Welcome back to another weekly blog post, last week I talked about the new project we started, and this week I’m going to talk about what we’ve done since then. The first thing is something we did in class, which was looking at WW2 history and researching some terms. I already knew quite a bit about WW2, but the videos were really informative and I learned a lot, for example I didn’t know that there was a battle for Denmark. The terms also helped me learn about a few other events, like the Enabling Act which basically let Hitler do whatever he wanted with Germany.

The second thing we did was basically a bunch of research on our topic, and mine is wargaming. So I researched some earlier wargames and I found some pretty interesting stuff. Apparently the Prussian military used a wargame called Kriegsspiel to train officers, and H.G. Wells (Yes, that H.G. Wells) made a wargame called little wars. I even looked at the early days of Warhammer 40,000.

It was called Rogue Trader back then, and it was kind of weird. But it changed over 9 editions into the Warhammer 40,000 that people play today. That’s pretty much what I did this week, but the project is ongoing and I’ll make sure to keep you updated with these weekly posts, so stay tuned.