Game of War was a 1997 Channel 4 television series presented by Angela Rippon. In each episode, military officers and historians played a wargameCaffrey. On Wargaming: How Wargames Have Shaped History and how They May Shape the Future. Naval War College Press. p 168. based on, in particular, Strategos.Arthur Harman. "Better Balaclava". Miniature Wargames. (Warners Group Publications plc). January 2024. p 44 at p 48. See also p 49. The wargames analyst was Iain Dickie.Robert Nott. "Fast Knights". Military Illustrated. (Publishing News Ltd, ISSN 0268-8328). Number 116: January 1998. p 12.See the end credits of episodes 2 and 3 The umpires were Paddy Griffith and Arthur Harman.Robert Nott. "Fast Knights". Military Illustrated. (Publishing News Ltd, ISSN 0268-8328). Number 121: June 1998. p 31.

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).Matthew Bond. "Engaging enough, if you know the rules". The Times. 4 August 1997. p 43.Biography in A & C Black's "Who Was Who"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. Episode 2 was broadcast on Sunday 10 August 1997. The wargame was the Battle of Naseby.Thomas Sutcliffe. "Last Night". The Independent. 11 August 1997. The wargame was played by Thomas Boyd-Carpenter and Julian Thompson.Long Eaton Advertiser. (Derbyshire, England). 7 August 1997. p 8. Episode 3 was broadcast on Sunday 17 August 1997.David Aaronovitch. "Television: Bliss was it in that Dawn to be alive". The Independent. 16 August 1997. The wargame was the Battle of Waterloo. The wargame was played by Anthony Farrar-Hockley and John Kiszely.Long Eaton Advertiser. (Derbyshire, England). 14 August 1997. p 8.

Reception Rees called the series "gimmicky".Jasper Rees. "He is the very model of a modern TV historian". The Independent. 3 December 1997. Dunkley complained that the wargames were played with something that resembled the layout for a Hornby Dublo model railway set.Christopher Dunkley. "The midsummer blues" in "Television". The Financial Times. 20 August 1997. p 7.

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

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