Game Night: The Great Panic

There's a lot of talk about AI and wargaming right now. Here's your chance to actually see it.

WWN is hosting a live run of The Great Panic, run on Providence — ExpertTheory's end-to-end AI-powered wargame platform. Developed with World War Z author Max Brooks, the scenario drops you and your team into the opening hours of a global zombie outbreak: institutional collapse, cascading government failures, a panicking public, and impossible decisions about what — and who — to prioritize. The undead are the backdrop. Everything else is the game.

The game will be facilitated by WWN's own COO and Chair of Programming, Eleanor Ross, and Jesse Nimons, Providence's product owner — giving WWN members an exclusive look at how AI is being integrated across the wargaming workflow. With AI, wargamers can now accelerate scenario generation, turn releases, adjudication, and after-action review, allowing complex multiplayer games to run at speed…