For Everything There is a Season: The Origin Story of Combat Commander: Vietnam

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Note: All of the images depicting game components in this article show early concept or playtest art. A Time to Plant. It was 18(!!) years ago that Chad and I started talking about designing a Combat Commander: Vietnam game together. Of course, Chad was the master crafter of Combat Commander and knew the CC design […]

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Contemporary Conflicts in Mr. President

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Since Exia and GMT announced the digital adaptation of Mr. President, players have often observed that a lot has happened since 2020 (the end of the era Mr. President covers). Mr. President covers a recent time period, well within living memory, and all but the youngest players will vividly remember many of the real-life crises

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The Women of Baltic Empires: Part Two

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Below you will find Part Two in Brian Asklev’s “The Women of Baltic Empires” two-part article series. In the first part of this article he looked at Marie Louise Gonzaga and and Sophia Alekseyevna and you can read that here. -Rachel Queen Christina (1626-1689) Christina became Queen of Sweden as a young child, upon the

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The Historical Figures in Nicholas II’s Regime

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This is the first in a series of InsideGMT articles from Paul Hellyer about his board game Tsar, currently on GMT’s P500. The human element is a key part of Tsar’s simulation: the historical figures responsible for Russia’s fate during the reign of the last Tsar Nicholas II. The game aims to capture their talents

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Play GMT Games Anytime, Anywhere! (Part 1)

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GMT’s Digital Offerings allow you to “Play GMT Games Anytime, Anywhere.” We have created, in cooperation with individual programmers and digital game platforms, numerous ways for customers to experience our boardgames on your digital devices. We’ve done this for one large, underlying reason: We want players to be able to engage with and experience the

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 Multi-Player Variant for Illusions of Glory

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The second edition of Illusions of Glory: The Great War on the Eastern Front (“IoG”) is currently on the P-500 list.  Links to prototype unit counters, player aid cards, mapboard, and playbook can be found on the IoG webpage.  IoG is being published as a two-player game. Here is a variant for up to two

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How to Win as the Ottomans in Here I Stand

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Below you will find another fantastic article from Clio’s Board Games, this time discussing Ottoman player strategy in Here I Stand. You can also find this article on Clio’s blog. The previous articles in this series can be found here, here, here, and here. Enjoy! -Rachel Another strategy post on one of my favorite games – Here I Stand (Ed Beach,

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One Crisis After Another: The Crisis Deck in Mr. President

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We call Mr. President a sandbox game. One important reason for this is the large Crisis deck, which provides players a widely variable set of unexpected challenges in every game. There are a lot of curve balls the game can throw at a player, but the barrage of Crisis Cards is one of the most

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The Women of Baltic Empires: Part One

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The period covered by Baltic Empires (1558-1721) was certainly not a high point for women in terms of power and influence. This unhappy fact means that the great majority of the historical characters represented in Baltic Empires as Dramatis Personae (DP) cards are men. This also means that those women who, against all odds, made

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RevCon 2025 After Action Report

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Twenty-six players participated in RevCon at Prezcon last week. Advanced forecasts of an impending snowstorm that ended up hitting the mid-Atlantic region mid-week coupled with unplanned illnesses down the stretch kept at least four players away. Nevertheless, those who did attend had excellent experience during our 19th– annual RevCon. While GMT’s Battles of the American

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