THE BRITISH ARMY DESERT WAR GAME: MoD Wargaming Rules (1978)

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This example of a military map based wargame was written in 1968 to wargame, at a tactical level, the desert warfare battles in a potential invasion of Iraq in the mid-1970's. Written both for training and analysis, they have detailed information on matters important to the military and often ignored by hobby wargamers: Deployment times, lead times for preparation of assaults, ammunition constraints, shadowing retreating units and communications are all dealt with by the rules. Includes unit-based combat results and individual vehicle fire combat tables.

Military wargames are traditional heavily umpired, with a large supporting case of assistants to help run the game, but this book contains guidance on how a modern wargamer can recreate the original game in a practical form on a single map. These wargaming rules were restricted until recently, when they were released into the National Archives.