“So they may want to add an F-16 with three lasers on board to see what it could do, but they don’t muck around with the rest of the database,” he says. For most purposes they don’t need to override the values as they are sufficiently accurate, but they can add any new system they want to test. While PE offers industry users a variety of customisation options plus the ability to add and export data and hook it up to other systems, Iain McNeil says some military customers are interested in the game just for the unparalleled database, which Slitherine populated with open-source data. On top of that, each one has dozens of different load-outs for the mission that has been given.” There are probably 100 variants on the F-16 in there. “For every country around the world, if you think of something it’s in there. “We spent decades researching the data that goes into Command, and the database that’s included with the game has every conceivable weapons system, aircraft, ship and radar from 1945 up until the near future,” says Iain McNeil.

Iain McNeil says one of the attractions of Command to both the gamer and professional audience is the sheer quantity of military asset data it offers. The driving forces behind Command are father and son team JD and Iain McNeil, Slitherine CFO and CEO respectively, and WarfareSims co-founder and Director of development Dimitris Dranidis. Command PE followed in 2015, offering a physics-based battlespace environment simulation tool for military contractors and logistics, training and analysis for armed forces. Having been under development by WarfareSims since 2007, the original Command – Modern Air Naval Operations (CMANO) game was released by Slitherine’s Matrix Games in 2013. The demands of a cadre of hard-core military simulation gamers can sometimes hone a commercial game into an asset so valuable even the mighty military dollar can’t rival it, and Command Professional Edition (PE) is a case in point. Command Professional Edition (PE) offers a physics-based battlespace environment simulation tool for military contractors.

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