Reply To: First impressions vs sustainability. Are looks more important than rules?

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@wolfiech OnePageRules (used to?) fit on a single page too.

The challenge/problem for wargames is that folk tend to forget that the rules are guidelines and not legally binding contracts.
(or rather … some folk seem to think that writing rules like they were laws solves all of their ‘problems’ both real and imaginary)

I do wonder how many iterations of the chess rules were needed before castling (sp?) and the en-passant (sp?) moves were legalized.

However one advantage chess has is that there’s only one move you can make, so the variations and possible interactions are always limited. Games that don’t use a grid will always have to deal with the fuzzyness if measurements and positioning, which tends to create a lot of extra work if you want to be precise.

@onlyonepinman I can live with that, because it’s a bit too abstract for me. Only argument I’d have is that wargames are always abstract representations of the real thing at some level. I don’t know where that line is myself.