In the first InsideGMT article on The Guerrilla Generation, I covered the famous urban guerrillas known as the Tupamaros in the Uruguay game. In this article, I’ll cover the other game set in South America, The Guerrilla Generation: Peru. The Peru game depicts the Shining Path insurgency from the early 1980s to the early 1990s. […]
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Designer BlogsIn the Levy & Campaign system, players conduct operational campaigns subject to transport, supply, and logistical constraints of the geography. In this article, the designer dives into the Epipolae (P500) map design, and the supply and route constraints of ancient Sicily. All map art is prototype playtest art, and not final. The Setting: Ancient Sicily
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Designer BlogsIn the previous articles in this series, I discussed the high-level concepts behind the Solitaire TacOps system and how they are represented in the components of the game. In this article, I will walk through how players interact with those components to play out their own strategic approaches to historical engagements.
Solitaire TacOps: Simple Structures for Strategic Depth Read Post »
Designer BlogsThis is the first in a series of InsideGMT articles on the games in the second COIN Multipack by GMT Games, The Guerrilla Generation. First, I should mention that I’m very happy with the reception of the first COIN Multipack, The British Way, in terms of reception and sales. Thanks to all your support the
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Designer BlogsAs promised at the end of my last blog post, today we are diving into the way that the maps and components in Solitaire TacOps: Ortona impact the game play. As discussed in the second part of this series, the system builds off of the ideas from classic hex and counter games, but it does
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Designer BlogsLast week, we started off with by talking about the design principles and scale behind Solitaire TacOps: Ortona. This week we will be talking about the design behind the series system. The Solitaire TacOps system, as a design idea, entered the formative stage while considering the map of the 1977 SPI game Cityfight by Joe Balkoski and Stephen Donaldson. It
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Designer BlogsUpcoming game Žižka: Reformation and Crusade in Hussite Bohemia, 1420-1421 comes with a bunch of new mechanics such as new Assets, new rules for Crusade, for immediate surrender of some types of Strongholds, new multi stronghold Locale (Prague), or the whole new multi-purpose deck of so called Cause cards. It also relies heavily on mechanics
Hussites, Bohemian Catholics, and Foreigners: What Has Changed Without Adding New Rules? Read Post »
Designer BlogsAt first blush, the connection between my first GMT game, Cross Bronx Expressway, and my next, Solitaire TacOps: Ortona, might seem tenuous. However, the connection is quite simple – I have an affinity for urban settings and how they serve as representations of human modernity. Cross Bronx Expressway explores this through the social, political, and economic domains.
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Designer BlogsBelow you will find an article from co-designers D. B. Dockter and Mark Herman on the design of their upcoming game titled Defiance: 2nd Russo-Ukrainian War 2022-?, which is available for P500 preorder from GMT as of this December. This article was originally published on Conflicts of Interest Online in April 2023, and you can
Introduction by Hannibal’s Revenge Game Developer, Fred Schachter: To those who placed P500 orders for the game and/or InsideGMT readers curious regarding the all too long hiatus in communications regarding it, Mark and I, after tragic periods in our personal lives (we both lost our beloved wives within a single year), are pleased to resume
