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Order & Opportunity: Victory

Recently, a new game named Order & Opportunity: Making of the Post-Cold War World Order entered GMT Games’ P500 list. This is the second in a series of articles about the game. The first article discussed the game’s perspective to the post-Cold War period. In this second article we’ll look at the game’s concept of […]

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Order & Opportunity: A Perspective to the Post-Cold War Period

Recently, a new game named Order & Opportunity: Making of the Post-Cold War World Order entered GMT Games’ P500 list. This is the first in a series of articles on the game. From the profile page: Order & Opportunity is a 2 to 4 player game with a solo variant about the making of the

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How Combat is Resolved in Iron Storm

The development of Iron Storm has been going smoothly over the past few months, and the game’s core systems are now close to finalised, with only small tweaks being made as our dedicated playtesters continue to push it to its limits. In this article I will give an overview of the game’s combat system, which

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Imperial Eagles: Air War in the Pacific 1941-43 — Allied Aircraft

Since the Japanese need someone to fight, this second article for Inside GMT will describe the planes with which the Allies oppose them in Imperial Eagles. The US Army Air Force has aircraft in almost every campaign in the game, and more models than any other service.  These are the planes which held the line

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Here I Stand Game Example: Two-Player Variant

What follows is a detailed, turn-by-turn actual two-player game pitting the Here I Stand game designer Ed Beach as the Papacy player against a collective group of other skilled players playing the Protestant side. This group included several HIS playtesters and a number of ConsimWorld Forum members. The ConsimWorld forum board was used to debate

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Rebellion: Britannia, Leaders

Each faction always has one of two possible leaders that are always available in a set (historical) sequence. But when a faction switches between leaders is determined by the Events deck, and since not all cards from that deck are present in the same game it’s possible these events aren’t triggered and a faction never

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A Fading Star #2: Harakat Al-Shabaab Al-Mujahideen

Al-Shabaab (from its full name Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen, or ‘Mujahideen Youth Movement’) is a very singular case among the movements that have made the headlines since the rise of violent transnational Islamism. From 2007 to 2014, the organization could sway and control a majority of Southern Somalia, including numerous urban centers, despite the presence of

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Across The Bosporus: Bringing Levy & Campaign to Asia Minor

The medieval era: a clash of swords and armor, archers winning the day against charging knights, the dust and roar of melee, lords’ banners snapping crisply in the breeze, high castle parapets withstanding mighty sieges. These are the familiar images that likely come to mind and captivate the imagination when played out on the table

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Rebellion: Britannia, The Events Deck, Part #2

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Imperial Eagles: Air War in the Pacific 1941-43 — Japanese Aircraft

For anyone who’s ever played Down in Flames, their first question is probably, “what aircraft do we get in Imperial Eagles?”You’ll be getting a mix of old and new, with even the “repeats” brought up to Wild Blue Yonder standards.  As befits a game featuring Imperial Japanese aviation in World War II, this first article

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