GrogNews: GameTalk - Definitions

17 August 2011

Define "wargame"

GO!

By: Brant

Anonymous said...: Something I don't get to play pretty much every anymore due to children! :); 17 August, 2011 16:59
RangerX3X said...: A war-game would be any game regardless of genre where the player is required to make some form of input that will affect the outcome of a specific mission or scenario, and presents that player with random unscripted events which can affect the result of any action and cause reassessment of the approach taken.; 18 August, 2011 20:41
Dan Eastwood said...: Are you saying "GO" is a the definition of a wargame? ;-)

Wargame [wawr-geym] (noun): A game which simulates conflict over the possession of territory, or control* over the field of play.

* this is intended to cover games that might not have maps or territory, but have some more abstract sort of objective.; 18 August, 2011 20:51

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