Modern strategy games for leisure can be traced back to actual militaries or hardcore history buffs—systems that would try to model morale etc., often to a degr

Modern strategy games for leisure can be traced back to actual militaries or hardcore history buffs—systems that would try to model morale etc., often to a degree which, er, doesn't have mass-market appeal. :p https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriegsspiel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriegsspiel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chainmail_(game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chainmail_(game)