Ender's Legacy: Digital Wargames in Professional Military Education w/ Kevin Williamson
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- čas přidán 27. 07. 2024
- About this event
This webinar is focused on discussing the various ways that Digital COTS Wargames can be used to augment Professional Military Education. It will explore the Marine Corps' Wargaming Cloud in support of MCU (Marine Corps University) Fight Club and Matrix Games Portfolio within. Various levels of use from Enlisted personnel to Operational level training will be discussed. Conversations about the advantages that digital wargames provide to PME for learning adversary capabilities. Tactical Fitness gained through human opponents from reps and sets will be explained.
Bio:
Kevin Williamson is a Wargame Subject Matter Expert currently working at Marine Corps University in support of Professional Military Education. Kevin is a veteran of the US Armed Forces with experience in Logistics and Gunnery with a strong passion for Civilian-Military joint learning. Kevin spends his free time playing various wargames and spearheading USA Fight Club digital wargame efforts with an emphasis on translating Tactical Decision Games to digital COTS Wargames.
Fantastic overview and very education - thank you for sharing!
I find the focus on civilian use of Steel Beasts rather odd. It is primarily an actual training tool for tanks crews and armor commanders for a good number of national armies. I think its actually export controlled in some way also. The commercial aspect is only a side benefit. As a combined arms simulator, I believe it easily rivals Combat Mission for cold war and modern combat. But is more complex and requires more of an investment of time as a commercial game than Combat Mission.
There is nothing odd about it, Steel beasts started as a commercial tank simulator long ago, before it was a training simulator. (SB1). People play complex simulators (Eg DCS for flight) and this is one of them. A large portion of the gaming community are current military of veterans. We have large (20-30 players) and complex operations, professionally run, on a regular basis (like every week). We take new players through training fairly rapidly. If you have a will there is always a way to make anything happen.
It was commercial a long time ago. Its been military focused on the military for 15 or so years. My point is the military side of SB was not even mentioned.
@@kevinprouty1567 I agree. In many countries it's a primary training tool.