Border Reivers Design Diary #17: Border Reivers With Less Than Four Players

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Below you will find the seventeenth and final installment of an ongoing design diaries series from Border Reivers designer Ed Beach. (The previous installments can be found here.) He regularly publishes design updates on the “Reivers and Reformers” Facebook group, so if you would like to read those as they are released you can do so here. Ed is […]

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Designer Blogs, Solitaire Systems

All Bridges Burning: Examples of Play to Keep the Doctor Away #3 Terror + Foreign Relations

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This is our third installment in a series going through the commands and special activities of the newly released COIN Series game, All Bridges Burning, Volume X. If you would like to read the previous two installments, they can be found here.

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Designer Blogs, Examples of Play

Drop Zone: Southern France Organization – Part 1: Infantry Units from Squad to Battalion Level

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This will be the first of many articles on the history of the campaign and design notes for Drop Zone: Southern France. We will begin with a discussion of the organization of the Allied and German armies in August 1944, beginning with the infantry from squad level moving up to battalion level.

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Designer Blogs

An Illustrated SpaceCorp: Ventures Solo Session Report: The Planeteers Era

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While sheltering-in-place during our present global circumstances, I had the privilege to playtest the upcoming expansion to SpaceCorp, titled SpaceCorp: Ventures. One of my favorite parts of the new game is the updated solo play options, especially the custom competition HQ! In this article, we take our player HQ, New Nomads, out of the inner

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Solitaire Systems

Panzer North Africa On The Horizon

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We usually announce new P500 game information when we add the game to our P500 list. Every once in a while, though, especially for game series with strong followings, we give you some insider previews here in InsideGMT. Today, designer James Day gives us a peek at the next game in his popular Panzer series.

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Designer Blogs

All Bridges Burning: Examples of Play to Keep the Doctor Away #2: Activism + Political Event

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In the latest InsideGMT articles on All Bridges Burning, we kicked off a series of short posts going through the base game commands and special activities to help gamers ease into playing the game with minimum effort. Last time we looked at the Rally command and the Prepare special activity. Today we continue that series

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Designer Blogs, Examples of Play

An Illustrated SpaceCorp: Ventures Solo Session Report: The Mariners Era

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While sheltering-in-place during our present global circumstances, I had the privilege to playtest the upcoming expansion to SpaceCorp, titled SpaceCorp: Ventures. One of my favorite parts of the new game is the updated solo play options, especially the custom competition HQ! In this article, we will take a look at how the new player HQ

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Solitaire Systems

Strategies for Russian in Congress of Vienna: “We are Russians… God is with us!![1]”

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Introduction by Congress of Vienna (CoV)’s Editor, Fred Schachter – To familiarize the InsideGMT audience of what designer Frank Esparrago accomplished with his fun and exciting Congress of Vienna game, now a GMT P-500 offering which has “Made the Cut” and then some (thank you patrons, thank you so very much!) kindly reference previous InsideGMT

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Designer Blogs, Strategy Articles

All Bridges Burning: Examples of Play to Keep the Doctor Away #1: Rally + Prepare

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As I write this, the preorders placed on All Bridges Burning have just been charged and the game is due to begin to ship within the next few weeks. In the last few InsideGMT articles on All Bridges Burning, we looked at the game’s solitaire system in action (see those articles here, here, and here).

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Designer Blogs, Examples of Play

An Illustrated SpaceCorp: Ventures Solo Session Report: Introduction and Competition HQ

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While sheltering-in-place during our present global circumstances, I had the privilege to playtest the upcoming expansion to SpaceCorp, titled SpaceCorp: Ventures. One of my favorite parts of the new game is the updated solo play options, especially the custom competition HQ! Over several articles, I’ll be playing the new player HQ New Nomads against the

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Solitaire Systems
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