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Talon Tuesday Issue #41: Talon Solitaire Part 3 – The Ships and Empire War

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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 […]

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The Dark Summer: Normandy 1944 – Introduction and After Action Report

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Below is a look at one of the games coming to the P500 list this month, The Dark Summer: Normandy 1944, designed by Ted Raicer. Ted has also included a first turn playtest after action report for The Dark Summer: Normandy 1944 at the end of this article. Enjoy! -Rachel

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Joining the COIN Family – People Power’s Journey from Concept to Reality

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Welcome to the first article about People Power, Insurgency in the Philippines, 1983-1986, Volume XI of GMT’s popular COIN series! This journey started almost as soon as the first COIN volume – Andean Abyss was released back in 2012. It was designer Volko Ruhnke’s third published design, and I was already a big fan of his

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Second Edition Wing Leader: Should You Purchase?

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When a second edition of a game comes three years after the first, any explanation as to why turns into an extended mea culpa. I have to sell you, the punter, on why you want to drop your hard-earned dough on the new edition of Wing Leader: Victories.

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The State of Crisis: Setting the Stage for Flashpoint: South China Sea

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“The state of crisis is the real war; the equilibrium is nothing but its reflex.” -Carl von Clausewitz War and peace are no longer binary. The US and its peers are now frequently operating in the gray zone between war and peace. This is the case in the South China Sea where China moves aggressively

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All Bridges Burning: Victory

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This is the third InsideGMT article on All Bridges Burning, a COIN system game for three-players dealing with the political and military events surrounding the Finnish Civil War of 1918. In the first two articles (found here and here), the focus was somewhat on illustrating the historical background of various design decisions made during the

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Replicator Tuesday Issue #40: New Terrain Counters

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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

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Talon Tuesday Issue #39: Talon Solitaire Part 2

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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

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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

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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

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