Splashy Slide of the Future

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Game Components

• Why Wargame?
• Why Baghdad?

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Why a board game?

• Vet the Model
• Transparent Processes
• Prototype Computer Application
• Enforces Parsimony
• Conflict is a Social Interaction!

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Why Wargame?

• Commercial Interest
• Illustrate Asymmetrical Environment
• Complexity Management Parsimony is KING!
• Training/Education
• Understanding Other POV

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Research Behind Baghdad

• Qualitative
• Insurgency Literature
• Participant Interviews
• Assumption Building/Testing
• Each group has capacity to build infrastructure
• Objectives are only obtainable in the context of
  other group objectives
• Open Source

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Baghdad Training Primer

• Players Control Factions
• Factions have Objectives Objectives Govern
  Strategy
• Factions have Assets Assets Govern Methods
• Player Employs Assets to Prosecute Strategies by
  Available Methods
• Individual Victory is Challenging Complex
  Environment with multiple Factions trying to meet
  respective objectives. Cooperation can be a key
  to Victory.

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Game Components
Game Components

• Map
• Arab Street

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Game Components

• Map
• Arab Street
• Arms Bazaar

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Game Components

• Map
• Arab Street
• Arms Bazaar
• Infrastructure
• Security

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Game Components
Game Components

• Map
• Arab Street
• Arms Bazaar
• Infrastructure
• Security
• Command

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Sequence of play

• INITIATIVE
• Sunk Costs Dollar Auction
• ARAB STREET
• Environmental Effects
• ARMS BAZAAR
• Intelligence Fog of War
• COALITION
• Lets Make a Deal!

• PLAYER ROUNDS
• Recruit
• Move
• COMBAT
• Dial Commitment
• Pick Command
• Pick Offense Defense
• CIVIC ACTION
• Collect Political Capital

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LETS PLAY!