Hellwig's tactical wargame (forerunner of Kriegsspiel)
Juego de guerra táctico de Hellwig (precursor del Kriegsspiel)
- Date
- 1780 · confidence high
- Place
- Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, Germany
- Credited to
- Johann Christian Ludwig Hellwig
- Field
- Tools
What it is
Hellwig, a teacher in Braunschweig whose students were aristocrats destined for military service, published a tactical simulation game on an enlarged chess-like grid, with colour-coded squares representing different terrain, designed to teach military principles.
Not to be confused with Reisswitz's Kriegsspiel (1824), a different system based on real maps rather than grids, which was the one officially adopted by the Prussian army.
What it led to
- Georg von Reisswitz's Kriegsspiel (1824), adopted by the Prussian General Staff
- The modern tradition of military simulation wargames
Made possible
- Reisswitz's Kriegsspiel