New P500 Game: Chivalry at Bay
Below is a more in-depth description of one of our new P500 games this month, Chivalry at Bay, from designer Mike Nagel. Enjoy!
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Playing the Story in GMT’s Enemy Coast Ahead: The Doolittle Raid
In one of the Harry Potter books, author J.K. Rowling presents a device called a pensieve. Characters peer into this stone basin to see events experienced by other people. Those memories are removed from a person’s head like wispy spaghetti and dropped into the magic bowl, and the “viewer” peers into the basin for the
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Designer BlogsArizona’s First 6-Player Game of Ancient Civilizations of the Inner Sea
Above is a photo of the first large multi-player game of Ancient Civilizations of the Inner Sea conducted in Arizona. It was essentially a learning game for the pictured entirely Euro Gamer participants (sorry, I did not record all their names… but you should recognize me, upper left hand at the table, in the white shirt…
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Designer Blogs, Playtest ReportsThe Last Hundred Yards After Action Report, Mission 20.0 “Hold On and Fight”
Below is an After Action Report for The Last Hundred Yards Mission 20.0, “Hold On and Fight”. Enjoy!
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Designer BlogsJUST ASK PHORMIO (or “how to teach Pericles”)
Introduction Back when I was young and I could count the number of games I owned on one hand with fingers left over, we all read the rules on how to play our games. However, times have changed. I now own a ridiculous number of games, and when I get together with friends it seems
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Designer BlogsB&T Warpath Chronicles Volume #8: Custom Battle Dice – How They Came to Be, Evolution, and Test Under Fire
I started wargaming in the 1980s with the first edition of Jim Day’s Panzer. Convincing battle modeling has always been crucial for me. For a long time, I found the “to hit” process and also odds based combat result tables to be the ne plus ultra — along with 10-sided dice (I confess my love
Frederick the Great Debuts in The Valley of the Sun: The First Arizona Playtest of The Seven Years War: Frederick’s Gamble
Introduction: A new career opportunity has returned me to the Phoenix area from back east. This provided an opportunity to reacquaint myself with the wonderful and friendly community of gamers here in “The Valley of the Sunâ€. This article is a high level After Action Report of our first experience playing The Seven Years War:
The Shot Heard Round Charleston Harbor…Fort Sumter Design Notes and AAR (Part 4)
We now continue with Round 3 of Mark’s AAR of Fort Sumter. If you missed the first three articles in this series, click on the following links to read them first: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3.
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Designer BlogsDomestic Tranquility (or not!) in Mr. President
I’ve had several requests of late for more information about the domestic side of Mr. President. In the recent replay articles I’ve shared, we downplayed the domestic choices and events because, frankly, that piece of the redesign wasn’t quite finished yet. Now I have all the main domestic redesign pieces in place, so I wanted to
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Designer BlogsThe Shot Heard Round Charleston Harbor…Fort Sumter Design Notes and AAR (Part 3)
We now continue with Round 2 of Mark’s AAR of Fort Sumter. If you missed the first two articles in this series, click on the following links to read them first: Part 1 Part 2. Round 2: Lame Duck Buchanan Because the score is still tied, the Unionist will still go first. We now see for the
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