A Game of War

London based group, Class Wargames have reproduced A Game of War and taken it on a campaign around the globe, at Belo Horizonte, pictured above, St. Petersburg and a variety of other locations.

[2] The basics of the game are close to those of chess, in that it is based on war and the strategy that surrounds it.

Attacking is decided by summing all the offensive power in the range of an enemy target square.

[4] When making the game Guy Debord said there were only three things that stopped his game from being 100% accurate and those were climate conditions and the cycles of day and night; the influence of troop morale; and uncertainty about the exact positions and movements of the enemy.

The game and book of the same name did not receive much success but a copy can still be bought today.