{"id":6491,"date":"2014-06-03T10:01:43","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T10:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=6491"},"modified":"2025-08-20T21:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T21:39:11","slug":"kriegsspiel-1914","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/kriegsspiel-1914\/","title":{"rendered":"Kriegsspiel 1914"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcl.ac.uk\/sspp\/departments\/warstudies\/events\/eventsrecords\/kriegsspiel.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kriegsspiel 1914<\/a>:\u00a0\u00a0 A war game re-enactment of the battles between German and Allied (French, Belgian, BEF) forces on the Western Front between late August and late September 1914, organized by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcl.ac.uk\/sspp\/departments\/warstudies\/people\/professors\/sabin\/index.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Philip Sabin<\/a> of the War Studies Department at King&#8217;s College London.\u00a0\u00a0 Our team comprised Evan Sterling, Nicholas Reynolds and myself, and played as Germany. \u00a0We beat the Allies, capturing more territory than Germany had captured in actuality in 1914.\u00a0 In other words, we not only beat the Allies, we beat History.<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>The photo shows the final placement of German forces (black boxes) after 6 rounds of fighting, with the yellow boxes showing territory held by Germany.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cells without yellow boxes are held by the Allies.\u00a0 This was immense fun. \u00a0 (Photo credit:\u00a0 Nicholas Reynolds.)<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Kriegsspiel1914-30May2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6492\" src=\"https:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Kriegsspiel1914-30May2014-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Kriegsspiel1914-30May2014\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kriegsspiel 1914:\u00a0\u00a0 A war game re-enactment of the battles between German and Allied (French, Belgian, BEF) forces on the Western Front between late August and late September 1914, organized by Philip Sabin of the War Studies Department at King&#8217;s College London.\u00a0\u00a0 Our team comprised Evan Sterling, Nicholas Reynolds and myself, and played as Germany. \u00a0We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,64,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-politics","category-uncertainty","p1","y2014","m06","d03","h10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6491"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14024,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6491\/revisions\/14024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}