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These teaching adaptations, excerpts and companion tools are provided for educational purposes only. Teaching Wargaming is an independent teaching project. It does not claim ownership of the original games or imply endorsement, sponsorship or authorization by their designers, publishers or other rights holders.
Original game designs, rules, artwork, names and other protected materials remain the property of their respective rights holders. Educational purpose and attribution do not themselves grant permission to reproduce, adapt or distribute protected material. This notice grants no such permission. Confirm applicable permissions before sharing or publishing materials.
Battle for Moscow uses the VPG 2009 rules reference, with implementation differences identified in its notes. Last Convoy uses the rules provided on its game page. Any teaching simplifications, local rulings or implementation differences belong to this project, and errors in our tools should not be attributed to the original designers. Please support the original games and their publishers.
Battle for Moscow
Original design: Frank Chadwick (1986). Development: John Harshman and John Astell. Original art direction: Barbie Pratt. Original playtesting: the staffs of Game Designers’ Workshop and Diverse Talents, Incorporated.
Victory Point Games second edition (2009): Alan Emrich, revision, graphics and rules presentation; Lance McMillan, further development. Playtesting and/or proofreading: Bill Barrett, Richard Carley, Terence Co, Vince DeNardo, Stefan Anton Federsel and the Bavarian Raiders, Don Johnson, John Leggat, Jon Matthews, Kim Meints and Gary Sonnenberg.
Published copyright notice: © 1986 Frank Chadwick and 2009 Victory Point Games. Our unofficial teaching implementation follows the VPG 2009 rules reference, using independently written code, explanations and screen graphics. No original rulebook scans or artwork are included. Educational purposes only; no affiliation or endorsement is implied. Source: VPG rules, §14, hosted by Oberlabs.
Online reference implementation: Oberlabs’ Battle for Moscow, consulted for the map, counters and implementation comparison. Our campaign uses independently written interface code and screen graphics. This credit does not imply an affiliation with Oberlabs.
Teaching Wargaming’s contribution
A free educational project led by Dr. Haider Mullick, who teaches international security and public policy at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and McCourt School of Public Policy. This is an independent project, not an official Georgetown University website. The browser games are free to play without buying or printing components. The site contributes independently written teaching interfaces, worked exercises and game records players can review. Those contributions do not transfer ownership of the underlying games. Credits identify the editions and sources actually used. Further contributors or corrections will be added when verified.
Last Convoy
Original game, rules, fictional evidence and interface: Teaching Wargaming, developed with Codex under Dr. Haider Mullick. Free educational play. The adviser is scripted; no live AI is connected. The game explores the costs of verification and accepting advice. It does not establish how real AI systems behave. Balance and learning value await classroom evaluation.