Reply To: Non random wargames

[Jerboa]

Whirlwind wrote:

Jerboa wrote:

Sabins’s games, known from SOA, use dice. Both Stratego (have a copy somewhere) and Lost Battles are listed in BGG within the dice mechanism category.

Shaun Travers is perfectly correct: Phalanx can be played without dice. From the blurb at the beginning of the version published in Wargames Illustrated 087: “Phalanx is rather like a cross between DBA and Chess. It may even be played entirely without dice if players want a pure contest of skill, though most people will prefer to include the element of chance to reflect the unpredictability of ancient battles…”

You are both right.
In fact I had written Stratego and that is the boardgame, it should be Strategos.
Phalanx do qualify as a non random game perfectly, must buy one copy. I suspect of a deterministic mechanism, maybe with predictable outcomes, no written orders, plus it predates Centurion (1993 to 1995).

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