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The title really covers it. This is a former Naval War College Professor talking about the design and implementation of War at Sea which is an educational, board and dice based wargame. The talk is to the Georgetown University Wargaming Society.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtHMc29u15I

Lot's of interesting stuff......

Thanks, sounds better than the abomination we had on the Air Force side, we should follow the Army and adapt it to Air Campaigns. Disagree with him on at least one point though for the design purpose the tactical is important because one of the important parts of being an operational level commander is also knowing how to utilize your tactical level commanders not simply the capabilities attached to them. If you reduce the decisions the tactical commanders are making then you that becomes less exercised. IE, Is this the task I want to be done by a subordinate who knows how to calculate risk or the one who plays conservative ?

PS If anyone is having trouble sleeping read the Joint Pubs referenced in his briefing.

Thanks for post Easy. Listening now.


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Pretty interesting. I had heard of this game before but didint know anything about it. It's certainly the dream of wargamers to have the umpired, double blind wargame with fow. I was curious how he was going to model a modenr scenario and im glad that question was asked. I like the use if expendable munitions of bulky smart weapons like tomahawks and torpedoes. However, i think the omission of logistics in ww2 scenarios should be considered an oversight and a weakness of leyte gulf rather than a strength of modern ones like SChina sea or the falklands.