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Title: Oh really?
Review: This utterly straight-faced presentation features an intelligent grown man (Wells) laying out incredibly detailed rules for playing with tin (or lead) soldiers. Against another grown man. With a blow-by-blow account of one particularly thrilling episode of tin soldier vs. tin soldier - it goes on for pages.I would dismiss this as mental aberration, except thatA) Wells really was intelligent and insightful, so it can't be brushed off as easily as I'd like, andB) I've seen model railroaders make far greater investments of time and wealth in their little make-believe worlds, andC) However elaborate Wells's rules might be, they're bare shadows of multi-hundred-page rulebooks of so many current fantasy games.Like it or not, understand it or not, imagine any earthly purpose or not, you have to admit that "Little Wars" has a prescience at least as creepy as some of Wells's better-known predictions.--wiredweird, reviewing a version available at no cost on the web, and worth every penny
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