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[-] crawley@lemmy.world 50 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Fun fact! The concept of "hit points" were originally developed by military wargames, and were defined as the number of 14-inch shell hits a vessel could survive.

Every living creature has 1hp!

Source is BDG

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago

Think the military would let me join just to play the strategy games?

I don't want to do any fighting.

[-] psmgx@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

Yes. Lots of defense contractor rules running the simulation software and doing programming related to it. Actually playing the game is a different story, and would be mostly restricted to officers, former officers turned contractors, and the odd PhD civilian working for them.

Otherwise just get EUIV and go to town.

[-] DoomBot5@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Point and click at enemies on the screen. Just don't think about how they are actually alive.

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

That's what I do in xcom

[-] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

You could always just play wargames as a civilian

Go for Bolt Action if you're not into sci-fi or fantasy. Bonus: the guys at the game store playing Bolt Action are almost universally grumpy old grognards

[-] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

But... the only way to win at WarGames is to not play...

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