The History of Wargaming Project
The project aims to make the largest possible collection of wargaming books and rules available to the modern reader. Ranging from second editions of wargaming classics, to professional wargaming rules used by the military and innovations in current wargaming.
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Recreational Wargaming...Early Wargames
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The Wargaming Pioneers Including Little Wars by H.G. Wells, The War Game
for Boy Scouts and The War Game by Captain Sachs 1898-1940 Early Wargames
Vol. 1 12 Oct 2011 by John Curry |
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Volume 1 of the Early Wargames series contains a compilation of fascinating pre-Donald Featherstone wargames written between 1898 and 1940. Prior to Donald Featherstone publishing his classic book War Games in 1962 there were numerous attempts by other authors, to create wargames. H.G. Wells's 1913 Little Wars, was the best known early wargaming book, although only one of a number of early wargaming rules. The many similarities in the rules indicate that H.G. Wells was clearly familiar with some of these when devising his own rules. This book contains selected key wargames all written between 1898 and 1940 including::
The book is available from Amazon and other online retail sites. |
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| Supporting Material The pdf is one of the stranger pieces of wargaming history that reputedly does not exist, it is an account of a war game of sorts for a child. It contains no rules and may be trying to tell a history using a simple game as a story telling device. It may amuse the reader for a few moments. The Tin Army of the Potomiac (1888) |