On this page I’ll post and tools or resources I create to support the PhD and think may be of general use/interest. I may also post any particularly useful resources I find from around the net.

Trying to create some “models” to bring the things I'm reading together and which I then might be able to “operationalise” to help build the models for future games. Here's the first on on the Urban Conflict Environment (essentially to inform IPOE/IPB and planning before the battle starts).

50ish Urban Warfare Works of the last 50ish Years A single page PDF acting as a taster for my fuller Notes on a Historiography of Urban Warfare

Using comparative urban studies and related sources I've compiled a list of the most informative urban battles, based on the number of case studies on them in these sources. For more information:

• Research Note - Informative Urban Battles
• Infographic of the Most Informative Urban Battles

Using comparative urban studies and related sources I've been coding each account by the different urban characteristics mentioned in an evidence database. Currently (Apr 25) at just over 1100 entries. This has enabled me to produce the following:

• Research Note - Elements of Urban Conflict
• Heatmap of Urban Characteristic vs Battle
• Raw frequency of each Urban Characteristic

The aim is to use this analysis to drive how I prioritise looking at how characteristics are represented in the urban wargames.

• Flight from LA to Razish Urban Training Centre
  • KMZ File - http://www.taunoyen.com/resources/phd/LA-RazishTour.kmz
  • Video (~6 mins) - YouTube

• http://www.mapsymbs.com/ - Tom Mouat’s NATO APP-6 font page (and other goodies)
• Roll20 - likely to be using Roll20 for a lot of 2D game prototyping
• Tabletop Simulator - likely to be using TTS for some 3D game prototyping