@EM_DAlessandro

Wargamer + wargame designer. PhD student at @warstudies studying Immersion in Wargaming. Interested in the future of conflict, China, USN, and undersea cables.

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I’ve now finished uploading it, so if you have ever wanted to fight out the opening month of a war between the US and China between you and a friend, or for 200 people you can now do so! All of Jaws of the Dragon is now freely available for download. evandalessandro.com/jaws-of-…

Jaws of the Dragon

Jaws of the Dragon is a brigade level wargame of a US-China war happening tomorrow.

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More playtesting of Brigade Commander. It is getting there slowly, the main body is done but it still has lots of tweaking and clarification to be done, and the real world is always constantly moving forward creating problems to be fixed.
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Lots of playtesting over the weekend.
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I don't have anything to say in relation to the discussion of AI in this piece as it's not my area and I will never say no to more research, but but do think the idea of "scientific" wargaming laid out here is clearly wrong. warontherocks.com/where-does…

Where Does AI Escalation Come From? We Don’t Know. We Should Find Out.

We played a wargame using AI players. Two nuclear-armed nations — Red and Blue — with a long-standing, fierce border dispute were placed into a

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Really "would be unacceptable in other sciences" is a silly statement and rankles me, you are saying social science must be like hard sciences, but they are different things and function differently!
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Blindly applying the way one works to the other is not going to work because they are fundamentally different, and this narrow view of "science" would deprive us of other real, good, science.
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Played through Storm Over Arnhem. Very easy to get the hang of and a few interesting ideas, but a couple clearly exploitable rules and the best moves are pretty obvious after the first hour or two of play. My opponent never felt a reason to hand over tactical advantage either.
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Probably not going to play it again, but it was interesting from a game historical perspective and I had a good time playing it. We called the game where it was clear me and my opponent were just going to grind into each other for the next two hours until someone won.
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Working on Russian-specific capability cards for Brigade Commander. I think the nukes are going to be scenario specific for the time being.
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