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Can't upvote this hard enough. I'm fascinated by large scale games of this kind and have a loose acquaintance with some people who run them, but it's a very tin
by anigbrowl 2y ago
Can't upvote this hard enough. I'm fascinated by large scale games of this kind and have a loose acquaintance with some people who run them, but it's a very tiny industry that's almost exclusively based around DC for obvious reasons.
- rareitem 2y agoAre they online games or real life games (e.g. board games)?
- anigbrowl 2y agoI mean real life games, like the ones hosted by/for military and disaster planners. The only places I can think of on the west coast that might do that sort of stuff are the RAND corporation and the Naval Postgraduate school at Monterey.
- JoeDaDude 2y agoI think it is a safe bet that they are mostly computer games by now, though there is a long history of using board games for training. That said, there was Freedom of Information Act request to uncover some of the games Mr. Rhunke developed for the CIA and they turned out to be physical board games.
- cl42 2y agoIf you're curious, here's a 165-page Taiwan war game run across multiple scenarios and events: https://www.csis.org/analysis/first-battle-next-war-wargaming-chinese-invasion-taiwan https://www.csis.org/analysis/first-battle-next-war-wargamin...
- anigbrowl 2y agoBless you, this is exactly my kind of thing. Thanks.