Justin du Coeur<p>For fans of <a href="https://social.coop/tags/BoardGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoardGames</span></a>, <a href="https://social.coop/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a>, or preferably both: <a href="https://screentop.gg/@thewhaleshark/metromachy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">screentop.gg/@thewhaleshark/me</span><span class="invisible">tromachy</span></a></p><p>This is the realization of a project I started decades ago, when I transcribed "Metromachia”, a Renaissance Latin book describing, as far as I can tell, the first “war game" in the modern sense. A friend translated it into English, and recently another reconstructed the game and built a software implementation.</p><p>No clue if the game is good, but it's very neat historically -- check it out!</p><p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/SCA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCA</span></a></p>