• crawley@lemmy.world
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    Fun fact! The concept of “hit points” were originally developed by military wargames, and were defined as the number of 14-inch shell hits a vessel could survive.

    Every living creature has 1hp!

    Source is BDG

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        Yes. Lots of defense contractor rules running the simulation software and doing programming related to it. Actually playing the game is a different story, and would be mostly restricted to officers, former officers turned contractors, and the odd PhD civilian working for them.

        Otherwise just get EUIV and go to town.

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        Point and click at enemies on the screen. Just don’t think about how they are actually alive.

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        You could always just play wargames as a civilian

        Go for Bolt Action if you’re not into sci-fi or fantasy. Bonus: the guys at the game store playing Bolt Action are almost universally grumpy old grognards