The benefits and limits of computerization in conflict simulation

Wargaming in higher education: Contributions and challenges

“…Computer wargames have a decidedly double-edged impact on this issue of required expertise. On the one hand, some such games (especially those with first person avatars) can be 'picked up and played' with hardly any reference to the embedded rules, but on the other hand, higher level computer wargames often contain even more detailed and complex rules than manual games, and creating or modifying the associated algorithms requires specialist computer programming skills possessed by very few humanities students and academics (Sabin, 2011).…”