It is said that the Prussian officers play at a game called kriegspiel, or the war game. |
The northern third of Natal is as vulnerable a military position as a player of kriegspiel could wish to have submitted to him. |
We then proceeded to kriegspiel, according to the mysterious ideas of those in authority over us. |
Each leader assumed that the moves of the kriegspiel had been correctly played and that there was nothing more to be done. |