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• Introduction--
• Part 1 Theory-- 1.Modelling War--
• 2. Accuracy vs Playability--
• 3. The Utility of Simulations--
• 4. Simulation Research--
• Part 2 Mechanics--
• 5. Designing the Components--
• 6. Modelling Conflict Dynamics--
• 7. Modelling Command Dynamics--
• 8. Development and Playtesting--
• Part 3 Simulations--
• 9. Ancient Warfare--
• 10. World War Two--
• 11. Air Combat-- Conclusion--
• Appendix 1: Some Basic Maths--
• Appendix 2: Cyberboard as a Design Tool-- Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

• Introduction Part I: Theory
• 1. Modelling War
• 2. Accuracy vs Simplicity
• 3. Educational Utility
• 4. Simulation Research Part II: Mechanics
• 5. Designing the Components
• 6. Modelling Conflict Dynamics
• 7. Modelling Command Dynamics
• 8. Integration and Testing Part III: Examples
• 9. Ancient Warfare
• 10. World War Two
• 11. Tactical Combat Conclusion
• Appendix 1: Assembling the Components
• Appendix 2: Finding Published Simulations
• Appendix 3: Basic Mathematics
• Appendix 4: Using Cyberboard
• Appendix 5: Kartenspiel Notes Bibliography Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Over the past fifty years, many thousands of conflict simulations have been published which bring the dynamics of past and possible future wars to life. Philip Sabin used such techniques in his acclaimed previous book Lost Battles to cast new light on Greek and Roman land engagements. In this new work, he explores the theory and practice of conflict simulation as a topic in its own right, based on his thirty years of experience in designing wargames and using them to educate both military and civilian students. Simulating War sets conflict simulation in its proper context alongside more academically familiar techniques such as game theory and operational analysis. It explains in detail the analytical and modelling techniques involved, and it teaches you how to design your own simulations of conflicts of your choice, as do Philip Sabin's MA students. The book provides eight simple illustrative simulations of specific historical conflicts, complete with rules, maps and counters. These games have all been employed successfully in class, and you can use them to see exactly how conflict simulation works. Simulating War is essential reading for all recreational or professional simulation gamers, and for anyone who is interested in modelling war, from teachers and students to military officers. A key feature of the book is its inclusion of illustrative wargames designed by Professor Sabin for use in class, complete with rules and full colour maps and counters. These are as follows: - Second Punic War (multiplayer diplomacy) - Roma Invicta? (Hannibal's early campaigns in Italy) - Kartenspiel (card game of Napoleonic battle) - Hell's Gate (the Korsun pocket, winter 1944) - Big Week (US bombing raids, February 1944) - Fire and Movement (WW2 British infantry battalion attack) - Block Busting (WW2 urban combat) - Angels One Five (grand tactical aerial dogfighting in WW2).
(source: Nielsen Book Data)
Over the past fifty years, many thousands of conflict simulations have been published that bring the dynamics of past and possible future wars to life. In this book, Philip Sabin explores the theory and practice of conflict simulation as a topic in its own right, based on his thirty years of experience in designing wargames and using them in teaching. Simulating War sets conflict simulation in its proper context alongside more familiar techniques such as game theory and operational analysis. It explains in detail the analytical and modelling techniques involved, and it teaches you how to design your own simulations of conflicts of your choice. The book provides eight simple illustrative simulations of specific historical conflicts, complete with rules, maps and counters. Simulating War is essential reading for all recreational or professional simulation gamers, and for anyone who is interested in modelling war, from teachers and students to military officers.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• Foreword: the paper time machine goes electric / James F. Dunnigan
• Part I. Paper wars
• A game out of all proportions: how a hobby miniaturized war / Jon Peterson
• The history of wargaming project / John Curry
• The fundamental gap between tabletop simulation games and the "truth" / Tetsuya Nakamura
• Fleet admiral: tracing one element in the evolution of a game design / Jack Greene
• The wild blue yonder: representing air warfare in games / Lee Brimmicombe-Wood
• Historical aesthetics in mapmaking / Mark Mahaffey
• The "I" in team: war and combat in tabletop role-playing games / A. Scott Glancy
• Part II. War engines
• War engines: wargames as systems from the tabletop to the computer / Henry Lowood
• The engine of wargaming / Matthew B. Caffrey, Jr
• Design for effect: the "common language" of Advanced squad leader / J.R. Tracy
• Combat commander: time to throw your plan away / John A. Foley
• Empire of the sun: the next evolution of the card-driven game engine / Mark Herman
• The paths of glory lead but to the gaming table / Ted S. Raicer
• A new kind of history: the culture of wargame scenario design communities / Troy Goodfellow
• Part III. Operations
• Operations research, systems analysis, and wargaming: riding the cycle of research / Peter P. Perla
• The application of statistical and forensics validation to simulation modeling in wargames / Brien J. Miller
• Goal-driven design and Napoleon's triumph / Rachel Simmons
• Harpoon: an original serious game / Don R. Gilman
• The development and application of the real-time air power wargame simulation modern air power / John Tiller and Catherine Cavagnaro
• Red vs. blue / Thomas C. Schelling
• Hypergaming / Russell Vane
• Part IV. The bleeding edge
• Wargaming futures: naturalizing the new American way of war / Luke Caldwell and Tim Lenoir
• Creating persian incursion / Larry Bond
• Modeling the Second Battle of Fallujah / Laurent Closier
• Playing with toy soldiers: authenticity and metagaming in WWI video games / Andrew Wackerfuss
• America's army / Marcus Schulzke
• We the soldiers: player complicity and ethical gameplay in call of duty: modern warfare / Miguel Sicart
• Upending militarized masculinity in Spec ops: the line / Soraya Murray.

• Part V. Systems and situations
• Wargames as writing systems / Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi
• Playing defense: gender, just war, and game design / Elizabeth Losh
• Debord's nostalgic algorithm / Alexander R. Galloway
• The Ludic Science Club crosses the Berezina / Richard Barbrook
• War games / David Levinthal
• Troubling the magic circle: miniature war in Iraq / Brian Conley
• Part VI. The war room
• Wargames as an academic instrument / Philip Sabin
• Lessons from the hexagon: wargames and the military historian / Robert M. Citino
• Simulation literacy: the case for wargames in the history classroom / Rob MacDougall and Lisa Faden
• The amateur designer: for fun and profit / Charles Vasey
• Struggling with deep play: utilizing twilight struggle for historical inquiry / Jeremy Antley
• Model-driven military wargame design and evaluation / Alexander H. Levis and Robert J. Elder
• Part VII. Irregularities
• Gaming the nonkinetic / Rex Brynen
• Inhabited models and irregular warfare games: an approach to educational and analytical gaming at the US Department of Defense / Elizabeth M. Bartels
• Chess, go, and Vietnam: gaming modern insurgency / Brian Train and Volko Ruhnke
• Irregular warfare: the Kobayashi Maru of the wargaming world / Yuna Huh Wong
• A mighty fortress is our God: when military action meets religious strife / Ed Beach
• Cultural wargaming: understanding cross-cultural communications using wargames / James Wallman
• Part VIII. Other theaters
• Wargaming (as) literature / Esther MacCallum-Stewart
• Tristram Shandy: Toby and Trim's wargames and the bowling-green / Bill McDonald
• Third Reich and The Third Reich / John Prados
• How Star fleet battles happened / Stephen V. Cole
• Total global domination: games workshop and Warhammer 40,000 / Ian Sturrock and James Wallis
• When the drums begin to roll / Larry Brom
• War re-created: twentieth-century war reenactors and the private event / Jenny Thompson
• Part IX. Fight the future
• War, mathematics, and simulation: drones and (losing) control of battlespace / Patrick Crogan
• How to sell wargames to the non-wargamer / Michael Peck
• Wargaming the cyber frontier / Joseph Miranda
• The unfulfilled promise of digital wargames / Greg Costikyan
• Civilian casualties: shifting perspective in This war of mine / Kacper Kwiatkowski
• Practicing a new wargame / Mary Flanagan

Examinations of wargaming for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and historical contexts. Games with military themes date back to antiquity, and yet they are curiously neglected in much of the academic and trade literature on games and game history. This volume fills that gap, providing a diverse set of perspectives on wargaming's past, present, and future. In Zones of Control, contributors consider wargames played for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and historical contexts. They consider both digital and especially tabletop games, most of which cover specific historical conflicts or are grounded in recognizable real-world geopolitics. Game designers and players will find the historical and critical contexts often missing from design and hobby literature; military analysts will find connections to game design and the humanities; and academics will find documentation and critique of a sophisticated body of cultural work in which the complexity of military conflict is represented in ludic systems and procedures. Each section begins with a long anchoring chapter by an established authority, which is followed by a variety of shorter pieces both analytic and anecdotal. Topics include the history of playing at war; operations research and systems design; wargaming and military history; wargaming's ethics and politics; gaming irregular and non-kinetic warfare; and wargames as artistic practice. Contributors Jeremy Antley, Richard Barbrook, Elizabeth M. Bartels, Ed Beach, Larry Bond, Larry Brom, Lee Brimmicombe-Wood, Rex Brynen, Matthew B. Caffrey, Jr., Luke Caldwell, Catherine Cavagnaro, Robert M. Citino, Laurent Closier, Stephen V. Cole, Brian Conley, Greg Costikyan, Patrick Crogan, John Curry, James F. Dunnigan, Robert J. Elder, Lisa Faden, Mary Flanagan, John A. Foley, Alexander R. Galloway, Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi, Don R. Gilman, A. Scott Glancy, Troy Goodfellow, Jack Greene, Mark Herman, Kacper Kwiatkowski, Tim Lenoir, David Levinthal, Alexander H. Levis, Henry Lowood, Elizabeth Losh, Esther MacCallum-Stewart, Rob MacDougall, Mark Mahaffey, Bill McDonald, Brien J. Miller, Joseph Miranda, Soraya Murray, Tetsuya Nakamura, Michael Peck, Peter P. Perla, Jon Peterson, John Prados, Ted S. Raicer, Volko Ruhnke, Philip Sabin, Thomas C. Schelling, Marcus Schulzke, Miguel Sicart, Rachel Simmons, Ian Sturrock, Jenny Thompson, John Tiller, J. R. Tracy, Brian Train, Russell Vane, Charles Vasey, Andrew Wackerfuss, James Wallis, James Wallman, Yuna Huh Wong.
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• Introduction--
• 1. On animals and men--
• 2. Games and gladiators--
• 3. Trials by combat, tournaments, and duels--
• 4. Battles, campaigns, wars, and politics--
• 5. From bloody games to bloodless wars--
• 6. Enter the computer--
• 7. The females of the species--
• 8. Conclusions: the mirrors and the mirrored.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Where did wargames come from? Who participated in them, and why? How is their development related to changes in real-life warfare? Which aspects of war did they capture, which ones did they leave out, how, and why? What do they tell us about the conduct of war in the times and places where they were played? How useful are they in training and preparation for war? Why are some so much more popular than others, and how do men and women differ in their interest? Starting with the combat of David versus Goliath, passing through the gladiatorial games, tournaments, trials by battle, duels, and board games such as chess, all the way to the latest simulations and computer games, this unique book traces the subject in all its splendid richness. As it does so, it provides new and occasionally surprising insights into human nature.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Computer Wargames
• Chapter 2: Introduction to MMF
• Chapter 3: Game Creation Basics in MMF
• Chapter 4: Creating Ideas
• Chapter 5: Your First Hex Map
• Chapter 6: Movement
• Chapter 7: Terrain Effects
• Chapter 8: Weather
• Chapter 9: Enemy Movement
• Chapter 10: Attack & Defense
• Chapter 11: Generals and Officers
• Chapter 12: Digging In
• Chapter 13: Maps
• Chapter 14: Money
• Chapter 15: All at Sea
• Chapter 16: Look to the Skys
• Chapter 17: Reinforcement and Supply
• Chapter 18: Additional Concepts.
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Do you want to learn how to create computer war games, but don't know how to get started or don't have any experience with game programming? Going to War: Creating Computer War Games shows you how to use the drag-and-drop game engine, Multimedia Fusion 2, to make your very own computer war games to play and share. After an introduction to the Multimedia Fusion 2 interface and the basics of how to use it, you'll get started on the game that you'll create throughout the course of the book. You'll begin by making your game map, using a system of hexagon tiles to create the terrain and the different units you want to include in your game such as soldiers and tanks. Then you'll learn how to set rules for player movement, different types of terrain, and combat. You'll even find more advanced techniques such as how to implement officers, fortifications, and even a simple monetary system in your games. The book even discusses how to track and find bugs in your games and how to create an editor that allows you to easily apply data you've already created to new games. Everything you need to build your own war games is included with the book, and by the time you've worked your way through it you'll have designed your very own working and playable war game.Learn how to create your very own wargames, games that simulate or represent military operations. This book shows readers everything they need to know to create wargames on the PC using the drag-and-drop game engine Multimedia Fusion 2. No previous game creation or programming experience is necessary and when they finish the book, readers will have all the tools they need to create their own wargames. Coverage includes the history of wargames, how to design a wargame, movement, terrain and weather effects, attack and defense, and more.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• Introduction--
• 1. On animals and men--
• 2. Games and gladiators--
• 3. Trials by combat, tournaments, and duels--
• 4. Battles, campaigns, wars, and politics--
• 5. From bloody games to bloodless wars--
• 6. Enter the computer--
• 7. The females of the species--
• 8. Conclusions: the mirrors and the mirrored.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Where did wargames come from? Who participated in them, and why? How is their development related to changes in real-life warfare? Which aspects of war did they capture, which ones did they leave out, how, and why? What do they tell us about the conduct of war in the times and places where they were played? How useful are they in training and preparation for war? Why are some so much more popular than others, and how do men and women differ in their interest? Starting with the combat of David versus Goliath, passing through the gladiatorial games, tournaments, trials by battle, duels, and board games such as chess, all the way to the latest simulations and computer games, this unique book traces the subject in all its splendid richness. As it does so, it provides new and occasionally surprising insights into human nature.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)