Look at this wild and beautiful map by Mark Herman -- designed for a global hypothetical WWIII wargame for National Defense University in the 1980s. It is currently on display specifically for SDHistCon at the Naval War College Museum.

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Now *that's* an innovative map! Buckminster Fuller Dymaxion map overlaid with a hex grid. Coded by terrain type.

Mr. Herman created the award winning Gulf Strike TTWG in 1983.
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2076/gulf-strike

When I worked at Avalon Hill, for my sins I was tasked with shoehorning Gulf Strike into the Atari 800. I failed miserably because the Atari only had a pathetic 48K of RAM

Gulf Strike

1980's land, sea, and air conflicts in the Persian Gulf region.

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