Incorporation of Physical Fitness in a Tactical Infantry Simulation

摘要

While physical fitness is generally accepted to influence the outcome on the battlefield, it is not incorporated into tactical infantry simulations. Rushing is a battlefield task influenced by physical fitness[1-2] that can be incorporated into an infantry simulationfl]. In this paper, rushing speed is demonstrated to influence simulation results in an infantry simulation by affecting survivability of the rusher. Two scenarios were implemented in agent based simulations to demonstrate the effect of rushing speed upon the outcome of a tactical scenario. Preliminary results from the simulations match those predicted by a investigative model implemented in Microsoft Excel [3]. In these simulations rushing speed significantly affected the survivability of the individual soldier and the scenario outcome. Rushing speed as predicted by physical fitness is a viable input parameter for infantry simulations as it can affect the outcome of tactical simulation scenarios.