Has anyone else read the Darksword Trilogy by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman?

In book three, the Triumph of the Darksword, there is a battle. But it is not a normal battle: it is played like a game, in turns, on a hexgrid, and each warlord stands at a different edge of the field of honor, commanding his troops and watching the combat on magical stone tables that present miniature illusions of each unit in the field. Almost everyone has magic, and the mages are divided into many different groups, some that control weather, some that summon creatures, some that channel magical power into other, who actually do the heavy spellcasting.

Is it just me, or does that look familiar?