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

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Is there a perfect ruleset No

Can there be a perfect ruleset Probably not .People write rules as they think this is how a period or genre should work and  the rule set they write hopefully portrays that  and if their lucky enough they will find others that agree and maybe they will be published

I know what I like in rulesets in regards to mechanics and scale (not size of figure) others will dislike and vice versa and I can’t see that ever really changing

In regards to randomless rulesets I just don’t like the idea. I’ve played a few over the years and like real warfare the unpredictable can and will happen. On the tabletop even if there is only a 1 in a thousand chance of something happening  the game  rules should reflect that such a thing is possible if highly unlikely