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

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There’s a phrase I have used quite often with people asking questions like this. I’m sure I nicked it from somewhere…but I don’t remember where. Simply put, ‘a perfect compromise pleases no one’. There was a project (I think in the U.S. air force) to make a ‘one size fits all’ ejector seats using the average measurements of all (or most) of the serving pilots. Mathematically it sort of makes sense, but they discovered that no one in the air force fit properly in this new seat. Diversity is the spice of life, as they say, and while I love bacon sandwiches, I wouldn’t want them for every meal. War gaming is the same. Think about applying the same question to minis rather than rule sets; what is the perfect mini? I think we all agree there is no ‘real’ answer there beyond what is perfect to ourselves.

 

This is probably the longest collection of cliches I have written in a long time…