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Fun fact! The concept of "hit points" were originally developed by military wargames, and were defined as the number of 14-inch shell hits a vessel could survive.
Every living creature has 1hp!
Source is BDG
Think the military would let me join just to play the strategy games?
I don't want to do any fighting.
Yes. Lots of defense contractor rules running the simulation software and doing programming related to it. Actually playing the game is a different story, and would be mostly restricted to officers, former officers turned contractors, and the odd PhD civilian working for them.
Otherwise just get EUIV and go to town.
Point and click at enemies on the screen. Just don't think about how they are actually alive.
That's what I do in xcom
You could always just play wargames as a civilian
Go for Bolt Action if you're not into sci-fi or fantasy. Bonus: the guys at the game store playing Bolt Action are almost universally grumpy old grognards
But... the only way to win at WarGames is to not play...