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Reply To: Why don’t we already have the perfect wargame?

February 11, 2021 at 11:20 pm #1609866

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If you want to make a perfect anything you have to define what perfect is. I can’t really think of anything that could be described as perfect beyond simple shapes (i.e. A perfect circle or a perfect sphere). Generally speaking unless you can define something mathematically it’s really hard to classify it as perfect.

So why don’t we have a perfect wargame? Because we don’t actually have a mathematical definition of what a wargame is or what it should do. And were we to try and create that definition, we would all draw different conclusions. So the best we could ever hope to achieve is the perfect wargame for ourselves – something that probably does exist if you go and look for it, or at least something very close