Thank you for sharing!

We have a Wargaming Lab at ISM University of Management and Economics in Vilnius, Lithuania. That's in addition to the course where we had a discussion with you! More: pijus.substack.com/p/academic-y... and faculty.ism.lt/en/ism-warga...

Commercial sector innovations can find their place in professional wargaming - from streamlining to mechanical novelties. Successful involvement of high ranking officers / decision makers depends on how they can be involved with relatively lower time investment and lower need for rule complexity.

Academically, important discussions focus on type of knowledge that wargames create, which was excellently presented by David Banks. It's great that postgraduate research is going strong, and it was interesting to see some historical counterfactual research on the possible invasion of Switzerland.

Megagames are a great platform to encourage discussions, communication, and highlight challenges (and need for cooperation). Last year, the game focused on logistics, this year it was about threats to the Green and Pleasant Land of the UK. I got the role of Chief Medical Officer and we survived!

The Baltic States and the Eastern Flank continue to get a lot of attention. Well, it's not surprising. There is a need for a greater involvement from the region, and I'm very happy about the upcoming wargaming conference in Poland.

Resilience and urban environment are still heavily on the agenda. Looking at the game fair games it's very clear. On the other hand, there is also a variety in topics from deception to the effects of space on land operations.

They did! We'll try another battle next time.

Fully agreed. Also, his DonkeyElephant >>> CatDog.

More Kafkaesque than Kafka! By exactly four limbs.

I was just adding this today to my intro class material.

In the end, each group reached a positive level of public welfare, even if some also did more for themselves... Yet, I think the students would form quite a good government.

Photos by Laima Penek.

How does agenda setting power affect policy outcomes? How can personal and public interests be balanced? Those are not easy questions, but using a game gave a platform to actually make decisions instead of just discussing ideas.

Thanks for the shout! @keithlaw.bsky.social - always happy to chat about using board games in classroom.