Editing Kriegsspiel (section)

=== Modern Incarnation ===

The game is still played to this day. Partly in officer training, but while those rules are not publicly available, some communities have created rules adaptations meant to be played by hobbyists as well. Using the technological advancements we've made since the time of horses and sabers, these games can now be played without requiring an entirely separate physical map and board pieces per participating player.

Since you'd be hard pressed to find many players today with the knowledge and experience of 19th century warfare needed to play the judging third party - often named Umpires - these rules use dice and updated instructions to attempt to maintain the real battlefield problems that are so core to the game's identity and appeal. The main difficulty of playing the game still comes from limited information and the difficulty of trying to clearly communicate your intentions to another human being, a skill that many of today's wargamers are known to be incredibly skilled at, keeping it a remarkably interesting experience. 

There is not one single version of these rules; the original game was adapted by multiple military organisations for different periods, and today's players have made multiple interpretations of what to keep and what to change for their modern versions.