Combining RPGs and War Games

A while back I spoke about injecting RP to your war games, and now the idea comes full circle. What about combining RPGs with war games? How would that work out? Considering RPGs sprung from war games, so it’s a natural progression.

Imagine a campaign where war had begun to spread across the land, and you wanted to simulate the progress of the war. You could simply progress the war as you see fit (your prerogative as a game master), or you could make a game of it. What if you used a map of your world and played one round of Risk on it each Month in-game? Or used Games Workshop’s Mighty Empires? If playing A Song of Ice and Fire, you could use the Game of Thrones board game by Fantasy Flight Games.

Moving down to a more tactical scale, why not use Warhammer 40k to determine battles when playing a game of Dark Heresy? Or Flames of War when playing a World War II game?

Just a few ideas I’ve been kicking around.

What do you think? Do you think it would work?