Archive For The “Conventions” Category
Avery Abernethy, 20 June 2019
Origins Game Fair 2019 was a lot of fun. I arrived at 8:00am on Wednesday and helped set up Rogue Cthulhu. My gaming started at noon Wednesday and continued through Sunday afternoon. My gaming experience touched heavily to lightly on ten organizations. This reviews my experience with the ten organizations, not the games themselves. I ran one session and played in thirteen sessions. Most of my Origins experience is as a player.
Organizations run a substantial, if not a supra-majority of the 7,000+ Origins events. Organizations propose sessions to Origins with Origins determining the overall schedule and assigning session numbers to the submitted events. Origins also handles individual registration, handing out free passes and even hotel rooms to some event organizers, plus selling dealer space and individual memberships. I’m sure much more goes on behind the scenes but I’m only writing about my direct experience.
Armchair Dragoons Public Affairs Office, 19 June 2019
COL(R) Guillory discusses his time in the 59th Ordnance Brigade, who were the nuclear weapons custodians for many of the NATO allies during the Cold War.
This presentation is on the mission & organization of the 59th Ordnance Brigade (and its predecessor, SASCOM) from Cold War-era Europe. Some discussion of the specific types & quantities of warheads held by the detachments, as well as their expected field operations during wartime. The audience Q&A also includes a discussion of the US Pershing II missiles of the 56th Field Artillery Command, which was not a part of the 59th ORD BDE but was another unit in which COL(R) Guillory served in the 1980s.
Spread from Jutland to Turkey, the 59th’s disparate artillery detachments maintained & deployed tactical nuclear weapons to allied delivery systems, whether 155mm howitzer rounds, or Pershing 1a missiles. Several ordnance battalions within the brigade also maintained the stocks of nuclear & chemical weapons for US use.
The video is approximately 45 minutes, and includes multiples questions with the audience.
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Armchair Dragoons Public Affairs Office, 18 June 2019
Our intrepid IMINT team was able to get a drone’s-eye view of the convention…
Some of these are the exhibit hall, and others are the gaming halls. All are very cool.
But the best view of all?
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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 inspections, the actual on-the-ground time in the former East Germany observing the GSFG, and then some lessons learned.
Now, here’s the gallery of photos that were flipped through rather quickly at the end of the formal presentation
The black-&-white photos were the “technical” photos that were primarily for the intel community. The color photos were colloquially known as “happy snaps” and were more personal/experiential in nature.
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Armchair Dragoons Public Affairs Office, 15 June 2019
Plenty of games have been hitting the tables here at Origins
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Armchair Dragoons Public Affairs Office, 13 June 2019
The IMINT team is still on high alert throughout the show, capturing scenes from the gaming halls, the exhibit hall, and yes the Armchair Dragoons Wargaming HQ™
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