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''The Sword and The Flame'' is a wargame based on British colonial wars (in particular, the Anglo-Zulu War) and, more generally, a set of rules applied to a variety of wargames. These rules for playing colonial wargames were first drafted by Larry Brom in 1978. The rules have gone through several revisions, but still have the same basic characteristics that they had when first written. ==Design Concepts== When Larry drafted the original set of ''The Sword and The Flame'' rules (usually referred to as ''TSATF'') he had 5 main objectives.〔('The Sword and the Flame'- Birth of the Rules )〕 These were: * Enjoyment: in that the game itself was oriented more to being fun than as an accurate historical simulation * Playability: a reference to the fact that some rulesets are noted for the complexity of their phrasing and the minutiae of their amendments; Larry favoured simple rules * Drama: Larry wanted to ensure that every game had a chance of being won by either side, and that a player could not exactly predict an opposing player's movement distance. * Excitement: linked to the idea of drama, but Larry also wanted to ensure that both sides were involved in all stages of the action. Larry's system of resolving combat by matching off opposing models rather than calculating a mêlée en masse was intended to achieve this.〔 * Historical Flavour: the game should appear to be what happened in the time being simulated although it would not seek to be an exact recreation—in ''TSATF'' both sides have an equal chance of winning, whereas in history the colonial power was usually dominant over the indigenous population. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Sword and The Flame」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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