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

February 12, 2021 at 12:20 pm #1610047

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@timchubb it’s not so much that something is mathematically perfect, it’s more that if you can define it mathematically then you can probably achieve a level of perfection in that you can prove that it does all of the things that it is supposed to do – you basically use a formal method of specifying requirements. However you would be left with the argument of whether those requirements themselves represent a perfect example of a game. Unless we actually have a universal definition of what a game is and what it must do we can’t ever really say that a game is perfect. And can we all agree on what a perfect wargame is? Answers on a postcard…

@blinky465 I think your definition of a perfect wargame sort of shows why we don’t have a perfect wargame – you opened with “For me”. Those two words change the question completely. It changes from why doesn’t THE perfect wargame exist to why doesn’t MY perfect wargame exist.