Battle Lab ~ Hobby & Practitioner Wargaming Overlaps & Divergences
by Brant Guillory, 25 July 2025 Here at the Armchair Dragoons, we make it a point to address middle of the wargaming Venn Diagram where hobbyists …
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Battle Lab ~ Professional Cheerleading Gone Wrong, or “Why Did CIMSEC Even Publish This?”
Brant Guillory, 22 January 2023 Some weeks ago, CIMSEC published Wargaming The Future: Educating The Fleet In Multi-Dimensional Warfare. We called it out in #TuesdayNewsday …
Battle Lab ~ (Counter)Recon and the Intel Fight
Brant Guillory, 13 April 2023 Reconnaissance is a central tool in every commander’s toolbox, and capable of dramatically swinging the outcomes of battles. While there …
Battle Lab ~ Defining “Logistics” for Wargames
Brant Guillory, 14 March 2022 Anyone watching the news knows that the Russian invasion of Ukraine is not off to a great start, for a …
Battle Lab ~ Another “Resurgence” of Military Wargaming
Brant Guillory, 16 December 2020 The military wants to ‘get back’ to wargaming. Are they serious this time? ~ There’s been a recent trend in …
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Battle Lab ~ Team COIN Wargaming – A “How To” Primer
Brant Guillory, 12 September 2020 It’s hard to overstate the influence that the COIN series of games has had on the wargaming world over the …
Battle Lab ~ Someone Should Make A Game About Becoming A Professional Wargamer
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 ~ What’s In Your Collection?
Rapid fire thoughts about your game acquisitions ~ Brant, 27 April 2020 Plenty of us have a stack of wargames that we haven’t played yet. …
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. …
Battle Lab ~ Do We Really Need Another ____ Game?!
Brant Guillory, 2 July 2019 There’s an interesting thread / discussion over at BoardGameGeek about an oft-tread topic of “how many ____ games do we …