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Cole rated Axis and Allies too low on BGG. 🙂

Good talk, very informative. I'll be more than happy to see more

Great stuff.

Awesome.Great Scenario for current and future Scenario.Great😅 Scenario for War gaming and special scenario aspects.Its a great War gaming design development and decision. On warfare gaming design ,am in.

A great video

I had no idea this was a thing! Thank you! P.S. Legalize Dueling, imo. Maximum Freedom, Maximum Responsibility. Societal pressure release imo based on Honor and perceived status. Just my 2 cents.

Fascinating talk, thank you for sharing it!

I love the clarity and focus of your design process. Including your being driven by conscious constraints (e.g.,. total time, number of decisions, etc). Luke (lead, Burden of Command)

These fucking law professors and this law institution at Georgetown is completely fucking treasonous!😢😢😢😢 there will be a bunch of you convicted of fucking treason in the United States before long!😢😢😢😢😢😢

anyone know what the tournament rules of root are that he talks about?

Thanks to Georgetown University Wargaming Group, and especially to Sebastian Bae and Nick Wernert for the invitation to hold the presentation and the great time spent. I am available to answer any question, and people can contact me anytime if they are interested to know more about the topic and my designs 'The Collapse' and 'The Spanish Road' including to join the playtest for 'The Collapse'. Thanks again and hopefully to present more times with you. Daniel Hernández Iniesta

This guy can put together a really good presentation about game design! (He can also put together a really good game btw)

As a wargame designer, I am more interested in using my design to understand why things happened as recorded than using the game to imagine more future outcomes. That said, I agree with Kahn that "good" judgement is more difficult to develop than widened imagination. Does an AI application develop good judgement, or does it simply store and shuffle numerous alternatives,, none of which may be the best alternative. For example, is unilateral disarmament an example of good judgement? Is history modelling a different technology than predictive systems?

Thank you!

Fantastic presentation from Clint, and very useful!

Thanks Jared. It kind of reminds me of running a Lean 6 Sigma Kaizen event. The "game" in one of those is walking the process you are trying to streamline. However, the set-up, ground rules, and results are very similar. In my office, we also use gamification a lot to help drive performance.

Are the stats and analysis behind the casualties in close terrain?

Add the word Corporate, suck the joy out of everything. Gaming then becomes a capitalist tool to extract more value from resources i.e. you & me. Thanks buddy. "Oh no, gaming is fun! We'll use it to teach better accounting/ sales/engineering practices"... 🙄

I have never played a war game of any kind, I thought this was a great lecture. I was a History major in college and still a history buff. This lecture was interesting and thought provoking. Thanks from Milwaukee 🍻

Can’t wait to get into this, just started playing Root and Pax Pamir is one of my all time favs!

Interesting stuff, many thanks for sharing.

always interested in wehrle's thoughts on game design

Does this game design course take foreign students or is it for US only!

Well made. So full of great information and insight. Thanks for uploading.

Great video Cole - really helpful from a designer point of view.

This was excelent.

Thank you for the video. If you can read between the lines, it was enlightening on the state of brazilian navy wargaming. Army wargamers would be at odds with some things he said though 😅

Super 😊

congratulations on the talk 👏🏼🔝😊

In the topic of video-board games with politics... Solium Infernum! Maybe not historical (at all), but in its systems.

Awesome video ! Anyway to find a pdf with the rules or even a ppt ?

Space is the ultimate high ground. Combine space with cyber and you have global reach and an intelligence structure that literally struggles to attain enough manpower to process the intake. However, cyber's biggest threat for the US is internal. See "How To Spot A Space Nazi" for details, but long story short non-state actors are the cyber impediments of the future as they've learned (from gangs) the power of targeting civilian side cyber personae.

May I please see the game parts you have? The dice are very interesting and I would love to see more about Kreigspeil. Please send me all that you can. Thank you, Barron Von Rapert

3:57 Your model does not work well due to the fact that most individuals have souls and each soul has a unique mission...recently the energy on earth has shifted and souls are Ascending the flesh out of the matrix and we are building beautiful worlds in the spirit. So unless you bring in my partner and I to help you get ahead in an ethical way...I wish you luck.

Forget about NW or SCS, they are for slow small scenarios. No wonder your design has ended up were it did. Your problem is that you are making both a theater operational level game and a grand tactical game. You need to make up your mind, otherwise, there's no way you will drop your playing time of 3 hours per day. Which is insane. There are plenty of simpler mechanisms to simulate ammo availability and overall readiness. And get rid of all the dice and use a d20, or many, you are making it unnecesarily complicated. Anyways, thanks for the comprehensive explanation.

Very interesting video. Looks like they are expanding and modernizing their tools and practices at a very promising pace. Thank you.

Excellent presentation. Looking forward to reading your finalized dissertation.

Unclassified cyber gameplay > czcams.com/video/maHzPPSY7SY/video.html&ab_channel=USAFAMulti-DomainLaboratory

Modern and near future cyber warfare is built around actions of domestic terrorism. Specifically, script kiddies coordinating with criminal organizations (the kinds that use games like Eve Online or Counterstrike to launder money) will establish and track patterns of behavior for targets matching their ideological extremism: E.G. neonazis targeting atheists, homosexuals, gypsies, or Jews. Many of the "lone wolf" shootings prevalent in America are coordinated and targeted political actions supported through coordinated script kiddy enabled monitoring and operational guidance. Non-state actors are the greatest threat to the United States Constitution at the moment. See "How To Spot A Space Nazi" for additional examples and details.

Wargames are a modeling tool not a predictive tool, it's true, but if the model fails to accurately predict an outcome given a set of accurate inputs it's likely not a great model.

You wrote Pocket Empires!

Great talk, Geoff! Can anyone recommend other videos/talks on this topic in board game design please? I'm hungry for more.

We are forming a school club that has tabletop gaming, dnd and designing small games for the school. I highly enjoyed this lecture and use some of the points to coach the students. Thank you

Great presentation, has a lot of relevance nowadays... however the title uses the word 'science', which seems dangerously inaccurate. Very impressed by the opening remarks on the three possible uses of games /gamification. But perhaps budget constraints hijacked this effort? Relying on board games to train tactical, I get that. But trying to simulate global strategy seems a huge stretch without major computational input. Experimental results also demand rigor. Repeatability, a null hypothesis, some form of benchmark or comparative (gold standard being double blind). So extremely terrifying that nuclear policy etc is being simulated without any of that rigor or complexity. And other giant issues like the politics & economy of entire nations simply by using simplified, modified, or adapted board games. Off the shelf games have their own biases and simplifications baked in, how could that be influencing outcomes? And the classic example stated of the players' suprise at their own FASCISM developed as a result of black-white thinking, unfettered 'power' in the game & zero real consequence. This is exactly how governments fail, by taking ignorant, shortsighted & delusional decisions - often repeating history (if only they could learn from it!). Plus of course elitist exploitation of the population. So despite the outrageously self-aggrandizing bio of the two presenters... less impressive than hoped for. Also the chief cultural 'norm' of the male dominating the presentation despite a female of apparently equal status being right beside him! Unbelievable... But demonstrated exactly how inbuilt biases can skew decisions & behaviour.

I enjoyed seeing the different individual approaches as well as the evolution. Anachrony is an interesting automa PVP example.. It's kind of like an automated flow chart. There are different numbered tokens in that chart that have their own track of actions. A die is rolled to activate one of these tokens' action space and then it is advanced to the next spot in its track. The randomness keeps a player from knowing which action will be fired off, while the tracks help constrain the bot to make smarter choices. You can also modify the track if you are plugging in different content. Not as smart as a flow chart, nor as evolved as the PVE bots, but a unique approach that strikes a balance for some players.

None of this is classified. But, now they know how we plan.

That is a lot of aggregation for air. Being an airdale, I'm going to be concerned with training, tactics, readiness (maintenance) and loadout profiles. If I'm a Hornet with AIM-9Ms going up against an F-35 with AMRAAMs and that monster 200 mi radar, ain't no way we both have a 10 for offense. I'm surprised there isn't more differentiation between the airframes. At the end of the day, it's up to CAG, but if I'm CAG in this wargame, I don't have a lot of decisions to make.

Wow- that is the first time I've seen the AYK-14 mentioned since I worked on them at NASLEM in the early 90's. I'm surprised they're still using it.

Always interesting to listen to Trent. This talk makes a good companion piece to Drachinifel's series of Fleet Problem videos

How can you call yourself war gaming and let them make a joke out of your name like what world of warship does by not helping them hold themseleves to a better stander making a mockery of the fbi est by not doing a proper investigation into this terrorist organization world of tanks est by letting them waste our time