known in the English-speaking world as Kriegsspiel. It is characterized by high realism, an emphasis on the experience of...
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    compete. The two decided that with an addition of written rules, a good Kriegsspiel type game could be developed. The game revolved around the use of lead...
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  • designer, and video game developer. Wesely's developments, inspired by Kriegsspiel wargames, were important and influential in the early history of role-playing...
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  • Actionspiel für PC, PS3, Xbox 360. Spec Ops – The Line: Das Anti-Kriegs-Kriegsspiel" [Test für PC, PS3 und Xbox 360. Spec Ops – The Line: The anti-war war...
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    Spooner's A Voyage of Discovery were popular in the British empire. Kriegsspiel is a genre of wargaming developed in 19th century Prussia to teach battle...
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  • critical miss effects. Critical hits originate from the Reiswitzian Kriegsspiel, which they were added into shortly after the death of Georg von Reisswitz...
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    military simulations, most famously to the Prussian staff training system Kriegsspiel. Consequently, rules designers struggle with the perceived obligation...
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  • During the Civil War, volunteers from Rhode Island played American Kriegsspiel, which had originally been created in 1812 for training Prussian officers-of-war...
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    human-computer interaction and game feel. The first military war games, or Kriegsspiel, were designed in Prussia in the 19th century to train staff officers...
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    Clausewitz's military theories and the Prussian concept of war games (Kriegsspiel) in a process of refining tactics. By training some sixty of the highest-ranking...
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    political leaders (see History of Go for an example of such a tradition, or Kriegsspiel for a more recent example). Many other video games are simulators of...
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  • carbine (a firearm). For the climbing hardware, see carabiner above Kriegsspiel, in English also written Kriegspiel, war game (different meanings) Luftwaffe...
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  • attaché to Berlin from 1896 to 1900, where he had had experience of their Kriegsspiel. The scenario was: "War had broken out between France and Germany on...
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  • Isabelle and Chuck. Eternal Prussia is based on wargames and the history of the genre, particularly Kriegsspiel and its effect on the Franco-Prussian War....
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    Battle of 1815 - Waterloo, another free online version of Guy Debort's Kriegsspiel Game (article), Totality.tv, Sunday, April 13, 2008. Originally published...
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    the Lord Spares Us, Kiss Me Hardy, Le Feu Sacré, Triumph of the Will, Kriegsspiel in both its 1824 and 1862 versions, They Couldn't Hit An Elephant, Sharp...
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