- Title: A Game Of War
- Date: 3rd August 1997
- Summary: Today's generals re-fight great historical battles across a computerised sandpit. The challenge is to take a fascinating slice of history and to see how today's brains and knowledge could have affected a different outcome. The 'wargaming' table upon which the battles are fought have the usual miniature military figurines etc, but it will be seen by the viewer as a 3D computer generated 'virtual battlefield'. The generals will stand on either side of the battlefield and survey the situation as if it were a giant chess board, but this is chess with attitude! To include: 1815: Waterloo Wellington and Napoleon, the outcome could change the course of history. If Napoleon had won, would Wellington have become Prime Minister? Would Napoleon still have been shipped off to St. Helena? 1854: Balaklava The most famous of Crimean conflicts incorporating the Charge of the Heavy Brigade and the more notorious Charge of the Light Brigade. Russians versus British and French. 1645: Naseby English Civil War battle, the outcome of which tipped the balance in favour of Cromwell, Roundheads versus Royalists.
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Documentary and Factual
- Producer:Action Time
- Programme Episode:Episode 1
- Transmission Date:03/08/1997
- Rights:On Request
- Decade: 1990s