LICENCE
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THE ORIGINAL
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"Little Wars" by H. G. Wells was published in 1913. Its author died in 1946.
The book and the rules it sets out are in the public domain throughout the
world, and no permission is needed to implement them, to adapt them, or to
publish a game founded on them.

The title Little Wars is used because the work is public domain and because
the game is Wells's game rather than an imitation of it. The rules of his
third chapter are implemented as written.

THIS IMPLEMENTATION
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The code, the artwork, the countries, the machine general and the documents in
this package are the original work of Tronsoft Games, 2026, and are published
as part of this package for use through the Tronsoft Games portal.

No third-party code is included. No fonts are shipped; the game asks for faces
that are already on your machine and falls back to whatever it finds. No
network request is made by any part of this package, at any time, for any
reason.

WHERE THIS DEPARTS FROM WELLS
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Two places, both recorded here so that nobody has to guess.

Wells writes that if the battle is undecided when both forces are reduced
below fifteen men, it is drawn. Fifteen is his figure for his own size of
force. Read literally it declared a rout of thirteen men against one to be a
draw, so the weight is put on "undecided": the low-water mark is fifteen or a
fifth of what was put down, whichever is the smaller, and below it a plain
lead on points still decides the day.

Wells's defensive game asks the attacker to reach the defender's back line
while still a quarter of his original strength. Read as one man arriving, the
attacker won ten battles out of ten, so a lodgement is six men -- the same
number Wells asks for in the Blow at the Rear -- and the quarter remains the
test of strength.