Chainmail

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One of the earliest mass market wargames.

The rules were published in 1971 by TSR and were based on other, historical wargames. Chainmail, however, had a fantasy bent; artillery was replaced with magic (to the same effect), medics became magical healers, and so forth. Chainmail also included rules for dragons and other fantasy creatures. The game was immensely popular (though niche) and very shortly evolved into Dungeons and Dragons. In fact, the original D&D game recommended that you have a copy of Chainmail to play (though it did come with a d20 attack matrix that become standard and eventually converted into THAC0). Chainmail has been replaced by the Dungeons and Dragons Miniatures game.