Wargaming is older than you might think. If you have ever played chess, you’ve played an ancient and highly abstract wargame. Other, more recently-produced wargames are more attentive to the specifics of the battlefield, and just about every period from ancient to modern has been turned into a game of one kind or another. The question arises: How much of a “game” is a wargame supposed to be, and how much instead is it to be a simulation of actual events? That was one of the many questions that the gentlemen-scholars of the Ancient Warfare Magazine podcast and I tackled in the latest episode. Give it a listen and see if you agree with our conclusions!