"brent nosworthy game designer?" Topic

I may have got this wrong but has Brent Nosworthy been involved in designing some board games? If so which ones? And as with quite a few board games can these be translated to a figure game?

A chap called Brent Nosworthy did a couple of SPI games in the late 70s. Whether it's 'that' Brent Nosworthy I don't know.

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I haven't played them but they don't look as if they would translate into a figure game.

Same guy. Several years ago he had designed a very detailed and interesting Napoleonic tactical game that used cardboard pieces on nicely drawn maps without hexes or squares. The idea was to illustrate the intricasies of Napoleonic tactics. Never published though. I saw it when he release ANATOMY OF VICTORY. I'm sure it helped him work out some of his ideas for his Napoleonic book.

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I still have Army Group South, my favorite SPI Quad.

That was him. I actually have some of the stuff he did for the War of the Spanish Succession.

Brent graciously wrote the foreword to my new book from LSU Press, The Louisiana Tigers in the Gettysburg Campaign, June-July 18563.

Great guy!

Thanks guys. Having read his excellent books on Napoleonic and ACW tactics, I was quite hoping somewhere out there was an ACW or Napoleonic board game which Brent had contributed which could be translated into a figure game. Wargames were probably something of his youth. Paddy Griffiths gave us the excellent Napoleonic wargaming for fun! Perhaps someone could persuade him to produce a similar classic tome.

Around 2005 I met Brent in RI and he later gave me a test copy of his rules (which he didn't call a game but something like analytical tool) and I helped make some of the oblong counters for it. He was very precise about the colors for the various counters to match elements of the uniform. So at some point I think he a had expert color guy take over the counter project. The goal of the tool was to allow a solitaire gamer to get the a feel for the nuances of various armies & periods' style of fire/melee… within the parameters of varying probabilities. I don't know that he took it much further.