Sandy_106

Yep

That's awesome. I've always been a military/simulation geek and was wondering if there was a program that you plug in a bunch of random variables into to get a psuedo-realistic result of what would happen if 2 military forces from different eras or areas battled with one another. Currently I'm just stuck with simulating the modern USMC/US Army versus the WW2 German army in Arma 2 with some mods.

We never had something sexy to show on screen while we were working on set. Shoulda faked it with Hacker Typer.

That sounds like one of my favorite stories from /g/

What is the name of the simulation you ran and is it available for sale/download to the general public? I tried finding it for hours after watching the show but I could never find it. It looked like it was based on spreadsheets like MS Excel though.

Yeah it's just the Invasion 1944 mod for Arma 2. It adds a few dozen vehicles and about 100 weapons from WW2 into the Arma 2 engine. It's not a perfect simulation but it's being improved pretty quickly by the developer.

You can set it up so you can load the WW2 units and vehicles along with the current day equipment that's simulated in Arma 2 and have huge battles with the AI in it. Modern day obviously almost always wins unless the numbers are ~5:1, which case it's generally a toss up in wooded terrain.