Connections Conference 2020 – An AAR
by Armchair Dragoons Public Affairs Office, 19 August 2020 Wargaming professionals since the beginning of the pandemic have had to learn how to practice their art …
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Battle Lab ~ Someone Should Make A Game About Becoming A Professional Wargamer
by Or: haven’t we seen this movie before, and the sequel, and the spinoff, and the remake, and the prequel of the spinoff of the remake?
Battle Lab ~ Uses for (Professional) Wargaming
Seeing a new way to do things ~ Brant, 31 March 2020 The professionals talk about wargaming in very different terms than the casual hobbyists do. …
Analysis of Aftershock: A Humanitarian Crisis Game
Professional development through better gameplay? ~ Brant Guillory, 12 August 2019 The first tremors hit Carana around 415 in the morning, local time. The capital …
Origins 2019! War College Presentation on Inspecting the GSFG in 1988
Armchair Dragoons Public Affairs Office, 17 June 2019 First up, the presentation by COL(R) Guillory, who gave a 1-hour talk about the history behind the …
Battle Lab ~ Wargaming the Soft Factors
What aren’t we training, and why not? ~ Brant, 23 May 2019 The US military has a wargaming problem. Well, honestly, they’ve got a bunch, but …
Battle Lab ~ Recon & Intel in Wargaming, Deep Dive on COA Development
Brant Guillory, 14 May 2019 Note that this is a companion piece to the original column on recon & intel in tabletop wargaming. In the …
Battle Lab ~ Command Post Exercises at Origins, The Interview
Brant Guillory, 7 May 2019 Brant Guillory: The “Sterrett Games” at the Origins War College seem to keep growing in popularity. Aside from the nomenclature, …
Battle Lab ~ Integrating Tactical Intelligence into Board Wargaming
Brant Guillory, 10 December 2018 What is Intelligence? What is Tactical Intelligence? Intel is critical information needed to make decisions; that information is currently unknown, or …
Battle Lab ~ Civilians on Hexagonal Battlefields
Brant Guillory, 6 November 2018 The following is the set of slides from Brant’s ’06 Origins War College talk about integrating civilians into wargaming. Note …