Hormuz War Game

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Hormuz Toll. Teach industrial and market math, not a Hollywood carrier charge.

Role: Implementer

First slice is on the board.

Sentinel-2 crop of the pinch, dummy mine circles that grow, two tanker doors (Omani ribbon or Iran toll), and a seeded price meter on the map. You run Greece, Inc. this slice. Twelve hulls. Freight follows the price. A lost hull is the ship plus the families. Captains balk after blood. Oil is not yours. Wait makes US punch holes and Iran lay. Veto the math, not the chrome.

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Pitch

  • Play the Strait of Hormuz as the US, Iran, or Greece, Inc.
  • The US wins by making oil cheap without donating a prestige hull.
  • Iran wins by fear, insurance death, and a living resupply pipeline, not by occupying water.
  • The owner wins on the books. Freight follows the price. A kill is not one-and-done.

The lesson

  1. 01Bomb factories. Bomb storehouses. Then play whack-a-mole on launch sites you can see.
  2. 02Invite a carrier into the two-mile lane and you volunteered the next mole.
  3. 03Mines drift. Their uncertainty blob grows every turn.
  4. 04One mine kill ends the lane's paper. A voyage policy you bought still pays that hull. Then you go naked.
  5. 05Paying Iran funds the next wave and does not sweep. Mines drift. The percent on a door is mine kill, not a missile volley.
  6. 06Wait is not a skip. US sinks minelayers. Iran seeds the TSS. Sitting still is a turn.
  7. 07Greed is a fat trader bonus when oil is high. After blood, captains can still say no.
  8. 08High price is itself a factory. China and Russia are the quiet factory.
  9. 09Pipelines take years. Contracts take a week. The market prices the week.

Decisions locked (veto in chat)

  1. ADR-001TypeScript MVVM, not vanilla JS files
  2. ADR-002Header is Hormuz War Game. Sim name is Hormuz Toll.
  3. ADR-003Auth off. Database off.
  4. ADR-004Sim space is nautical miles. Photo is scenery.
  5. ADR-005Seeded RNG so gameplay tests replay.
  6. ADR-006Receipts live in the Model. /receipts renders the catalog.
  7. ADR-007Static image + SVG overlay. No Leaflet in v1.
  8. ADR-008AI is scripted tendencies, not a solver.
  9. ADR-009Public repo twinforces/hormuzboardgame
  10. ADR-010Implementer starts at circles vs path, with tests.
  11. ADR-011Map is NASA Blue Marble crop plus SVG overlay.
  12. ADR-012Navy Decoded ingest is honest: partial until a full transcript lands.
  13. ADR-013Price P is a seeded teaching index, correlated to history, never live.
  14. ADR-014Sentinel-2 cloudless replaces Blue Marble at this zoom. Same bbox.
  15. ADR-015Navy Decoded full ASR is blocked here. Paste or walk captions in chunks.
  16. ADR-016Owner clicks the US ribbon near Oman or the Iran track by Larak. Wait spends both factions.
  17. ADR-017Player runs a VLCC house. Books: freight, hull writeoff, families.
  18. ADR-018Greece, Inc. Twelve hulls. Freight follows P. Captains balk after blood. Oil is the trader's.
  19. ADR-019War-risk checkbox before a door. Tolls on the books. Loss dialog names mine kill.
  20. ADR-020Anti-Mine Warfare is the US sitting. Strikes tab inland. Strait tab shows traffic.
  21. ADR-021Two plants, two sheds. Radar blinds drones. A ship hit lights a spider hole.
  22. ADR-022A lost hull lights a spider hole. Mine or shot.
  23. ADR-023Traffic balks after blood until the Navy sweeps.
  24. ADR-024Leaving a spider hole dumps it. That is the vanish.
  25. ADR-025Leaving a hole is a confirm, not a silent click.
  26. ADR-026Iran is Mine Warfare. Lay, surge, or hold. The Navy bombs roofs. Fear, not occupation.
  27. ADR-027After the sheds die, Iran Lay dumps a coastal cell. Four cells. Then dry.
  28. ADR-028Fog clips to water. Plan Strikes sits on the strait window.
  29. ADR-029EN / فا switch. Farsi is RTL. Header title stays Hormuz War Game.

Full write-up on the Architecture page. Sources on Receipts.

Decisions closed this pass

  1. Map art was a NASA Blue Marble crop. At this zoom it read as green noise (Iranian hills in a vegetation composite). Live plate is Sentinel-2 cloudless on the same bbox. TSS is traced in SVG. Photo is scenery.
  2. Navy Decoded ingest ran against indexed captions. Full ASR dump from this environment is blocked. Snippets are still marked partial. Quotes that landed are in the catalog.
  3. Price meter P is a seeded teaching index in USD/bbl flavor, correlated to historical Brent markers. It is not a live EIA tick.