noun A game in which blocks representing bodies of soldiers are moved on a map: designed to illustrate the art of war.
noun A game designed to teach the principles of strategy and tactics.
Once, on a three-months 'reaction-drive voyage from Yggdrasill to Loki, he had taught a couple of professors of extraterrestrial zoology to play kriegspiel, and before the end of the trip, he was being horrified by the callous disregard they showed for casualties.
Once, on a three-months 'reaction-drive voyage from Yggdrasill to Loki, he had taught a couple of professors of extraterrestrial zoology to play _kriegspiel_, and before the end of the trip, he was being horrified by the callous disregard they showed for casualties.
More modern examples, in Germany in 1812, the kriegspiel (war game) was developed by the Prussian army.
a military position as a player of kriegspiel could wish to have submitted to him.