Chinese Wargaming

Hi,

Some articles make you check the date - yup, we're in 2008

http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htlead/articles/20080512.aspx

Greetz,

Eddy Sterckx

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> Hi,
>
> Some articles make you check the date - yup, we're in 2008
>
> http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htlead/articles/20080512.aspx
>
> Greetz,

Quote from the article:

"Wargaming systems like this were first used by the American military in the
1970s, and the export of such devices, even the ones commercially available
(in book stores, alongside books on military history and current affairs),
was illegal. The FBI conducted an investigation of illegal export of these
commercial wargames in the late 1970s."

??? In the '70s we had Avalon Hill ITALY (yup, I'm not joking) that
translated and distributed AH games over here. I don't know who distributed
SPI, but we had SPI games, too, fully translated. And not only the manual:
I'm talking about maps, tables, cards... Something unheard of even for
videogames until the '90s.