Scaling Force Development with VR-Forces, Orchestrate, and Hive

In this guest article, Tom Skelding, Forge Product Manager from Cervus, draws on recent experimentation work to show how teams are complementing traditional wargaming with repeatable, data-driven approaches using Forge, VR-Forces, and Hive.

Wargaming has long played a central role in force development. It gives military staffs a structured way to explore how forces and tactics might perform in different scenarios. But many approaches still rely heavily on expert judgement and manual adjudication, which makes experiments harder to scale, repeat and compare. Today, the pressures on defence experimentation are changing. Teams are being asked to test more variables, answer more complex questions, and produce evidence faster. Decision-makers need more than a compelling discussion; they need results they can use with confidence.

This is where the combination of MAK’s VR-Forces, Cervus’ Forge Orchestrate, and Hive changes the equation.