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Volunteers Sought to Help Playtest/Develop the Congress of Vienna Vassal Module Mark 2!

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Introduction by Congress of Vienna Assistant Designer/Editor, Fred Schachter – The currently available Congress of Vienna Vassal Module may be found at Congress of Vienna Goes Electric, 2025 Edition (with VASSAL!)  – InsideGMT,  While this Module certainly works, and works just fine, as many of its users will attest, feedback indicated there is room for […]

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Order & Opportunity: November 2024 Development Update

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It’s been a very exciting few weeks for the development of Order & Opportunity. Over here in Europe, the Essen Spiel Fair 2024 took place in early October. With a little bit of help from a friend, the Estonian designer and publisher Aigar Alaveer, I was able to get some table space and demo Order

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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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Herding Elephants: A Development Update on Hannibal’s Revenge

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In April I was able to take my playtest kit for Hannibal’s Revenge to the GMT Weekend at the Warehouse and play with several of the GMT Team Members in attendance, so that we could plan the next steps for development of the game. Needless to say, we had a great time playing the game

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Three Days of Gettysburg Deluxe Edition – Designer Update

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Three Days of Gettysburg Deluxe Edition’s design is picking up pace and is now moving through both alpha and beta testing of the current scenarios. These include the traditional first-day battle. However, multiple scenarios have different starting times for the whole July 1st fight. The first scenario begins at 7 AM and is designed with

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A “Congress of Vienna” GMT Production Process Status Report

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Introduction by Fred Schachter – Congress of Vienna (CoV), Assistant Designer & Editor: What a wonderful and pleasurable journey it’s been in this “labor of love” regarding Designer Frank Esparrago’s Congress of Vienna game. Previous InsideGMT articles were devoted to various aspects of the game (see: GMT Games – Congress of Vienna); but with this

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Fields of Fire Deluxe – Heartbreak Ridge Mission Book

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The new Mission Book for the Heartbreak Ridge campaign from the upcoming Fields of Fire Deluxe is now free to download from the Fields of Fire Deluxe P500 page at GMT Games for anyone with the original game to play with. [Link] About The Campaign Heartbreak Ridge was originally released as a free extra for

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Fields of Fire Deluxe – Vietnam Campaign Mission Book

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The new Vietnam Campaign Mission book from the upcoming Fields of Fire Deluxe is now free to download from the Fields of Fire Deluxe P500 page at GMT Games for anyone with the original game to play with. About The Campaign Most Fields of Fire campaigns take place over a series of missions that are

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Illusions of Glory: Playtesting the Next Edition

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The next generation of rules, mapboard, player aid cards, and counters for Illusions of Glory are open for playtesting.  Links to a Vassal playtest module and next generation rules (labeled “Summer 2022”) are located on the Illusions of Glory webpage.  Please send your critiques to me at Ohiogrognard on BoardGameGeek. The rules have been clarified

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Downfall: Conquest of the Third Reich Preview 4 — Action Rounds Continue

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In this article in our series previewing Downfall, we continue our typical game to show a range of orders and activities that might occur, such as strategic warfare, event triggers, intra-Axis conflict, weather and partisan warfare. At the end of Preview 3, the Western Faction’s Initiative Marker occupied the lowest-numbered space on the Initiative Track

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