(BBC Article) Little Wars: How H G Well created hobby war gaming

[Scrivener of Doom]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22777029

I realise Little Wars is mentioned from time to time but the BBC did a fresh article on this yesterday.

 

[darjr]

To think there was a time before such games. Interesting, thanks for the link!

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

I got Little Wars as a free download via the iBooks store. It's in the public domain, now.

 

[Janx]

Some time in my youth, I invented a war game using plastic toy soldiers, tanks, etc and we played to knock over the soldiers with a foam ball.

Akin to using the spring loaded cannons that Wells had, though I wish I had me some of those...

Good to see great minds think alike

 

[Scrivener of Doom]

Yeah, I've been thinking about those cannon for a while. Now I know why my Corgi (?) cannon used to be able to fire matchsticks!