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What have you learned from wargaming?
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Eric Walters Oct 27.

 

Brant Guillory - Game Commando, BayonetGames

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Your introduction to consim gaming:
I'm Brant, the wargame-design half of BayonetGames. Currently in Raleigh, NC, but with regular jaunts to Columbus, OH, and Monterey, CA. I love modern-era gaming, prefer face-to-face over the tabletop to any kind of digital gaming.
Your favorite game(s):
Warfighter series; SPI's Modern Battles quads; Lock'n'Load; World at War; Next Wars; Heroscape with my 6-year-old son
What game(s) are you currently playing (solitaire, FTF, PBEM, etc.) or wish to play next?
Warfighter series (Asian Thunder & World of Conflict), Next Wars I: Orange Crush; finally cleared the Siege of Eisenbach from the desk at work; Looking forward to CC: Dawn's Early Light
What game(s) have you played recently?
Lots of new 4E D&D (at work); Lots of HALO with the videogamers at work (finally getting the hang of it)
Wargames: Warfighter series (Asian Thunder & World of Conflict), Next Wars I: Orange Crush, World at War series from LnL.
Non-Wargames: Carcassonne: Hunters & Gatherers and Kids of... ; Castle Keep; Ticket to Ride...
In general, how much time do you spend gaming?
Not enough!
How big is your game collection?
Wargames: 35-40 or so; Eurogames: 10-12; RPG products: 180 or so
Your local game club(s) and/or where you reside (let's network!)
Raleigh, NC (Triangle area); frequent trips to Columbus (CABS)... no local club around Raleigh, yet - hoping to start one soon
About Me
14 years in the military (split active/nat'l guard); 21 years as Army brat; work for a defense contractor doing software design and some training management; write for Wargamer.com and a few others; love games with buckets of dice, and tho I can't stand the game, I have a fondness for the collectible D&D minis; I love finding neat games from small unknown publishers
Personal Interests (favorite activities, movies, shows, books, music, etc.)
Favorite Movies: Ronin; Ocean's 11 (2001); Farewell to the King; Hi-Fidelity; Singles
Favorite TV Shows: Big Bang Theory; Heroes; How I Met Your Mother; That 70s Show (been catching up on DVDs); seriously wishing there was a way to revive Studio 60
Favorite Sports: Soccer (USMNT, Newcastle United, Columbus Crew); College Football (NC State, South Carolina, LSU); Baseball (Astros); NHL (Hurricanes)

I dig hiking and biking outside with my son, and flat-water kayaking when the weather's nice. I like traveling and checking out historical locations (Stirling, Scotland is a great under-rated historical destination). My wife is a fantastic photographer, so we usually get postcard-quality pictures out of our trips, too.
Website:
http://www.bayonetgames.com

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At 7:50pm on August 21, 2009, Kai Jensen said…
Brant, you may have gotten only one comment after all your work. But you will never know how many people actually checked out your stuff, though to themselves "Cool!" and went on their merry way. I don't comment on much, but I check out a LOT of stuff on here. And I appreciate the effort you put into your additions!
At 5:45am on July 4, 2009, Katie said…
How did you add the music?
At 10:00am on June 29, 2009, Tom Meier said…
Brant,

Maybe we'll link up next time. This was my first Origins, so there was lots I didn't see. I did make it up to the board wargaming area briefly and talked to Mike Reed and John Kisner, but then we were off exploring.

I went this year to play in the FoW Tourny - it was two days - so that was where I hung out a lot.

Nice time, I'll probably be back.
At 7:16am on June 29, 2009, Smitty said…
We only got out for Thursday - out and back due to the issues with KAtie's father.
At 7:58am on June 24, 2009, Tom Meier said…
Brant,

It all has worked out and I am on my way to Origins, I hope to meet you there somewhere.

I like your new pic.
At 9:34am on May 8, 2009, David Kazmierczak said…
No relationship to Joseph Kazmierczak as far as I know.
At 5:51pm on April 15, 2009, Byron Collins said…
Brant, sorry. I called you Dan 'cuz I was thinking Dan Verssen.

Byron
At 5:51pm on April 15, 2009, Byron Collins said…
Dan, thanks but I think he's actually looking for Dan Verssen's "Frontline D-Day" card game- similar title to my Frontline General games. I did not see any rules for the game posted on DVG's site though...

http://www.dvg.com/.sc/ms/dd/ee/26/Frontline%20-%20D-Day
At 2:50pm on March 16, 2009, Scott Udell said…
Nope, wasn't there--as a software engineer I don't go on the road much any more unless we're rolling out a major new piece of software/updates. Mostly we're connected back to LVN so we can fix stuff from here.
At 8:27pm on November 14, 2008, Smitty said…
The whole F & M thing is "sad".

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Liveblogging Warfighter game 2

Starting over with some corrected setup info, and giving the Azeris a new lease on life.



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Posted on November 27, 2009 at 3:44pm — 9 Comments

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Counterattack at Salyan - Liveblogging today's Warfighter game

Following the Iranian assault on Salyan, and initial capture of the city, the Iranians pulled out of the area to avoid a protracted occupation battle in Salyan. In the meantime, the Azeris have pieced together a mech infantry company, and the US landed a Stryker infantry company at the airfield to join the fight.

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Posted on November 27, 2009 at 2:00pm — 12 Comments

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And there was much rejoicing!

It looks like the forum is back live again! :)

Posted on August 17, 2009 at 9:25am — 9 Comments

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Interesting discussion of WW3 hypotheticals

There's an interesting discussion of hypotheticals around a 1985 WW3 over at Wargamer.com

http://www.wargamer.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=363867

I figure that while talk.csw is down, some of you might want to jump into the conversation over there.

There's also a thread about the air war that might've happened at the same time, but the ground war… Continue

Posted on August 8, 2009 at 8:00am — 2 Comments

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Warfighter Across the World!

Foreground is the reconfigured World of Conflict maps from The Guards, playing out a rewritten version of one of the older scenarios.

Background is Asian Thunder, with Chris (R) and John (L) banging it out.

Chris and John fought the first battle of Africa (that was called off after turn 6 b/c of lack of ass-whupping).
Brian (R) and Steve (L) fought the second.

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Posted on August 7, 2009 at 9:42pm —

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