On 16 November 2007, Wargaming acquired the Minsk-based developer Arise. Over the course of five years, the company shipped five projects within the Massive Assault franchise. Wargaming started working on its first full-scale commercial project-the sci-fi turn-based strategy game Massive Assault, in March 2002. The company's first project was DBA Online-the digital version of a miniature tabletop rule set De Bellis Antiquitatis-launched in 2000. Wargaming was founded by Victor Kislyi in Minsk on 2 August 1998, intending the company as a developer of strategy video games. “That should be able to allow us to tie into the fleet and elements of training and education command,” he said.The building of Wargaming's headquarters in Nicosia, Cyprus That software is still in the development stage, he said. “The vision for the Marine Corps Wargaming and Analysis Center allows us the ability to plug into remote locations and play games using the system or systems that we have in the analysis center,” Schreffler said.

Its proximity should allow for cross-pollination of ideas from the schools for concept testing at the center.įormer heads of the war-fighting lab and Marine Corps Systems Command also previously told Marine Corps Times that the center will help them back decisions with deeper, evidence-based data, whether that is for unit employment, unit composition or weapons and equipment development and fielding.īut some of the thinking of the center is set to spread across the Corps.

The center’s site is next door to the Marine Corps University and not far from a number of mid- and senior-level Marine office schools and training programs. “We’re going to make sure they do less of the dying part by what we do here.” “It’s a big deal to those 19-year-olds here, to the ones down at Parris Island or at San Diego, because they do the fighting and the dying,” Smith told Marine Corps Times.

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