Playing card war simulation game

A war simulation game, played by two players upon a game surface having a first player side and a second player side, each player side divided into zones, including a weapon zone, an available resource pile, and a depleted resource pile, using two card decks, each card deck associated with a particular player, each card deck comprising a plurality of cards which include weapon cards and resource cards, each weapon card having resource requirements, attack specifications, and defense specifications, comprising the steps of:

• drawing an initial card hand by each player from their card deck comprising a predetermined number of cards and then alternating turns between the two players, each turn comprising the steps of:
• placing a resource card from the player hand in the available resource pile;
• deploying a weapon card into the weapon zone from the player hand when sufficient resource cards are available in the available resource pile to meet the resource requirements of the weapon card while moving the resource cards used to meet the resource requirements into the depleted resource zone;
• and
• attacking the opponent such that the player has an attacking weapon from the player's weapon zone and the opponent has a defending weapon from the opponent's weapon zone, further comprising selectively eliminating at least one of the weapon cards by comparing the attack specifications of the attacking weapon card with the defense specifications of the defending weapon card.