Game of War

Not to be confused with Game of War: Fire Age, A Game of War, or War Game.

Game of War
Presented by	Angela Rippon
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	3
Original release
Network	Channel 4
Release	3 August (1997-08-03) – 17 August 1997 (1997-08-17)

Game of War was a 1997 Channel 4 television series presented by Angela Rippon. In each episode, military officers and historians played a wargame ^[1] based on, in particular, Strategos . ^[2] The wargames analyst was Iain Dickie. ^{[3] [4]} The umpires were Paddy Griffith and Arthur Harman. ^[5]

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). ^{[6] [7] [8]}
• Episode 2 was broadcast on Sunday 10 August 1997. The wargame was the Battle of Naseby. ^[9] The wargame was played by Thomas Boyd-Carpenter and Julian Thompson. ^[10]
• Episode 3 was broadcast on Sunday 17 August 1997. ^[11] The wargame was the Battle of Waterloo. The wargame was played by Anthony Farrar-Hockley ^[5] and John Kiszely. ^[12]

Reception

Rees called the series "gimmicky". ^[13] Dunkley complained that the wargames were played with something that resembled the layout for a Hornby Dublo model railway set. ^[14]

See also

• Battleground (1978 TV series)

References

• David Stubbs. "Game of War" in "A mug's game". The Guardian. 29 August 2009.
• Max Davidson. The Observer. 3 August 1997. Newspapers.com
• The Guardian. "The Week" supplement. 2 August 1997. Newspapers.com
• The Guardian. 4 August 1997. Newspapers.com

1. Caffrey. On Wargaming: How Wargames Have Shaped History and how They May Shape the Future. Naval War College Press. p 168.
2. Arthur Harman. "Better Balaclava". Miniature Wargames. (Warners Group Publications plc). January 2024. p 44 at p 48. See also p 49.
3. Robert Nott. "Fast Knights". Military Illustrated. (Publishing News Ltd, ISSN 0268-8328). Number 116: January 1998. p 12.
4. See the end credits of episodes 2 and 3
5. Robert Nott. "Fast Knights". Military Illustrated. (Publishing News Ltd, ISSN 0268-8328). Number 121: June 1998. p 31.
6. Matthew Bond. "Engaging enough, if you know the rules". The Times. 4 August 1997. p 43.
7. Biography in A & C Black's "Who Was Who"
8. For other reviews of this episode, see Jasper Rees, "I fear the Greeks baring breasts", The Independent Long Weekend, print 9 August 1997, p 27; and Gerard Gilbert, "Today's Television", The Independent, 1 August 1997.
9. Thomas Sutcliffe. "Last Night". The Independent. 11 August 1997.
10. Long Eaton Advertiser. (Derbyshire, England). 7 August 1997. p 8.
11. David Aaronovitch. "Television: Bliss was it in that Dawn to be alive". The Independent. 16 August 1997.
12. Long Eaton Advertiser. (Derbyshire, England). 14 August 1997. p 8.
13. Jasper Rees. "He is the very model of a modern TV historian". The Independent. 3 December 1997.
14. Christopher Dunkley. "The midsummer blues" in "Television". The Financial Times. 20 August 1997. p 7.

External links

• Game of War at IMDb