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Wargames, Soldiers & Strategy

POINTS ON POINTS

As you may have guessed, I’m not a massive fan of the typical wargames tournament, nor the typical club pick-up game where gamers select their forces to a given points value. Commanders of real armies have rarely had the ability to summon the ideal force needed for the task in hand, but rather they have to deal with their mission with the resources at their disposal. To put it another way, Wellington never asked Napoleon how many points he was bringing to Waterloo …

There will be those who regard list composition as an integral part of their wargaming experience;

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