Wargaming has a long history as a tool for understanding the complexity of conflict. However, though wargames have shown their relevance across topics and time, the immersive nature of wargames and the guild-like communities that surround them have often resisted the social scientific advances...

Political scientists are increasingly integrating wargames into their research. Either by fieldingoriginal games as a data-generating process or by leveraging archival wargame materials,researchers can study rare events or topics where data are difficult to obtain. Scholars, however,have little...