Games with toy soldiers existed thousands of years ago, however primarily these little figures of warriors were used more for designation of troops arrangement on maps, rather than for playing.
War games as we know them today appeared in Britain where in 1912 a non-fiction work by Herbert George Wells, an English novelist, journalist, sociologist, and historian, famous for his numerous science fiction novels and short stories, was published. “Little Wars” appears a set of rules for playing with toy soldiers. It was presented not only for professional military men, but for anyone fond of toy soldiers and military history. The book covers the past of this “game of kings”, the beginning of modern little warfare, the rules, the battle of hook’s farm, extensions and applications of little war and ending with a sort of challenge.