While I said I was not a war gamer, I did not mean to imply that I have never participated in them. I have done so, if you consider map exercises, and tactical exercises without troops to be war games. Of those I prefer those conducted on a operational level (division and above) such as Operation Jayhawk, that is or was once conducted at USCG&SC at Leavenworth. No disrespect intended but for me war is much to serious an endeavor to be thought of or played as a game for entertainment, although I must say, like chess, it stimulates the mind playing against a live thinking opponent.