Who was who?


The French
Perry Andrus Raffin 3/205, 3/45 and 4 BCC
Arnaud Bouis Ghesquieres 4 BCC, 3/49, 6 GRDI
John Caskey Monnet 1-2/205 + 4 BCC +1/45
Nadir El-Farra Bertin-Bossu 1/67 + 2/45
Mike Kroona Jarret 6 GRDI, 2/49
Matt Means Flavigny French OC, 1-2/49
O'D LaFontaine 3/67, 42 BCC
Mark Veerman ??? 16 BCP

The Germans
Jim Dunnam von Stockhausen Overall Commander
Wig Graves (dropped) Graf I GD
Markus Kaessbohrer Griem, Katzenborn II/GD, I/69
John Lang Griem II/GD
Jim Lauffenburger ??? I/GD, II/69, Lehr
Rich Rubin Lange 4-II-8, Lehr, Kg Lange
Pedro Santos Garski et al III GD, 6-II-8, 90 Aufk.



Player Bios

Lee Forester (Moderator)
I'm 35, married with one pre-gamer (3yr old boy), teach German/Russian/Dutch/Interdisciplinary Studies/Lingustics as Hope College (small liberal arts college). Got into gaming at age 10 and am now back into it after many years off because of The Gamers stuff.

Mike Kroona
I'm 38, married , with three kids. I'm currently a Lutheran pastor serving in Iowa. I've been playing wargames since high school and discovered the stuff by The Gamers a little over a year. I've enjoyed the Gamers e-mail list and the discussions that go on.

Jim Lauffenburger
I'm 40 years old, with a wife and 4 kids, (both of which really chew into the gaming time available), and have been playing wargames since 1968. I'm an electrical engineer, own a consulting business (which eats up the rest of my available time), doing custom integrated circuit design. My favorite games (ignoring all of The Gamers products...) are Chickamauga and Soldiers by West End.

Pedro Santos
My name is Pedro Santos, from Portugal, I'am 28 years old. I'm married and have a 19 months old dauther. I am a posgrad student in Germany (Mathmatics). I play wargames since I was 10 years old (the first ones were designed by myself). My experience with the TCS before this game was very restricted (due mainly to lack of opponents), having played only a few turns of Hunters from the sky.

Mark Veerman
A brief personel history, I am a Pharmacist at the U. of Florida Teaching Hospital, and faculty at the College of Pharmacy at UF, in Gainesville,Fl. I have been gaming since the mid 1970's at the U. of Iowa. One of gaming partners was John Kisner, who now publishes ZOC. With a 3yr old and a 1 yr old at home, my gaming is more limited now, but still enjoy the time I spend either doing some computer war games via email or this one. I have just started a game of Barren Victory via email now. I have encouraged Lee for either him or someone else to start a GD'41 game. That should be very fun as well. I hope every one enjoyed the game as much as I did.

Nadir El-Farra
I was born & raised in Los Angeles and attended USC School of Architecture graduating in 1988. My job frequently takes me overseas for several weeks at a time (including right now!), but I-net access allowed me to 'stay in the game' even so. I've been gaming since I was 10 or 12 years old (AH's Tobruk was my first). I'm married and have two kids.

Markus Kässbohrer
Oh, bio stuff. I'm 26 as of today (12th), have studied business and now work in finance at Koblenz, Germany. I play wargames for more than a decade now, mainly operational and strategic WWII. GD '40 was my first real tactical game, and TCS games are still probably my only WWII ground games where a batallion is a maneuvre unit instead of a single counter. But I enjoy them, and I really did enjoy this one.


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