Yay extremely picky: is war gaming a sport?

[Eric]

You cannot have an element of chance in a sport, unless it is modified by skill.

Do you mean that skill can be used to overcome the chance? The elements add a degree of randomness to many sports - toss a coin to decide who kicks off or which team gets the end of the pitch with the sun in their eyes, quality of the ground, etc. So wind, rain and the rest might add a degree of unpredictability, which could impact one or both sides, are dice a simulacrum of that in our scale games? I suppose (and I am playing devils advocate here) you might argue that a very skilled gamer can handle poor dice rolls through better tactics, ie their skill modifies it? Although I suspect that is limited to a degree, those Snotlings are not taking down the Titan...

Mainly arguing here so I can claim to be a sportsman at last of course

 

[ManicMan]

no dice based sports? funny you should say that... but we will get very much more messy then already is if we start to go down there cause it very much comes into differences between countries and stuff.

also mind sport is sport. clue is in the title.
like how war games are still war gaming, despite a few issues.

also also, yep, going with Eric in that how much randomness is in 'sport'.. very much alot... I can refer you to some of the statistician teams which pretty much all major football clubs have. that's some bloody complex math and takes into account the large amount of randomness. very interesting guys if you are into that kinda stuff.

I wonder if we can find some army guys who would love to moan if you claim combat is very much only luck based ^_^