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KRIEGSSPIEL
1824
VON
REISSWITZ
1
1
K R I E G S S P I E L
Instructions
for
the Representation
of
I
Military Manoeuvres
with the Kriegsspiel Apparatus
B. von Reisswitz
1st Lieutenant
of
the Prussian Army
1 8 2 4
Published
by
Bill Leeson
First published, Berlin 1824.
'Anleitung zur Darstellung militairische
Manover mit dem Apparat des Kriegsspiels'
B. von Reisswitz.
First English Edition
1983.
Second Revised Edition
1989.
Translated and published by Bill Leeson.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Von Reisswitz -Kaderzin und Grabowska, George
Heinrich Leopold, Freiherr,
1795
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1827
Kriegsspiel: Instructions for the representation
of military manoeuvres with the Kriegsspiel
apparatus
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2nd rev. ed.
1.
War games
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Rules
I.
Title
11.
Anleitung zur Darstellung militairische
Manover mit dem Apparat des Kriegsspiels. English
793'0
9
ISBN
1-870341-07-4
1
FOREWORD.
V
The i d e a of r e p r e s e n t i n g
warfare
g r a p h i c a l l y h a s
been t h e o b j e c t of much thought i n both a n c i e n t and
modern times.
Homer's heros played a game
w i t h
f i v e f l a t s t o n e s
t o r e p r e s e n t t h e
small
u n i t s used i n b a t t l e s i n t h o s e
days. The more advanced methods of Rome were t h e
o r i g i n
of
t h e Lusus Latrunculorum, i n which t h e
phalanx of c l o s e o r d e r e d t r o o p s are advanced a g a i n s t
t h e f o r t r e s s
of
t h e enemy. The war c h a r i o t s were a l s o
r e p r e s e n t e d i n Nero's abacus which used amber and
o t h e r p r e c i o u s s t o n e s f o r t h e p i e c e s . From t h e l a n d s
of t h e e a s t t h e
a r t
of
war
i s d e p i c t e d i n t h e
game
invented by t h e Brahmin.
Warfare
i n t h e middle-ages
was
but
l i t t l e
guided
by
a r t
o r s c i e n c e , and t h e man-to-man s t r u g g l e
was
reproduced i n
a
l i v e l y way i n t h e tournament. There
was
l i t t l e
enthusiasm
f o r
i m i t a t i n g t h e s e medieval
b a t t l e s with l i f e l e s s f i g u r e s .
It
was
not u n t i l t h e u s e
of
f i r e a r m s gave
a
new
d i r e c t i o n t o war,and s c i e n c e and s k i l l began t o win
a n important i n f l u e n c e i n b a t t l e , t h a t anyone t r i e d
i n modern times t o r e p r e s e n t t h e movements and
a t t a c k s
of
a modern army.
Most of t h e known i n v e n t o r s
were
concerned mostly
with p l a c i n g t h e p l a y e r i n a p o s i t i o n of supreme
c o n t r o l
?f
f o r c e s , w i t h complete a u t h o r i t y t o c a r r y
o u t a campaign from d e c l a r a t i o n of
war,
m o b i l i z a t i o n ,
marches, supply, b a t t l e , replacement
of
c a s u a l t i e s ,
and peace negotions
a l l
l a y w i t h i n t h e scope of
t h e games. One can understand t h e d i f f i c u l t i e s f a c e d
by t h e s e i n v e n t o r s i f t h e
scale
of s t a t i s t i c a l in-
formation r e q u i r e d i s considered. Few, and o n l y
incomplete t e r r a i n maps had been published, and even
t h o s e , with
a
few
e x c e p t i o n s s u c h , a s t h e
1:10,000
maps of Saxony, d i d n o t g i v e t e r r a i n i n a l a r g e
enough s c a l e t o a l l o w smaller u n i t s
t o
be p r o p e r l y
represented.
Before anyone c o u l d hope t o succeed a g r e a t d e a l
of
p r e p a r a t i o n , i n c l u d i n g t h e i n v e n t i o n of
a
t e r r a i n
on a l a r g e enough
scale
would be necessary.
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