Wargaming and multi-actor strategic simulations

The question to address

Strategic decisions also depend on other actors’ choices and assumptions about their behaviour. A wargame opens those assumptions to scrutiny: participants take roles, explain choices and explore consequences within an explicit model.

Who it is for

Advanced education institutions, universities, public institutions and research teams working on strategy, international cooperation, policy and science diplomacy.

How we work

• Translate the working question into actors, interests, resources and observable decisions.
• Build a scenario, rules, adjudication criteria and materials aligned with the objectives.
• Playtest the prototype and document required revisions.
• Facilitate the simulation and compare choices, assumptions and interpretations in the debrief.

What you receive

• Concept and game model with explicit assumptions.
• Role dossiers, rules and agreed analogue or digital components.
• Facilitator and controller guide.
• Decision record, debrief and report on the alternatives and consequences explored.

Format and objectives

The simulation starts with a decision to explore. The scenario, actors and rules make the starting assumptions explicit; the debrief identifies alternatives, consequences observed in the game and questions for further work.