tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6933470253715910366.post6663921729278792655..comments2024-03-29T11:57:40.881+00:00Comments on Wargaming Miscellany: Polemos: Who was Lt.-Col. G.J.R. Glünicke?Robert (Bob) Corderyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13109130990434792266noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6933470253715910366.post-41294977730834513542011-04-02T23:51:28.160+01:002011-04-02T23:51:28.160+01:00MSFoy,
Although I never try to 'guess' wh...MSFoy,<br /><br />Although I never try to 'guess' where my researches will take me, your hypothesis is certainly one that has possibilities.<br /><br />What I need to find is some link between Glunicke and Griffith before their families are living in the same street in Bedford. So it will mean a trawl through the census returns looking for where Glunicke and his family lived before 1901.<br /><br />The games afoot!<br /><br />All the best,<br /><br />BobRobert (Bob) Corderyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13109130990434792266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6933470253715910366.post-30423079861485792902011-04-02T23:10:38.966+01:002011-04-02T23:10:38.966+01:00I am not going to guess what happens next, and I d...I am not going to guess what happens next, and I don't know how the dates line up with the publication of the game, but it does seem to me that if Glunicke and Griffith jointly invented Polemos, Glunicke provided the military input. Further, as ex-Offizierkorps, he will have had a background of Kriegsspiel and so on, which might well be an ancestor of the game. <br /><br />That was an example of me NOT guessing what happens next, by the way....<br /><br />Fun, this, isn't it?<br /><br />TonyMSFoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14470241067504971068noreply@blogger.com