Book & Game Pairings from Clio’s Board Games: Four Princes and Here I Stand

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Back to the book & game pairings to educate and entertain about a certain historical topic! After our kickoff with the Eastern Front of World War II, we’ll go a little bit further back in time, landing in the early 16th century: The Reformation is shaking up Europe, and powerful rulers try to make the most of these turbulent […]

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Inside the Game as History

Panzer Expansion #4 Scenario #37 Replay Part 4 — Turn 4

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Below you will find the fourth in a series of articles from Brett Dedrick featuring a playthrough of Panzer Expansion #4 Scenario #37: Delaying Action at Ernage. The first three parts can be found here. Enjoy!

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After Action Report

Two New Designer Interviews for Borikén: The Taíno Resistance

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Hi Everyone! Today we would like to point you to a couple of excellent video interviews with Julio E. Nazario, designer of one of GMT’s newest P500 additions, Borikén: The Taíno Resistance. The first interview, streamed on May 7th from the Bonding with Board Games and RPGs YouTube channel, covered many topics including why Julio

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Videos

The Lair of the Infernal Machine: A Tour of Breach Inlet, South Carolina

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After visiting Director Kellen Butler at the Lasch Conservation Center and seen the H.L. Hunley itself being painstakingly and lovingly restored, I needed to learn more about the locations  where those involved in unleashing the Hunley upon the Union Navy blockading Charleston Harbor did their good work.

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Designer Blogs

Panzer Expansion #4 Scenario #37 Replay Part 3 — Turn 3

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Below you will find the third in a series of articles from Brett Dedrick featuring a playthrough of Panzer Expansion #4 Scenario #37: Delaying Action at Ernage. Parts 1 and 2 can be found here and here. Enjoy!

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After Action Report

An Extended Example of Play: Or, How Insurgency and Soviet Atrocities are Represented in Bear Trap

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In this InsideGMT article, we’ll play through a few turns of Bear Trap. The following playthrough is designed to demonstrate a few different aspects of the game, and to give you a basic sense of what it’s like to play—it’s not meant to be a demonstration of good play by the players. In what follows,

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Designer Blogs, Examples of Play

No Quiet On The Eastern Front: An “Illusions of Glory” AAR

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An IoG player sporting the Nom de Guerre of “LeftSide” posted an interesting AAR re-printed below. But first, a link to IoG’s April 2022 Living Rules has been inserted on the game’s webpage here. The April 2022 Living Rules address applying combat losses and building trenches. LeftSide posted a Summer 1914 Turn (Turn 1) AAR for

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After Action Report

Panzer Expansion #4 Scenario #37 Replay Part 2 — Turn 2

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Below you will find the second in a series of articles from Brett Dedrick featuring a playthrough of Panzer Expansion #4 Scenario #37: Delaying Action at Ernage. Part 1 can be found here. Enjoy!

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After Action Report

Infernal Machine: Things That Go Boom in the Night

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At the opening of the American Civil War, Confederate president Jefferson Davis and his people faced an enemy that had a substantially larger and fully ocean-going navy and was wedded to a strategic “Anaconda Plan” of defeating the Confederacy by economic strangulation through a naval blockading of all of its ports. Like their forefathers, the

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Designer Blogs

Panzer Expansion #4 Scenario #37 Replay Part 1 — Introduction and Turn 1

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Below you will find the first in a series of articles from Brett Dedrick featuring a playthrough of Panzer Expansion #4 Scenario #37: Delaying Action at Ernage. Enjoy! You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread. General Has Guderian 

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After Action Report
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