Central War Gaming Units

Real Action, Fake Armies

Central War Gaming force-on-force events are designed to support and promote team-based tactical activities. As part of this, you will sign up for one of two fictional units, each of which have their own equipment and uniform requirements.

(Note that there are no units or uniform requirements for training events).

Much like the Krasnovian OPFOR used by the US military during much of the Cold War, our two sides are not re-enactments, or speculative history between any two real armies, but are from entirely fictional countries in an ill-defined region of the world.

And instead of one, both sides are from these two adjacent fictional lands. Neither is the good guy, so you can pick whichever side strikes your fancy, or for which you already have the uniform and equipment. We do this because:

• It avoids ideology of real armies/nations which can be limiting or perceived as divisive, argumentative or inflammatory
• Allows us to use details of conflicts of all types to keep the events interesting, and challenging
• Allows us to use whatever equipment, organization or tactics is needed for a learning experience without being tied to a given system of a real nation
• Avoids the "that is not how they do it' arguments
• Enables improvements and changes to address new techniques, technologies and trends

Rank and Role

We also assign roles instead of using ranks. We assign roles and issue insignia to a cadre of leaders for each event. We use these instead of ranks to:

• Avoid confusion with real ranks
• Prevent assumptions that ranks are permanent between events
• Reduce assumptions that the rank a participant hold in a real organization is relevant to the CWG event
• Preserve respect for those who hold real world rank

Ardea	Team Leader	Section Leader	Platoon Leader	Platoon Commander	Deputy Commander (Troop)	Troop Commander	Deputy Commander (Squadron)	Squadron Commander
Kitoy	Team Leader	Squad Leader	Troop Leader	Platoon Commander	Deputy Commander (Company)	Company Commander	Deputy Commander (Battalion)	Battalion Commander

It should be relatively clear what the actual jobs are for each role; they follow those of the rank typically assigned to command such a unit in real world armies. Broadly speaking, Leaders have the jobs of non-commissioned officers, Commanders hold the roles of commissioned officers.

Equipment

For unit cohesion and uniformity – critical to identifying the enemy in the field – there are different uniform requirements. To aid in the realism of fighting an enemy force, there are distinct organizational and cultural differences between the two units as well.

Most required equipment is identical, but there are distinct differences in uniform, headgear, weapons systems (for Airsoft events), and some related equipment such as LBE.

Read the complete equipment list and note the highlighted differences between the two sides.