Batallion Investor - user manual

This document is the user manual for ”Battalion Investor”, a computerized decision making game and exercise model. The game puts a decision maker in charge of allocation decisions in the Army in order to balance the size of the combat materiel and personnel structures. The manual first explains the various age categories of materiel and personnel in terms of their operating costs and estimated effectiveness. Thereafter the user interface is explained with instructions on how to interact with the model. Last there is advice concerning the pedagogical use of the model. ”Battalion investor” is a modified version of ”Battalion investor 2000”, which again was a modified version of ”Brigade investor 2.0”. Compared to the latter, the term “Brigade” was replaced with “Battalion”. ”Battalion investor” is translated to English and reprogrammed such that a licence for the software program is unnecessary for running the model.