Still playing Battlefield One, though the new Civilization is tempting.

I remember in the ‘90s the US Air Force saying that primary flight training went a lot quicker because thanks to video games the trainees came in with a baseline intuitive sense of how to fly an airplane.

I wonder if the same holds true for foot soldiers now. I’m realizing that from playing this stuff, I’ve developed an intuitive sense of how to breach and clear rooms in teams, how to plan an advance under cover and how to mount a reverse slope defense, how to overlap fields of fire, enfilade and defilade.

You know what would be a good premise for a terrain-combat game? “Bandit Country”, about the IRA in South Armagh and their use of “dead ground” to attack observation towers. It’d make for shitty multiplayer though, the British Army side would be “maintain constant vigilance, very very occasionally you explode”