Zones of control : perspectives on wargaming / edited by Pat Harrigan and Matthew G. Kirschenbaum ; foreword by James F. Dunnigan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harrigan, Pat, editor.

Kirschenbaum, Matthew G., editor.

Series:

Game histories

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War games--History.

War games.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxxviii, 806 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2016]

Contents:

Foreword: the paper time machine goes electric / James F. Dunnigan

Part I. Paper wars

A game out of all proportions: how a hobby miniaturized war / Jon Peterson

The history of wargaming project / John Curry

The fundamental gap between tabletop simulation games and the truth / Tetsuya Nakamura

Fleet admiral: tracing one element in the evolution of a game design / Jack Greene

The wild blue yonder: representing air warfare in games / Lee Brimmicombe-Wood

Historical aesthetics in mapmaking / Mark Mahaffey

The "I" in team: war and combat in tabletop role-playing games / A. Scott Glancy

Part II. War engines

War engines: wargames as systems from the tabletop to the computer / Henry Lowood

The engine of wargaming / Matthew B. Caffrey, Jr

Design for effect: the common language of advanced squad leader / J.R. Tracy

Combat commander: time to throw your plan away / John A. Foley

Empire of the sun: the next evolution of the card-driven game engine / Mark Herman

The paths of glory lead but to the gaming table / Ted S. Raicer

A new kind of history: the culture of wargame scenario design communities / Troy Goodfellow

Part III. Operations

Operations research, systems analysis, and wargaming: riding the cycle of research / Peter P. Perla

The application of statistical and forensics validation to simulation modeling in wargames / Brien J. Miller

Goal-driven design and napoleon's triumph / Rachel Simmons

Harpoon: an original serious game / Don R. Gilman

The development and application of the real-time air power wargame simulation modern air power / John Tiller and Catherine Cavagnaro

Red vs. blue / Thomas C. Schelling

Hypergaming / Russell Vane

Part IV. The bleeding edge

Wargaming futures: naturalizing the new American way of war / Luke Caldwell and Tim Lenoir

Creating persian incursion / Larry Bond

Modeling the Second Battle of Fallujah / Laurent Closier

Playing with toy soldiers: authenticity and metagaming in WWI video games / Andrew Wackerfuss

America's army / Marcus Schulzke

We the soldiers: player complicity and ethical gameplay in call of duty: modern warfare / Miguel Sicart

Upending militarized masculinity in spec ops: the line / Soraya Murray

Part V. Systems and situations

Wargames as writing systems / Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi

Playing defense: gender, just war, and game design / Elizabeth Losh

Debord's nostalgic algorithm / Alexander R. Galloway

The Ludic Science Club crosses the Berezina / Richard Barbrook

War games / David Levinthal

Troubling the magic circle: miniature war in Iraq / Brian Conley

Part VI. The war room

Wargames as an academic instrument / Philip Sabin

Lessons from the hexagon: wargames and the military historian / Robert M. Citino

Simulation literacy: the case for wargames in the history classroom / Rob MacDougall and Lisa Faden

The amateur designer: for fun and profit / Charles Vasey

Struggling with deep play: utilizing twilight struggle for historical inquiry / Jeremy Antley

Model-driven military wargame design and evaluation / Alexander H. Levis and Robert J. Elder

Part VII. Irregularities

Gaming the non-kinetic / Rex Brynen

Inhabited models and irregular warfare games: an approach to educational and analytical gaming at the US Department of Defense / Elizabeth M. Bartels

Chess, go, and Vietnam: gaming modern insurgency / Brian Train and Volko Ruhnke

Irregular warfare: the Kobayashi Maru of the wargaming world / Yuna Huh Wong

A mighty fortress is our God: when military action meets religious strife / Ed Beach

Cultural wargaming: understanding cross-cultural communications using wargames / James Wallman

Part VIII. Other theaters

Wargaming (as) literature / Esther MacCallum-Stewart

Tristram Shandy: Toby and Trim's wargames and the bowling-green / Bill McDonald

Third Reich and the Third Reich / John Prados

How star fleet battles happened / Stephen V. Cole

Total global domination: games workshop and warhammer 40,000 / Ian Sturrock and James Wallis

When the drums begin to roll / Larry Brom

War recreated: twentieth-century war reenactors and the private event / Jenny Thompson

Part IX. Fight the future

War, mathematics and simulation: drones and (losing) control of battlespace / Patrick Crogan

How to sell wargames to the non-wargamer / Michael Peck

Wargaming the cyber frontier / Joseph Miranda

The unfulfilled promise of digital wargames / Greg Costikyan

Civilian casualties: shifting perspective in this war of mine / Kacper Kwiatkowski

Practicing a new wargame / Mary Flanagan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 711-771) and index.

ISBN:

9780262033992

0262033992

OCLC:

936684796