Sound of Drums GmbH

with historical background. The challenge is to find the right way between a game and a simulation. The better the game the worse the simulation and the better the simulation the less well the game will be. We don’t pretend to simulate history. We want to give players the same background to rewrite history without forcing them to repeat history. The design of our games have one thing in common: Decision taking! We don’t use cards, few charts and tables and as little as possible we use dice in our designs. Cards, tables and dice often replace mechanics a designer wasn’t able to create for representing something he wanted to represent in his game. In our wargames we will avoid the extensive use of markers and the number of tables. In all our games we avoid huge numbers of play aids that need to be placed around the map or in front of the players. We want the action on the map and the gamers focused at the action on the map.