Thuloid Speaks: A Secret History of Wargaming, Part I – Prehistory to the Fall of Rome

Greetings, O House. I have not come to you today to shine light upon gaming history. That subject is available in books and articles by the merely qualified. I have not read those books, nor done any research of my own, and so am not qualified in the least. Rather, I have come to disclose (one might say apocalypse, from the Greek ἀποκαλύπτω, to disclose or reveal) a mystery, hidden for long ages