Gaming Glossary

A game is referred to as a sandbox or sandboxy when it gives you a starting position and then lets you do as you wish. It's opposite is a scripted game which is one where you are forced in a greater or lesser degree to follow historical decisions

Wargaming generally comes in three main scales: tactical, operational, and strategic. There are no cut and dried rules about these scales, and sometimes they mean slightly different things to different people, but what they mainly refer to is how

scale. Literally, the number of miles or kilometers represented by the width of a single hex on the game map. More loosely, a game will be characterized as being a certain scale depending upon the size of the military origination represented by a

A game is scripted when it forces you to make the same strategic choices the historical leaders made. It's opposite is sandbox, where you are given a starting point and then can do whatever you like. These are not fixed poles and most games fit

Originally from ASL, skulking refers to a defensive tactic where you move a unit out of LOS of your opponent in the Movement Phase (thereby denied them a shot at you), and then advancing them back into LOS in the Advance Phase so they are ready to

An entry-level series of games from MMP that use the same basic rules

The most zoomed out scale are strategic games. An easy rule of thumb to know if you’re playing a strategic game is to check and see if you’re playing an entire country. Strategic games often simulate a whole war or at least a complete theatre. Think