Kriegsspiel! How Napoleon Accidentally Invented Strategy Games

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04:54 Strategy Games from Antiquity
15:50 Chess, and why it was politically ever-present
24:46 Kreigsspiel, Hellwig's version
31:53 Napoleon providing gaming with maps
37:02 Napoleon providing gaming with stats
45:43 Napoleon providing gaming with complex settings
50:07 Playing Napoleonic Kriegsspiel by Discord
01:02:11 Reisswitz Jr. (1820's) to HG Wells' Little Wars (1900's)
01:09:04 The World Wars' influence on strategy gaming
01:20:54 Early real-time strategy games
01:34:39 Call to Action

Bibliography:
"Playing at the World: A History of Simulating Wars, People and Fantastic Adventures, from Chess to Role-Playing Games" by Jon Peterson https://playingattheworld.blogspot.com/
"The von Reisswitz Kriegsspiel" (1824, modern "Too Fat Lardies" copy)
"Die Auftritte des Krieges sinnlich machen" by Rolf F. Nohr und Stefan Böhme
"Napoleon: A Life" by Andrew Roberts
"The Age of Napoleon" podcast by E.M. Rummage https://ageofnapoleon.com/
"Revolutions" podcast by Mike Duncan https://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/...
"Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Complete" by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
"Napoleon's Maxims Of War" by Napoleon Bonaparte
"Muslims and Citizens: Islam, Politics, and the French Revolution" by Ian Coller