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Cooperation in a Hybrid Threats Environment for Strategic Interagency Organization

Information superiority starts with coordination.

COHESION is a digital wargame for strategic interagency coordination and communication. Two states, ten ministries, one public — and the question of whose narrative gets through.

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The setup in numbers

Scalable from a small exercise to a multinational workshop

Factions
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RED, BLUE and a playable public

Teams
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plus Audiences and Media

Participants
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Ideally 45-64, more on request

Per round
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20 strategy · 60 core · 10 feedback

Trailer

See a round in motion.

The platform, the channels and the pressure of a live information environment.

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Subtitles

Audio and subtitles switch independently — German narration with English subtitles is the recommended combination for international audiences.

01 — The platform

The information environment that plays back.

Not a board game with action cards, but a fully interactive information environment.

Click through the channels — each one behaves like the app it stands for.

cohesion.mnioe.com — MoD Perantsa · Y Round 2 running
website@gov.peBL_HoG_web
Web
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tmToksMik
Instructions
Email15
Chat
TV2
Adjudicator
Social Watch
Timer
Trends
#blackoutrecovery1,204
#amaxadam987
#peranstrong640
#taxtherich413
#zezouicvoices288

Reproduction of the gameplay interface · content illustrative only

02 — Situational picture

Broadcast only? Lose the thread!

Social Watch shows what is being talked about.

The situational picture is part of the gameplay — not a report afterwards.

#amaxadam

987 posts · last 15 min
“Since when was that dam known to be a risk?”
Morning Ledger: water levels still critical
“The engineers have been working through the night.”

#blackoutrecovery

1,204 posts · last 15 min
MoI: Sorell Bay substation back on the grid
“When does power return in Delmar?”
Karti Daily: “Government hides the true scale”

#zezouicvoices

288 posts · last 15 min
“Help reached us last. As always.”
Zeo's Eye: “Who exactly is being forgotten here?”
Independent Voice puts the figures in context
supportiveneutralopposed
03 — Factions

Three sides. One decides.

RED and BLUE never compete against each other directly. They compete for GREEN.

LegendCOLORTeam Position
Country: Karti

RED

HoG
MoDMoIMoEMoFa
Your Ministry
Social
Media
Coordi­nator
Website
(Opt.)
Support 1
(Opt.)
Support 2
Public: in Perantsa

GREEN

Press / Media
Students
Students
Retirees
Retirees
Zezouics
Zezouics
Country: Perantsa

BLUE

HoG
MoDMoIMoEMoEd
Your Ministry
Social
Media
Coordi­nator
Website
(Opt.)
Support 1
(Opt.)
Support 2

COHESION Game Structure

Blue

Perantsa

Five ministries of a democracy. Separate rooms, different levels of information — coordination takes real effort.

  • Policy decisions with four options
  • Bonus for a unified narrative
  • Structurally disadvantaged, by design
Red

Karti

Centrally steered, around one table. The structural advantage of an authoritarian regime — plus tools BLUE does not have.

  • Troll accounts and copycat media
  • No regard for the factual record
  • Objective: erode trust
Green

The public

Target audiences and a rich media landscape played by real people - as unpredictable as a real audience.

  • Legitimate media and disinformation outlets
  • Rates at the end of each round
  • No GREEN, no result
04 — Sequence

One round, three phases.

Coordination takes time, but may provide an edge over your opponent!

PRE-ROUNDCORE TIMEPOST-ROUND 20 min10 min Day 2Day 3 Day 4Day 5 60 MIN · 4 GAME DAYS OF 15 MIN Submit core messages Injects arrive · media report · the other side works against you GREEN rates
Pre-round · 20 min

Define the core message

Each team plans its strategy and specifies the core message it wants to convey to audiences.

Core time · 60 min

Deliver under pressure

Four game days of 15 minutes each. Your strategic intent has to become concrete posts — right channel, right tone, right moment.

Post-round · 10 min

Adjudication

GREEN rates what actually landed. RED and BLUE debrief internally. Then the round result stands.

05 — Team Green

Three audiences, three fault lines.

If you want to convince them, you need to understand their concerns.

Students
Audience 01

Students

Left-leaning, digital, impatient. Angry about the lack of places on IT courses — and quick to pile in once a scandal gains traction.

The Independent VoiceSocial firstSceptical of official language
Trust in Perantsa+0.9
Retirees
Audience 02

Retirees

Conservative and security-minded. Worried about falling pensions and respectful of the military and the police — reachable through established media, not hashtags.

Peran TimesMorning LedgerLoyal to institutions
Trust in Perantsa+1.4
Zezouics
Audience 03

Zezouics

A religious minority, around a fifth of the population. Cross-border ties to Karti, historically disadvantaged — the fault line RED aims at.

Zeo's EyeKarti Daily NewsDistrustful of Peran
Trust in Perantsa−0.7
06 — Adjudication

Not volume. Effect.

COHESION implements a first-in-class flexible adjudication system. Audiences rate the core messages the players defined - not a static matrix game but a dynamic experience.

Adjudication is fully flexible with user-configurable weightings.

  • Not noticed → all further dimensions are skipped
  • Trust recorded separately for Perantsa and Karti
  • Bonus for a unified narrative from BLUE
Example: Core message · Round 2 · Students
“Your safety comes first. We are working to return daily life to normal as quickly as we responsibly can.”

To what extent did you notice this message?

0
1
2
3
4

How did it affect your trust in Perantsa?

−2
−1
0
+1
+2

How did it affect your trust in Karti?

−2
−1
0
+1
+2
Weighted value of this message0.0
07 — Delivery

On site, distributed or mixed.

Entirely browser-based, no installation. Runs from 20 participants, ideally 45 or more.

90 minutes per round, three rounds maximum.

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