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ETO September ’24 Project Update: The Present and Future of Frank Chadwick’s ETO

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Let us set the Wayback Machine to review Frank Chadwick’s ETO’s past year of development and bring you up to the present with a look into this project’s future. The multiple volumes of ETO have seen the “completion” (always subject to further playtesting, but there have been very few changes to the rules .docs as […]

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Congress of Vienna Quick Start Rules (Bi-Lingual: English & Spanish Versions!)

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Introduction by Congress of Vienna (CoV) Assistant Designer & Editor, Fred Schachter: My what a wonderful journey it’s been since, through circumstances best described as “karma”, I some years ago met CoV Designer Frank Esparrago through his daughter Ana who was furthering her finance education while working in Seattle and introduced us through a local

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Designer Blogs

Racing Season Never Ends in the Thunderverse

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Hi everyone, it’s been a long time since I have brought any news of the Thunder Alley Racing Series to you. As some of you know, we have been using some play testers for various components and add-ons to the game series. These include bringing new tracks, new expansions, and solo play to the collection.

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The Four Factions of Hammer and Sickle

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The constellation of conflicts that consumed the former Russian Empire in the period 1918 to 1921 and beyond, known shorthand as the Russian Civil War (or the “Russian” Civil Wars by Jonathan Smele’s book of the same name), went far beyond a simple division of Reds. vs. Whites.  As Smele emphasizes, the new Bolshevik state

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Thunderbolt Deluxe Edition: August 2024 Update

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The content for the Thunderbolt Deluxe package has been finalized  with the GMT Art Department  team engaged in finishing up the counters and finalizing the maps. A few changes have been made to the Thunderbolt scenario line-up. Added are two scenarios commencing at key points during the long war:

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Imperial Eagles: Recreating Carrier Battles

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As a designer, I like to focus on why things happen in campaigns, operations, and battles.  In old school terms, I “design for cause.”  This tends to make my games more complex, but I hope players come away with a better understanding of why their game progressed the way it did beyond “he had better

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Congress of Vienna Scenario Set-Up Maps with Associated Historical Backgrounds

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Introduction by Fred Schachter, Assistant Designer & Editor: As lamented within previous InsideGMT articles, the amount of Congress of Vienna material the Team generated for the game is too copious for inclusion within the to-be-published Playbook.  Hence, that content is being provided through InsideGMT pieces. The Congress of Vienna Playbook contains all needed direction, in

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Enemy of My Enemy: Arab Revolt

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This is the first in a series of InsideGMT articles for the new Enemy of My Enemy expansion for the first COIN multipack, The British Way. Joe and I are extremely pleased with the positive reception of the first printing of The British Way which sold out from GMT last November. After seeing a ton

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Carmen Triumphale: To The Ancient World

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Along with my friends, Johan and Chris, I have been playing the scenarios in The Ancient World: Rise of the Roman Republic and The Ancient World: Carthage pretty much every Wednesday night since December 2023. At first, we just wanted to take the system for a spin as Johan spoke highly of it, but it

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