Mushroom
Gold Member
A war game simulation is only partially driven by software
But it is still primarily driven by the initial scenarios put in at the start.
True fact, as part of the training at both Annapolis and the Naval War College, they constantly regame the Battle of Midway. And in all the decades since, the US forces have never won.
And do not forget, prior to the 1991 Gulf War, computer simulations programmed by experts were predicting from 10-30,000 coalition casualties. Of those, from 1-4,000 fatalities.
Of course, we now know the true figures. Around 600 casualties, 147 fatalities.
One must never take a "computer simulation" as anything other than that, a simulation. And as most who do such are not real experts in warfare, they tend to make rather bad ones. I have been laughing at them for decades, to be honest.