New game Future force.

[Mr Grumpy]

A new release some of you guys might find intresting...

HPS Simulations is proud to announce the upcoming release of Future Force, a Jim Lunsford Game

Future Force was designed to help train military leaders in force management and resource allocation. It is not a traditional type of wargame. Instead, it puts players in the position of a national planner, making decisions about what force structure to create and maintain, where to allocate resources, and how to effectively manage the armed forces’ budget during a simulated twenty-year period while facing current and emerging threats.

During the game, the player seeks to find balance between the following tasks:
• Conduct intelligence & counterintelligence
• Prioritize theaters of operations
• Manage strategic lift capability
• Create new units
• Update existing unit capability
• Conduct Research & Development
Future Force models planning, allocation of forces, and research and development. The overall concepts are straightforward, but the game offers players complexity if they want it. With unpredictably (as in real life), each scenario is different, and each game is challenging. Operations take place within Areas of Operation (Peacetime Military Engagement, Irregular Warfare, and Major Combat Operations), and may change during the game year (stability). Unpredictably (as in real life), each game is different, and each game is challenging.
Future Force has proven popular with both military and civilian gamers, and has numerous applications for training, education and competition.
Designer Jim Lunsford served as a U.S. Army infantry officer for twenty years and has done a tour as tactics instructor at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. Many of the games he has designed are used by the armed forces for training, such as HPS’s Decisive Action.

Future Force Play Options
• Single player vs. the AI
• Two player hot-seat
• Internet
• LAN
• Play by e-mail
System Requirements
• 400 MHz Pentium
• Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7
• 512 MB of RAM
• 360 MB free space on hard drive
• CD/DVD drive
• DirectX version 7 or higher
• TCP/IP network card and an Internet connection for multi-player games.

[Al]

Here's the link to Decisive Point Software which will give info on what the company is all about. Interesting stuff.

http://www.decisive-point.com/

[DaveK]

Holy cr*p. I don't know whether to be impressed or horrified that HPS put this out.

First, I would have bet money on them finally going out of business. That place has been deader than a graveyard since Tiller left.

Second, this... "game"... I've suddenly got flashbacks to my force planning classes in grad school fifteen years ago. Heck, flashbacks to my *job* not terribly long ago. Please tell me you can export all this to Powerpoint?

This isn't a game; this is homework. :conf:

[Gasbag]

I bought Jim Lunsford's DTR (Defending The Reich) when it came out in 2006 & I really enjoyed it (I still play it from time to time). It was an attractive title simulating an often neglected aspect of WW II & it didn't have a steep learning curve.

This new game looks like more like business software than a wargame.

I don't mean to offend anyone but Future Force definitely isn't for me...