Monthly Archives: January 2018

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Apocalypse Road AAR: Full Metal Jacket Derby at Black Widow Hollow (Part 1)

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Ladies and Gentlemen! Load your guns and start your engines! The Apocalypse Road Beckons!

You´ve seen your Thunder Alley buddies link up with the other lane, and thereby leaving your car alone, activated and ultimately lapped in turn 1 on Saint Adriana. Your words “…but we had a deal…” seemingly lost to your buddies.

You´ve seen your Grand Prix buddies move the entire field past you with NPCs and conditional linking and thereby ending all your hopes of a podium on Vasal Towers. Your words “…but why go after me, I wasn´t even leading…” seemingly lost to your buddies.

What can you do?

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From Russia, With Love (for Wargames)

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This short article was originally a letter from Russian shop owner Igor Luckyanov to game designer Mark McLaughlin. Focused on one of Mark’s designs, Rebel Raiders on the High Seas, it shares a story of love for games and some pictures with us from our fellow wargamers in Russia. So we wanted to share it with our readers. We hope to see future articles from fellow gamers around that world that give us a glimpse of how players with a love for games and history are enjoying our products in their country. Enjoy! – Gene
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Replicator Tuesday Issue #38: Advanced Ship Development, Part Four – New Techs

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Replicator Tuesdays is an article series appearing on InsideGMT. It features insights into the development of the 2nd expansion for the board wargame Space Empires:4x by Jim Krohn.  Here the designer, developer and play testers will share their thoughts and experiences on this upcoming expansion. Since there is much crossover between the Space Empires and Talon development teams, both Space Empires and Talon articles will be featured in this series.

Issue #36 Advanced Ship Development, Part Four – New Techs

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Space Empires 4X: Exploring Your Home System

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Below is another fun Space Empires article from one of our newer blog contributors, David Waldorf. In his last article, he shared with us his thematic results for the “Danger!” chits in Space Empires 4X. You can find that article here. Enjoy! -Rachel

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All Bridges Burning: A COIN System Game for Three Players

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Exactly a hundred years ago today, in the night from 27 to 28 January 1918, the Red Revolt was launched in Finland. The revolt also triggered the Finnish Civil War, one of the first of the 20th century socialist revolutions. Alongside the larger ideological struggle, the revolt also had a very particular background in the Finnish societal and political landscape of the day.

The war was tightly bound to class conflict in a rapidly modernizing society for which the unexpected social upheaval in the Russian Empire gave room to roam. –Tepora and Roselius in The Finnish Civil War 1918

This article is the second in the series (see Part One here) showcasing the features of All Bridges Burning, a new COIN Series system game on the Finnish Civil War, currently on GMT Games’ P500 list. In this article we’ll take a historical look at the game’s three-faction make-up and describe the political dimensions of the game as they are manifested in the concept of Polarization and the Political Display mechanic.

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The End of the Socialist Empire (1989, #3)

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Below you will find the third in a series of articles from Clio of Clio’s Board Games. The article is Part 3 in a planned series that looks at the fall of Communism through the lens of GMT’s 1989. You can find Parts 1 and 2 of this series here and here. Hope you enjoy the article! -Rachel

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Talon Tuesday Issue #37: Talon Solitaire Part 1

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“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 of the Talon 1000 expansion. Since Space Empires:4x Replicators is also releasing soon and there is crossover between the two development teams, Replicator articles will be featured as well.

Issue #37: Talon Solitaire Part 1

As a team, we are really pleased to offer a strong and enjoyable solitaire system for Talon.  The solitaire game mode will be part of Talon 1000 – an expansion that is set to ship in the 2nd quarter of this year.  This article series explains how we crafted the solitaire system and how it works. 

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Surviving the Apocalypse

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Last time I was on here I probably disappointed some of those that care about Apocalypse Road by dashing their hopes that players could customize cars right from the start. Today, let me make up for that a bit by trying to provide you some strategies and tips I have noticed over a couple of years of testing.

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Replicator Tuesday Issue #36: Advanced Ship Development, Part Three – Other Ships

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Replicator Tuesdays is an article series appearing on InsideGMT. It features insights into the development of the 2nd expansion for the board wargame Space Empires:4x by Jim Krohn.  Here the designer, developer and play testers will share their thoughts and experiences on this upcoming expansion. Since there is much crossover between the Space Empires and Talon development teams, both Space Empires and Talon articles will be featured in this series.

Issue #36: Advanced Ship Development, Part Three – Other Ships

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Tokyo at Dawn #5: The Doolittle Raid Debriefing

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This is the fifth installment of Tokyo at Dawn, an after action report created using GMT’s Enemy Coast Ahead: The Doolittle Raid. Where a word appears in bold, it references a game mechanic or rule. The first four articles of the Tokyo at Dawn series can be found here, here, here, and here. Another of Chris’ fantastic InsideGMT articles, “Walking the Distant Plain” can be found here.