Pre 1900 War Games

War games have always intrigued me, with their rules in which units move and interact with each other on a board. Growing up the most common war game played was Warhammer. I never had the money nor the time to play the game, but did enjoy reading through friends copies of the rule book. It got me thinking what were some of the earliest books that discussed rules for playing these types of war games. Google book has a amazing breath of subjects and I was able to find a book from 1880 called Strategos, which was well referenced. From those references I was able to locate two additional war gaming books.

Title: Strategos

Date: 1880

Author: Charles Adiel and Lewis Totten

Title:Tactical War Game

Date:1875

Author:General v. Verdy Du Vernois

Translated: J.R. MaCDonell

Date:1884

The Book of the War-Game, is unlike the other books where they only mention the use of dice to determine the out come of a collision between two players. For this book they have a number of tables and use dice to determine the number of men lost per collision. 

Title: Rules For the conduct of the War-Game

Author: War office

Date: 1884

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