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Welcome to Kriegsspiel News |
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Written by Web Master
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Welcome to our website dedicated to Kriegsspiel, the original military training game devised by Georg von Reisswitz and adopted by the Prussian Army, and other wargames based upon its principles such as Free Kriegsspiels, which are umpire moderated map games without formal rules. |
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Written by Web Master
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Together with their other excellent Kriegsspiel rules and materials, the 1:7500 scale map of the Koniggratz battlefield based on the 1866 Prussian Army survey is now available from Two Fat Lardies.
The map is in full colour and consists of 44 A3 pages in all, printed on high quality art paper. Forty A4 pages make up the detailed map of the battlefield which are sold with a two page full colour smaller map and a single page black and white map.
They have also included an article about an 1862 Kreigsspiel rule variant for the Austro-Prussian War with details for Austrian forces to field against the Prussians in their Summer Special.
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Fere Champenoise – withdrawing from contact |
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Written by Paddy Griffith
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Paddy Griffith discusses the two combats of Fere Champenoise which occured in the the 1814 campaign in France. In both cases the heavily outnumbered French infantry, threatened by Allied cavalry and artillery, were forced to retreat under fire. |
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The Basic Kriegsspiel Idea |
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Written by Bill Leeson
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Kriegsspiel, of course, simply means Wargame. But wargames take so many different forms today from computer games to paint ball shooting that I think it is useful to retain the Kriegsspiel description for games which fall into a certain type so that we may know what we are talking about. |
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Written by Bill Leeson
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In this article the equipment needed to play a von Reisswitz kriegsspiel is discussed. |
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Origins of the Kriegsspiel |
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Written by Bill Leeson
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The Kriegsspiel, or war-game was invented in the first years of the 19th century by Baron von Reisswitz, a civil administrator of some kind with an interest in military history. |
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