22 August

What's New in This Release

This release completes Superteams by adding full support for Pattern of Life (PoL) content, building on last week's release, which introduced Superteams for MEL.

This release also adds five new ready-to-use Ventura scenarios to the content library, covering supply chain disruption, AI failure, severe weather, and cyber attack themes.

New Features

Superteams for Pattern of Life (PoL)

What's new

Following last week's release of Superteams for MEL content, this release adds full support for publishing Pattern of Life (PoL) to Superteams. Designers can now run PoL stacks against collections of teams. Facilitators can move teams to Superteams and set Staxs to run to a Superteam during an exercise.

Why it matters

For exercise designers, this removes the need to duplicate Pattern of Life content for what is effectively the same audience across multiple teams. For facilitators, it completes dynamic "branching" on a live exercise by moving a team into a Superteam to show the consequences of a decision, with the PoL stack publishing accordingly.

Key Features

• Publish PoL stacks to Superteams

• Move teams between Superteams and change a stax to sent to Superteam live

• Superteam PoL queues allocated per licence

Licence

Osprey and Eagle

⚙️How it works

• In a live exercise, teams can be moved, added, or removed from Superteams, but any running PoL stack will continue with the previous setup. Recommended approach: stop the PoL stack, update the Superteams, then restart the PoL stack.

• PoL queue allocation for Superteams is based on the number of teams inside the Superteam. For example, on an Eagle licence, starting a stack ("Angry Customers") targeting a Superteam with 5 teams uses 5 of your available queues.

  • Osprey: 16 queues

  • Eagle: 25 queues

Use Case Example

A facilitator moves the "Big Bank" team into the "Challenger Banks" Superteam mid-exercise. Now when the Challenger Banks stax runs, Big Bank will get the content. Note that the stack has to be stopped and then started before Big Bank gets the content.

Technology Improvements

New Ventura Scenarios

This release adds five new scenarios to the Ventura content library:

Rolling Blackouts. A record UK heatwave is pushing the national grid to breaking point. Refrigeration is already failing at several stores as rota power cuts are confirmed for the evening. You're under pressure to act before stock, safety, and reputation take the hit. (Language: English | Type: Operations, Supply Chain, Reputation)

Strait Closure. Following geopolitical instability, the Strait of Andistan is closed. Working for a manufacturing company in France, the player must manage the disruption to their construction projects, facing pressure from Government to deliver on time. (Language: English | Type: Supply Chain, Operations)

AI Failure. A major shared AI services provider, embedded across your operations, communications, and demand forecasting tools, has suffered an unknown service degradation. There is no outage and outputs continue to look professional and plausible, but things are starting to go wrong. (Language: English | Type: Reputation, Supply Chain, Operations)

Severe Weather. Step into the leadership team of a major insurer as a severe weather event triggers a surge in claims at the exact moment a critical digital supplier begins to fail. Customer portals slow, call volumes spike, claims queues grow, and an AI-assisted triage system begins producing inconsistent results. (Language: English | Type: Reputation, Operations)

Data Breach. An Italian bank suffers a data breach, impacting customer trust and brand reputation as you struggle to maintain normal operations and protect client data. (Language: Italian | Type: Cyber Attack)

Fixes and Improvements

This release also includes a number of refinements.