Which one you choose depends on where you draw the line between abstract games like Chess and full-fledged wargames. My personal choice is Opiz (dice and CRT!) but Vinturinus is a good choice too. Attempts to find earlier precursors produced a few 16th century titles, but it’s unconvincing [2/x]
Kriegsspiel (i1824) considered to be the first modern, by convention more than by consensus - scholarly works as far back as 1966 (the furthest one I checked) mention earlier wargames, with the consensus being distributed between Holwig’s game (1780), Vinturinus’ (1795) and Opiz (1806) [1/x]
One title that has been surprisingly ignored is the Tactical Kriegspiel (1812), by Reisswitz Sr, father of the Reisswitz designed Kriegsspiel (1824). It was a popular game in courts (both Prussia and Russia), but was not used by the Prussian Army to train its officer, so less relevant [3/x]
Underreported impact of AI in office: I connect late in the evening to burn one more “refresh” of tokens… but then I leave earlier in the day because what am I gonna do late afternoon without tokens :).
And yes I could buy a new account or extra tokens, but haven’t passed that threshold yet.