The Surplus Expert: Designing Wargames That Survive Too Much Subject-Matter Knowledge in the Room
When wargame rooms fill with domain experts, play collapses into consensus. Here's how to design against it before the first move.
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Phantom Stabilizers: Designing Wargames That Remove the Assumptions Keeping Your Model From Breaking
Most wargames never break because hidden stabilizing assumptions prevent it. Here's how to find and remove them before the real world does.
E. SokolovThe Competence Trap: Designing Wargames That Expose Expert Blind Spots
How to design wargame roles and adjudication rules that turn deep subject-matter expertise into a liability, surfacing the blind spots experts can't see.
E. SokolovSilent Assumptions: How to Design Wargames That Force Players to Surface Hidden Doctrine
Most wargames fail not because players make wrong decisions, but because they never articulate the assumptions driving those decisions. Here's how to fix that.
E. SokolovGhost Moves: Designing Wargames That Let Actors Defect From Their Own Doctrine
Most wargames lock players into historical doctrine. Here's how to design for the moment an actor stops following the script.
E. SokolovDead Reckoning: How to Design Wargames That Punish Overconfident Intelligence Estimates
Learn how to build wargame mechanics that expose the hidden cost of overconfident intelligence estimates before they fail in the real world.
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