Page "Wargaming" Paragraph 10

Drawing inspiration from Chess, Hellwig, Master of Pages to the Duke of Brunswick created a battle emulation game in 1780.

According to Max Boot's book War Made New ( 2006, pg 122 ), sometime between 1803 and 1809, the Prussian General Staff developed war games, with staff officers moving metal pieces around on a game table ( with blue pieces representing their forces and red pieces those of the enemy ), using dice rolls to indicate random chance and with a referee scoring the results.

Increasingly realistic variations became part of military training in the 19th century in many nations, and were called " kriegspiel " or " wargames ".

Wargames or military exercises are still an important part of military training today.