We arrive at the final of four looks into the player factions in COIN Series Volume VI, Falling Sky. Here follows the counsel kept among the fierce northern warriors of Belgica….
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Designer Blogs“Talon Tuesdays” is an article series appearing on InsideGMT periodically on Tuesdays. It features articles from the Talon development team regarding the game’s design, development and upcoming release. Issue #23: Talon Puzzle 2 My copy of Talon arrived! It’s so weird seeing the counters and rules I’ve spent the last couple years working on come
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Designer BlogsFalling Sky—The Gallic Revolt Against Caesar depicts each of its factions’ personalities in war and diplomacy—as in the all the COIN Series volumes—mainly through its diverse menus of commands and special abilities. But the card deck adds more such personality to each player role. Here we present just eight Falling Sky events that display particular ways
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Designer BlogsFalling Sky leverages the COIN Series system to highlight Caesar’s triumph of “divide and conquer”. In the third of our four peeks into its faction roles, we hear of the strengths and weaknesses of the Celts who personified the local propensity alternatively to side with or against the invader….
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Designer Blogs1 February Today I played Pericles for the first time, so it’s game on! This is the first of a regular set of notes that I will pen and post on InsideGMT and on my Blog. So, what is Pericles? Pericles: The Peloponnesian Wars is the sequel to my recently published Churchill: Big Three Struggle
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Designer BlogsFollowing up on our earlier article on overall Roman strategy in COIN Series Volume VI Falling Sky, here is a much closer, blow-by-blow examination of just a portion of the tools in the legionaries’ and auxiliaries’ kit bags….
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Designer Blogs“Talon Tuesdays” is an article series appearing on InsideGMT periodically on Tuesdays. It features articles from the Talon development team regarding the game’s design, development and upcoming release. Issue #22: Talon Puzzle 1 Solution I’m so pumped for the community’s response to the first Talon Puzzle. People really took to answering them. Within hours of
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Designer BlogsWe continue our glimpse into the diverse personalities of the player roles in Volume VI of the COIN Series, Falling Sky. In this second of the series, druids advise a powerful Celtic tribe on how its young king might lead all Gaul in revolt against the Romans….
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Designer BlogsThe following is a continuation of the previous Wing Leader post, which was a replay of Wing Leader Scenario V25 “Singapore Sling”, one of the supplemental scenarios provided by Lee B-W online.
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Designer BlogsHere is a peek into the character of each role in Volume VI of the COIN Series, Falling Sky, that also will get you a step ahead of the competition when you sit down to play. In this first of a 4-part series, anonymous ancient authors presume to advise Caesar on his strategy for the
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