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Tractics, the Glossary

Tractics: Rules for WWII Miniatures is a set of wargaming rules for conducting World War II style combat with 1:285 scale micro armour miniatures.^[1]

Avalon Hill

Avalon Hill Games Inc. is a game company that publishes wargames and strategic board games.

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Don Lowry

Don Lowry is a wargamer, businessman, illustrator, and game designer who is best known as the publisher of Chainmail and the editor of Panzerfaust Magazine.

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Fast Rules is a simple, playable ruleset for conducting table top wargames with H0 scale World War II miniatures using armor, artillery and infantry and classed as a "mid-level skirmish" wargame. Tractics and Fast Rules are Guidon Games games, miniature wargames, Playscale miniaturism and wargame stubs.

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Gary Gygax

Ernest Gary Gygax (July 27, 1938 – March 4, 2008) was an American game designer and author best known for co-creating the pioneering tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) with Dave Arneson.

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Guidon Games

Guidon Games produced board games and rulebooks for wargaming with miniatures, and in doing so influenced Tactical Studies Rules (later TSR, Inc.), the publisher of Dungeons & Dragons.

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Lake Geneva Tactical Studies Association

The Lake Geneva Tactical Studies Association (LGTSA) was a wargaming club active in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin during the early 1970s.

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Micro armour

Micro armour (or micro armor) refers to scale models made of lead, pewter, die cast metal or plastic, usually used for wargaming purposes. Tractics and micro armour are miniature wargames.

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Military tactics

Military tactics encompasses the art of organizing and employing fighting forces on or near the battlefield.

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Miniature wargaming

Miniature wargaming is a form of wargaming in which military units are represented by miniature physical models on a model battlefield. Tractics and miniature wargaming are miniature wargames and Playscale miniaturism.

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Perfect information

In economics, perfect information (sometimes referred to as "no hidden information") is a feature of perfect competition.

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Strategy

Strategy (from Greek στρατηγία stratēgia, "art of troop leader; office of general, command, generalship") is a general plan to achieve one or more long-term or overall goals under conditions of uncertainty.

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Tactics II

Tactics II Tactics II is a wargame designed by Charles S. Roberts and published by the Avalon Hill game company in 1958 and then re-released again in 1961 and 1972.

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TSR, Inc.

TSR, Inc. was an American game publishing company, best known as the original publisher of Dungeons & Dragons (D&D).

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Wargame

A wargame is a strategy game in which two or more players command opposing armed forces in a simulation of an armed conflict.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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1:285 scale

1:285 scale or 6 mm figure size is a US Army scale introduced in the late 1960s, and used for wargames and some scale model dioramas. Tractics and 1:285 scale are miniature wargames and wargame stubs.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tractics