Here from the game’s designer with its researcher is an at-a-glance introduction to the units in the soon upcoming second volume of the Levy & Campaign Series, Almoravid—Reconquista and Riposte in Spain, 1085-1086, with comparison to the forces used in volume one, Nevsky.
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Designer BlogsPrime Minister already offers a highly thematic gameplay experience in its standard format, but if you want to take that experience to a higher level, you can try one of the twelve scenarios planned for the game. In this fifth InsideGMT article for Prime Minister, we’ll take a closer look at those scenarios, starting with
Recreating History with Prime Minister’s Scenarios Read Post »
Designer BlogsIntroduction by ACME Game Developer Fred Schachter: The February 2021 GMT Update contained a wonderful new development as the game proceeds towards production readiness… the first increment of professional graphics by the talented Mark Mahaffey!
Chapter One: The Great Person Cards of ACME Part 1: Great Person Investment Cards Introduction by ACME Game Developer Fred Schachter: The February 2021 GMT Update contained a wonderful new development as the game proceeds towards production readiness: the first increment of professional graphics by the talented Mark Mahaffey! These cards fulfilled my and designers
Get Your Game On! You bought a copy of Dominant Species: Marine, it finally arrived and now you can’t play it with your friends because of COVID. What’s a gamer to do? Round up one to three friends and head to TableTop Simulator, of course. Thanks to the efforts of Andrew Clifton, enabled by an assist
Dominant Species: Marine Now on Tabletop Simulator Read Post »
Designer BlogsIntroduction by CoV Assistant Designer & Editor, Fred Schachter: Designer Frank Esparrago, Developer Dick Sauer, and I are grateful for the Transatlantic Team’s Congress of Vienna play test contributions. They’re quite the group of sharp, excellent, veteran grognard play testers! What a grand, fun, game the below-described AAR was for the three turn Spring Campaign of 1813 –
In this fourth InsideGMT article about Prime Minister, we’ll take a look at the game’s thematic side: the people, bills, and events that bring Victorian Britain back to life.
Victorian Britain Comes to Life in Prime Minister Read Post »
Designer BlogsI. Within the occupied territories, the adequate punishment for offences committed against the German State or the occupying power which endanger their security or a state of readiness is on principle the death penalty.” the first directive of Hitler’s Nacht und Nebel decree While 100,000 German troops were garrisoning Occupied France during World War Two,
In The Shadows: Playing the Occupation Read Post »
Designer BlogsThe changes made to the Feb. 2021 Congress of Vienna (CoV) Production Gameboard, which replaces the Nov. 2020 edition previously posted on GMT’s site for the game, are based on Vassal play tests conducted by gamers (both veteran grognards and Eurogamers) located in both Europe and the United States. Their diligent contributions while enjoying play
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Designer Blogs, Development UpdatesWe look to Earth and see the climate catastrophe unfolding. The droughts and storms, fires and floods that plague that world are the result of one thing and one thing only. The base human drive to take more than we need. We could have solved this problem centuries ago, but it was too hard. Too
Factions in Red Dust Rebellion: Church of the Reclaimer Read Post »
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