European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 31, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes Page 7 ii or games9 played % the books Here ahem Elm /al9ki jul a i t Juke a what s next like a director on a movie set capt. Benjamin d. King looks Over his miniature Village and a world War ii tank Unitas he ponders the next move. Wackenheim Germany special to most soldiers the term War games Means a steel pot and web gear and head out to the Field for a pre planned exercise. However to an officer of1st in 81st arty the term re fers to the systematic Competition Between two teams engaging in tactical warfare through these of scaled miniatures. Capt. Benjamin d. King assistant installation coordinator plays such War games. According to King War game originated in the late 19th Cen Tury with the general staff of the prussian army. The War game was a tactical exercise Ona map for the planning of actual War 1906, h. G. Wells published his Book Little wars in which he set Down rules by which a Novice could fight his own Little wars by using miniature soldiers and artillery pieces. Wells game went so far As to allow for mass destruction using cannons which fired wooden pellets. King pointed put that the War game has remained a useful tac tical device through the 20th Cen Tury. He recounted the example of the japanese staff s enact ment of the Battle of Midway islands in 1942, months prior tothe engagement. The results of the game very closely paralleled the actual outcome in which the japanese Navy was Defeated. Through years of research King has sophisticated the rules and combined the techniques of War games As played in the last Century. I am now Able to stage Warsaw they would or could have been fought during any time in history he said. Often Timea major historical Battle can be recreated for example Waterloo with a completely different outcome due to a slight change in tactics he added. Basically King s Conception othe War games consists of two teams usually with two or three members each and an Umpire staff. The teams and the Umpire staff Are each in separate rooms with identical maps. The Umpire presents each team with a secret objective Foi example seizing a City. The to
