New column: Tracer Rounds!

Started by bayonetbrant, January 04, 2016, 11:22:55 AM

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bayonetbrant

new one was up yesterday for your amusement and/or criticism :)
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Airborne Rifles

Good stuff Brant. I'm going to steal your ideas for my own classroom methods kit bag  O0.

MetalDog

You said in the article that the fourth use of wargaming, the people weren't being graded on it.  But, there were various foreign nationals in the program.  Is it possible that, while not being graded, their responses were 'filed away for later use?' 


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bayonetbrant

The key to surviving this site is to not say something which ends up as someone's tag line - Steelgrave

"their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights'...and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure." Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers

MetalDog

And the One Song to Rule Them All is Gimme Shelter - Rolling Stones


"If its a Balrog, I don't think you get an option to not consent......." - bob

bayonetbrant

The key to surviving this site is to not say something which ends up as someone's tag line - Steelgrave

"their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights'...and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure." Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers

MetalDog

Nicely done, Brant.  Love Civ, too.  And just about any game that can give me a good Civ 'feeling.'
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Martok

Quote from: bayonetbrant on January 18, 2016, 03:47:49 PM
New one today
Nice!  I have to ask, though:  Any love for space/fantasy 4x games as well, or are you mostly a sucker for historical 4x titles (ala the Civilization franchise)?  Just curious. 

Of course when it comes to tabletop 4x games, my favorite will probably always be Twilight Imperium, despite its complexity and the ridiculous amount of time it takes to play. 
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bayonetbrant

never been a big sucker for the space games, but I think that's largely from not playing/being exposed to them much.  But I've always been more fantasy/history inclined (in all my gaming) than sci-fi inclined, even tho I read a lot of sci-fi books.
The key to surviving this site is to not say something which ends up as someone's tag line - Steelgrave

"their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights'...and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure." Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers

Airborne Rifles

Brant, saw this today about wargaming at the Naval Postgraduate School and thought of your second Tracer Rounds article:

http://navylive.dodlive.mil/2016/01/20/wargaming-is-alive-and-well-at-nps/?platform=hootsuite

bayonetbrant

Quote from: Airborne Rifles on January 21, 2016, 08:38:46 AM
Brant, saw this today about wargaming at the Naval Postgraduate School and thought of your second Tracer Rounds article:

http://navylive.dodlive.mil/2016/01/20/wargaming-is-alive-and-well-at-nps/?platform=hootsuite

Thanks - I actually know a few of the wargame guys there.  One of them was the S1 in my ARNG BN back in CA.
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bayonetbrant

It's Monday.  It's Tracer Rounds.
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"their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights'...and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure." Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers

Barthheart

Ha! Great piece..... that's exactly how I feel when you want me to write a review. I thought it was just me being lazy.  :P

MetalDog

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