When drawing a circuit in a schematic editor, most of the time people are going to have to draw their own custom symbols, for example ICs.
What is the standard practice for the way in which pins are laid out on a custom symbol?
Is it better to order the pins around the block as they appear phy...
Gettysburg is a board wargame produced by Avalon Hill which re-enacts the American Civil War battle of Gettysburg.
== History ==
Gettysburg was originally published in 1958, and was the first board wargame based on a historical battle.
Gettysburg has game mechanics similar to Avalon Hill's ground-breaking Tactics II (1958). In particular, the combat results table favors attacking where one has a local superiority of numbers. Unlike Tactics II, Gettysburg gives each unit an orientation, and an attacker can improve his odds by attacking a defender from the side or from the rear. The defende...
Hex is likely the most famous early application, circa 1942.
The wiki for Sannin Shōgi, a modernization of three-player Shogi, puts the invention of that game circa 1930.
This article Games for Three lists Three-Handed Hexagonal Chess as first developed in 1912 by by Sigmund Wellisch.
Are t...
