The Art of Wargaming¶
Perla, P. P. (1990). The Art of Wargaming: A Guide for Professionals and Hobbyists. Naval Institute Press.
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Primes¶
- Wargaming
- The central structural move is to substitute an adaptive role for a probability distribution: where a Monte Carlo simulation rolls dice, a wargame rolls another mind.
This sourceStandard reference on wargaming as a method: the substitution of an adaptive opponent for a probability distribution, fog of war, adjudication, and assumption-exposure (not forecast) as the output.
- The central structural move is to substitute an adaptive role for a probability distribution: where a Monte Carlo simulation rolls dice, a wargame rolls another mind.
Mechanisms¶
- Opponent or Partner Response Simulation
- Run as a war-game with a human on the other side, it also breaks your own team's tunnel vision.
This sourceDefines wargaming as simulated conflict in which human decisions by opposing players shape subsequent play.
- Run as a war-game with a human on the other side, it also breaks your own team's tunnel vision.
- Tabletop Wargame
- Playing the full sequence is what lets it catch the archetype's signature lesson, that a plan's weak point is often the opponent's second move rather than its first, in the tradition of structured military map exercises reaching back to nineteenth-century Kriegsspiel.
This sourceTraces structured, map-based military wargaming with opposing sides and sequential orders to nineteenth-century Prussian Kriegsspiel.
- Playing the full sequence is what lets it catch the archetype's signature lesson, that a plan's weak point is often the opponent's second move rather than its first, in the tradition of structured military map exercises reaching back to nineteenth-century Kriegsspiel.
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