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2 unusual facts about Little Wars


Little War

Little Wars, an early table top war game, invented by author H. G. Wells

Michael O. Varhola

Varhola published and wrote introductions to editions of H.G. Wells' Little Wars (2004) and Floor Games (2006) and Robert Louis Stevenson's Stevenson at Play.


Avalon Hill

This sort of game was relatively well-known, as H. G. Wells had written a set of rules called Little Wars early in the 20th century, but it had used miniature figures and modeled 3D-terrain, like that later found in model railroading, and the situations represented were small-scale skirmishes between handfuls of soldiers.


see also

Edward Bruce Hamley

Byron Farwell, "Queen Victoria's little wars", Wordsworth Editions, ISBN 1-84022-216-6