What is the wargame

The game of the war, or wargame, is the reconstruction and/or the historical-military simulation of situations and events with the use of rules that allow of riprodurre the more faithfully possible adopted methods of combat in the considered period.

Battles historically happened can therefore be reconstructed or to create with the fantasy combats and set in action former novo; in kind it is according to address that comes preferred from " the wargamers ", since the pure and simple reconstruction of a battle second the same criteria with which it has been really fought is resolved in something pure analytical and scientific, confining the players to the role of simple manovratori of pawns. Varying can be that one to line up the troops following initially the historical truth and then to lead the battle to free wheel, second the own inventiveness. This system, even if more staff, does not satisfy still totally since he places the players of forehead to an initial situation well or badly that is not that intentional one. For this reason the fans of war games prefer the competition to free tactical or strategic topic.

The game naturally presupposes a sure interest for the history, for a its corrected development and suit appreciation is indispensable to know the historical-military aspects of the age in which it comes acclimatized.

The war games understandings in so far as have enough recent un.origine " the wargame " in fact, are been born originally like true and just a method of study of the Line officers in order to assess the effectiveness

of new military doctrines or in order to try on the paper the predisposed operations plans in forecast of a conflict against a nation it avails again.

Such it was the use that ne made the General Staff Prussiano, than used it in order to plan the war against France, in 1870.

From then the crews they are changed and the war has assumed more complex shapes introducing a series of multiple and complicated aspects that have rendered indispensable, for one corrected simulation, the engagement d.elaboratori electronic.

All this, although fascinating, it does not have null to that to see with the wargame practiced like pastime and historical search; a meant game therefore does not mean to supply alcun.idea in order to formulate war plans or to experience the effects of new types d.arma in simulated conflicts.

The battles are carried out without spilling of blood and with the employment of soldatini of lead or plastic and the only defeats they are the friends " commanders " of the army oppose, in company of which is passed an pleasant afternoon with which ending the evening in front of a beautiful plate of spaghetti.

The wargame it sure constitutes a perfect coupling between the passion for the modelling, the historical interest and the present agonistic spirit in the human mind: its main fascination consists in the possibility that it offers to bring back while still alive made and personages of the alive history under one light and realizes, concurring beyond that to an amusing pastime, a cultural enrichment.

The computer is, for we, a valid adversary against which cimentarsi in hermit, but that it will not be able to never sostituirsi to the game played against a human being, especially when draft to play itself with a beautiful plastic with the possibility to give a look of with to the impreziosito battlefield beautifulst miniature.

Gruppo Murat