Steelbeasts SimLab for Reserves Training

[CharlieB]

Evening all.

 

I have been having some discussions with my team in how to achieve mounted training for my reservists.

 

We are looking to scope the option of a Sim Lab to run SB to deliver crew, Tp and Sqn training.

 

I would welcome thoughts on what we might need - especially from those who are already using it for this function:

 

My initial thoughts are:

 

Excon x 1 

Blue Roleplayer x 2 (Inf, Engrs, Arty, flanking etc etc...)

OPFOR Roleplayer x1 (the meanies)

 

Training troops x 18

 

Means I could do:

 

• Commanders only (18 computers)
• Gunners and Commanders (2 Tps of 4 = 16 computers)
• Gunners Commanders and Drivers (1 Tp = 12 computers)

 

Max total number of computers = 22.

 

I am thinking laptops for ease of setup and storage etc - an idea of what I should be looking at would also be very helpful.

 

Clearly we are going to have to apply for funding so I can't kick the arse out of it - but it needs to work.

 

Clearly SB liceneces would be required and that will be $115 x 22 = $2,530 - unless there is a smarter way of doing this...

 

Thoughts welcome.

 

Cheers - CharlieB

 

 

[Gibsonm]

@CharlieB We have been doing this for a while.

 

20 or so Sec Trunks comprising:

 

40x Laptops, joysticks and mice,

several "driver" steering wheels

3 x Switches

Qty Ethernet

LitePro

Portable screen.

 

The ADF is a military customer so we had 2 x 50 user dongles - which allowed us to run two separate concurrent activities on different LANs.

 

I'll see if I can find:

 

a. The thread here from a while ago

b. The post Trials report - this will likely be via PM or email.

 

Edited November 20, 2022 by Gibsonm

[Gibsonm]

There you are:

 

 

[Ssnake]

8 hours ago, CharlieB said:

I have been having some discussions with my team in how to achieve mounted training for my reservists.

We are looking to scope the option of a Sim Lab to run SB to deliver crew, Tp and Sqn training.

I would welcome thoughts on what we might need - especially from those who are already using it for this function:

Max total number of computers = 22.

I am thinking laptops for ease of setup and storage etc - an idea of what I should be looking at would also be very helpful.

My recommendation would be a 4...12 core CPU; depending on the brand and your budget you may end up on the lower or higher end of that spectrum. 8 GByte RAM, possibly 16. GPU is something that you should decide at the last minute. There's some motion in the market (Intel with Iris GPUs; they're not quite there yet but may become a contender in six...twelve months).

 

Your choice of Steel Beasts licenses, well, contact me by email.

[CharlieB]

Thanks both for the comments. I’ll drop you both a direct message tomorrow.  Really helpful.

[Hedgehog]

Good Luck!

Hope you get some traction with this

 

[RedWardancer]

You COULD hire us treadheads...😎

[RooksAndKings]

11 hours ago, RedWardancer said:

You COULD hire us treadheads...😎

There's hope! 😁

[Gibsonm]

11 hours ago, RedWardancer said:

You COULD hire us treadheads...😎

 

12 minutes ago, RooksAndKings said:

There's hope! 😁

 

He's referring to providing this training to part time Reservists / Territorials - with a very limited number of support staff, presumably on site in the UK

 

Having said that I'm yet to receive the PM / email.

[CharlieB]

Been in the throws of changing day jobs - PM inbound...

[CharlieB]

On 11/19/2022 at 8:32 PM, Gibsonm said:

There you are:

 

 

Mark,

 

Really helpful - I've finally sent the PM - its got me personal and military emails on to use.  One of my Troop Leaders is keen to take the lead.

[Gibsonm]

11 minutes ago, CharlieB said:

Mark,

 

Really helpful - I've finally sent the PM - its got me personal and military emails on to use.  One of my Troop Leaders is keen to take the lead.

 

All good.

 

You have my reply. More to follow.

[Hedgehog]

@CharlieB

Let me know if you need a hand with mission making testing etc

[CharlieB]

Cheers. Got to get the BC written and approved first…