Game of War
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Game of War was a 1997 Channel 4 television series presented by Angela Rippon. In each episode, military officers and historians played a wargame based on, in particular, Strategos. The wargames analyst was Iain Dickie. The umpires were Paddy Griffith and Arthur Harman.
Episodes
- Episode 1 was broadcast on Sunday 3 August 1997. The wargame was the Battle of Balaclava. The wargame was played by Richard Swinburn and Major General Anthony George Clifford Jones (1923-1999).
- Episode 2 was broadcast on Sunday 10 August 1997. The wargame was the Battle of Naseby. The wargame was played by Thomas Boyd-Carpenter and Julian Thompson.
- Episode 3 was broadcast on Sunday 17 August 1997. The wargame was the Battle of Waterloo. The wargame was played by Anthony Farrar-Hockley and John Kiszely.
Reception
Rees called the series "gimmicky". Dunkley complained that the wargames were played with something that resembled the layout for a Hornby Dublo model railway set.
See also
- David Stubbs. "Game of War" in . The Guardian. 29 August 2009.
- Max Davidson. The Observer. 3 August 1997.
- The Guardian. "The Week" supplement. 2 August 1997.
- The Guardian. 4 August 1997.
External links
- at IMDb