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TDG 13 Recap and Analysis

Originally posted on American Partisan on June 1, 2022 TDG 13: Quick Reaction Force presented an urgent scenario that still required careful planning. There was a healthy mix of known, suspected, and unknown factors at play, which can be confusing to juggle. Let’s start with what we do and don’t know for certain: We KNOW thatContinue reading “TDG 13 Recap and Analysis”

TDG 13: Quick Reaction Force

Originally posted on American Partisan on May 31, 2022 A TDG is a Tactical Decision Game, a mental wargaming exercise designed to get you practice making tactically sound decisions in a hypothetical scenario. The ability to make sound and timely decisions based off incomplete and imperfect information is a critical skill to have, especially asContinue reading “TDG 13: Quick Reaction Force”

TDG 12 Recap and Analysis

Originally posted on American Partisan on May 25, 2022 In TDG 12: Rock and a Hard Place, you were faced with a pretty messy situation. An intimidating foe appearing where you weren’t expecting them, orders that restrict your options, and communications went down when you needed them most. Today I will analyze the situation in depthContinue reading “TDG 12 Recap and Analysis”

TDG 12: Rock and a Hard Place

Originally posted on American Partisan on May 24, 2022 I started this series called TDG (Tactical Decision Game) Tuesdays, to get you more in the mindset of how you could potentially handle a given tactical scenario with a limited amount of resources and manpower. I have decided to resurrect this series and write a coupleContinue reading “TDG 12: Rock and a Hard Place”

TDG Recap: Troop Leading Steps Part IV: Supervise

Previously, I started this new mini-series on the six troop leading steps, abbreviated as BAMCIS. Begin PlanningArrange ReconMake ReconComplete the PlanIssue the OrderSupervise Over the course of this mini-series, the TDGs have been a successive continuation of the same exercise in which you go over the complete planning and execution of a squad-sized raid onContinue reading “TDG Recap: Troop Leading Steps Part IV: Supervise”

TDG Tuesday: Troop Leading Steps Part III: Complete the Plan & Issue the Order

I started this series, TDG (Tactical Decision Game) Tuesdays, to get you more in the mindset of how you could potentially handle a given tactical scenario with a limited amount of resources and manpower. My goal is to get you to read these scenarios and think about what resources you have available, what sort of scenarios youContinue reading “TDG Tuesday: Troop Leading Steps Part III: Complete the Plan & Issue the Order”

TDG 10 Recon Results Featuring Badlands Rifleman

In last week’s Tactical Decision Game, you were assigned to plan your reconnaissance of your objective based on the Requests for Information (RFIs) that you came up with in TDG 9. Badlands Rifleman (who has a pretty cool blog and training company of his own) submitted a very detailed reconnaissance plan which he posted onContinue reading “TDG 10 Recon Results Featuring Badlands Rifleman”

TDG 10: Troop Leading Steps Part II: Arrange & Make Reconnaissance

Originally posted on American Partisan on April 18, 2021 I started this series, TDG (Tactical Decision Game) Tuesdays, to get you more in the mindset of how you could potentially handle a given tactical scenario with a limited amount of resources and manpower. My goal is to get you to read these scenarios and thinkContinue reading “TDG 10: Troop Leading Steps Part II: Arrange & Make Reconnaissance”

TDG 9: Troop Leading Steps Part I: Begin the Plan

Originally posted on American Partisan on May 11, 2021 I started this series, TDG (Tactical Decision Game) Tuesdays, to get you more in the mindset of how you could potentially handle a given tactical scenario with a limited amount of resources and manpower. My goal is to get you to read these scenarios and thinkContinue reading “TDG 9: Troop Leading Steps Part I: Begin the Plan”

TDG 8 Recap and Analysis

TDG 8: Retrans Raid presents us with a classic guerrilla warfare scenario. We have a rear echelon enemy position, isolated and lightly defended, that we can attack at our discretion. At the same time we are under-equipped, short on ammunition, and likely outnumbered. We can still accomplish our mission as long as we play ourContinue reading “TDG 8 Recap and Analysis”