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Now I wish civilians could get our hands on military simulations. But then, the HOI players and the War Thunder types are bad enough with that, giving them something more realistic would be a Bad Idea... I just want to nuke the entire Anglosphere and see what happens!
Hey, Britain, you guys fancy a game of Global Thermonuclear War? Lol.
I'd guess VBS3 is the most gamelike / general purpose milsim and that's running off of a fork of the Arma 2 engine. Which, like all Arma engines, is both impressive and terrible.
A lot of military sims are really quite basic and they're used more for things like teaching students how to park a submarine before they go touch a real (albeit still practice) one. They're not super accurate and don't include weapons often.
Ah, that's not so fun, then. I do wonder if those war hawks in strategic command are the same way about things like Hearts of Iron as lower rank and file can get about the war games where you directly operate pieces of military equipment...