Briefing

The Mission

Formative Objective:

Infiltrate the opposite group's field base using your agents. A diplomatic challenge is triggered as soon as you have three agents in place.

Conclusion:

A successful base seizure claim requires three Agents-In-Place that have been deemed legitimate during the Endgame.

Stratagems:

If tactically necessary or strategically expedient, you can seek to;

• defend your own base.

• capture opposite field agents.

• team your field agents.

• retrieve captured field agents.

• attain diplomatic immunity.

• traverse borders.

Basic Mechanism

Taking Turns:

During each turn, known as an opportunity cycle, players will;

• collect and analyse intelligence data.

• manage assets and resources.

• plan strategies, weighing global risks.

• devise tactics, exploiting local events.

• receive, decode and execute directives.

• observe protocol and monitor compliance.

• supervise operations.

Making a Move:

The simplest move, a Normal Standard Operation, is made by;

• receiving a command directive on your selected VPN channel.

• decoding the target direction relative to group orientation.

• choosing a source field agent to move within the target scope.

• moving the field agent to the target location.

Many other events, interactions and operations can occur.

Using Intelligence:

Analysts apply distinct methods of analysis to convert complex information into useful data.

• Basic analysis collects pieces of information from all available sources and assembles them into actionable strategic data for standard operations.

• Advanced analysis deduces missing, hidden or entangled information and assesses it as tactical risk data for special operations.

Keeping the Law:

Preliminary training will acquaint you with the essential Group governance practices and processes;

• tenets (inbuilt by design).

• protocol (general principles).

• rules of engagement (transactions & interactions). 

As an introduction, most of the protocol required for executing normal standard operations is listed here;

• manoeuvre commands are mandatory.

• the source field agent must be active.

• the scoped target location must be empty.

• moves are a single normalised unit step.

• border traversing is prohibited.

• relevant security protocol must be observed.

Special operations can circumvent standard protocol when authorised under the rules of engagement.

Accepting the Risk:

The simulation environment provides a safe and equitable platform suitable for developing analytical skills and exploring uncertainty. The more that players engage in risk, the more complexity the mechanism offers. This may seem intimidating at first but, before long, you will discover the benefit hidden just below the indeterminacy where ability and probability converge.