Three Moves Ahead 346: Silver Bayonet

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

Strategy, Strategy Games, War, Games & Hobbies, War Games, Games, Video Games

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2016

⏱️ 62 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Bruce continues the Winter of Wargaming and brings on Gene Billingsley and Mitch Land of GMT games on to talk about the 25th Anniversary Edition of Silver Bayonet. Silver Bayonet was the first game published by GMT, and to commemorate 25 years of business the company is reissuing the game with revised rules and an improved map. Listen in to find out why the game is important to Bruce and what fans can expect to see in the new version.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Good evening. Welcome to Three Moves Ahead. I'm your host, Bruce Garrick. Tonight, we're going to
0:06.0	talk about a game that's very dear to my heart, happens to be the first GMT game I ever bought.
0:13.2	It's called Silver Bayonet, and it came out back in 1990. And we're going to talk about it with
0:20.3	Gene Billingsley, the founder of GMT Games, and Mitch Land,
0:24.8	who is GMT Games webmaster and also a designer and developer for GMT Games.
0:29.9	Guys, welcome to the show.
0:31.7	Thanks.
0:33.1	So the reason that I asked you guys to be on the show is that this is 2015, believe it or not, and the Battle of the Iodrang Valley happened in 1965 in November, and this is November 2015.
0:50.3	So that's the 50th anniversary of the battle, but it also happens to be the 25th anniversary of the release of Silver Bayonet, which happened to be one of the first games that GMT published.
1:07.9	I guess there were three Operation Shooe String and Air Bridge to Victory
1:13.2	and Silver Baynet all came out in 1990.
1:15.2	I remember specifically buying Silver Bayonet, but there is going to be a 25th anniversary
1:21.9	edition of Silver Bayonet, which will be sort of a reprint and I guess a redesign.
1:26.4	I want to talk a little bit about what's going to happen with that and how that's coming and what's going to be new and what people can expect.
1:33.3	That was a Project 500 entry and it has been well since Metis Target.
1:41.3	I'm for full disclosure.
1:43.3	My money is involved in that. I have, actually, I don't think we've been charged yet, but it's going to be my credit card will be charged at the appropriate time. And I'm very excited. And I just wanted to, I think that, you know, it's important that these, you know, when I was growing up, Vietnam was, you know, was not too far in the distance.
2:06.4	And we were having, you know, we weren't even having 50th anniversaries, having like 40th anniversaries of World War II events and 30th anniversary.
2:13.8	So now we've got the 50th anniversary of a major battle in, in Vietnam. So I thought this would be a good time to talk about it.
2:20.3	So, Gene, I'd like to start off with you because you designed the original game, I guess, if that's correct. So tell me a little bit. Well, first of all, let's talk about either one of you, I guess, anybody that wants to take this one up.
2:38.6	What was the Iodrang Valley battle just in general terms?
2:41.4	I mean, it was a big deal on 1965 November.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Idle Thumbs, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Idle Thumbs and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.