Talk:Patrol (board game)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 19:28, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

First!

There is common understanding that Sniper/Patrol were the first skirmish-level hex and counter wargames. Unreliable sources say this, and I am at a loss what other game at this scale came before. . As such it's an important part of the history of wargaming. I don't think it can be asserted without a reliable source. Early reviews might mention it. -- GreenC 03:40, 20 May 2021 (UTC)

BTW "skirmish" is different from "tactical", the former is individual oriented the later squad and platoon. -- GreenC 03:41, 20 May 2021 (UTC)

Cool. :) Guinness323, did anything like that come up in the sources you found? BOZ (talk) 03:58, 20 May 2021 (UTC)

I don't remember reading a specific "this is the first...", but I'll have to re-read them all to make sure.Guinness323 (talk) 06:08, 20 May 2021 (UTC)

Another quick scan of the interwebs confirms this fact (as it applies to Sniper!) on The Tactical Wargamer. More significant for Sniper!, since it was published first, but I dropped it into this article's Publication history, since it mentions Sniper! as a predecessor.Guinness323 (talk) 06:35, 20 May 2021 (UTC)

Hey User:PamD and User:Hobit, you voted to Keep this one at AFD way back in 2013, and look what we managed to do. :) Armageddon: Tactical Combat, 3000-500 BC is at draft awaiting AFC review now, so hopefully that passes as well! BOZ (talk) 20:47, 20 May 2021 (UTC)