Wargaming Small Wars (merged thread)

[Rex Brynen]

An update on the Connections 2012 interdisciplinary wargaming conference at PAXsims, with celebrity endorsements from Napoleon Bonaparte and Winston Churchill.

[BayonetBrant]

discussion of an ongoing project for rapid-prototyping and development of scenarios for current events

warning: a lot of wargame assumptions made of the reader

http://grognews.blogspot.com/2012/07...ting-c2e2.html

excerpt

How will the overall model work together? We need some way of tracking the local civilian 'mood' and support for the different sides, through political organized, governance, levels of I/O, etc. We also need a way to keep track of the body count, and what thresholds of dead units start to trigger counter-actions from the dead units' families. How do you know what true effects you have on the local areas, and how do you assess it, and how do you establish the longevity of the effects?

When military forces deploy to a tsunami zone, what are they bringing with them in terms on N-K factors, and how well does that play in affecting the local perception of them? How does training units in certain aspects change what their performance can be on the ground? If you plus up an infantry brigade with a variety of N-K assets and training, are they really more effective on the ground in N-K roles, or have you just degraded their KIN capabilities instead?

comments welcome!

[Rex Brynen]

The annual Connections 2012 interdisciplinary wargaming conference wrapped up yesterday at NDU, with more than one hundred professional wargamers, government and commercial wargame designers, scholars, and other analysts in attendance.

Various AARs on the event are linked via the Wargaming Connection blog.