Introduction by Congress of Vienna (CoV)’s Editor, Fred Schachter – To familiarize the InsideGMT audience of what designer Frank Esparrago accomplished with his fun and exciting Congress of Vienna game, now a GMT P-500 offering which has “Made the Cut” (thank you patrons!); previous InsideGMT articles presented “Designer’s Notes”, “Game as History: An Historical Introduction […]
Introduction by Congress of Vienna (CoV)’s Editor, Fred Schachter – To familiarize the InsideGMT audience of what designer Frank Esparrago created with his fun and exciting Congress of Vienna game, now a GMT P-500 offering which has “Made the Cut” (thank you patrons!); previous InsideGMT articles presented “Designer’s Notes”, “Game as History: An Historical Introduction
Congress of Vienna Detailed Sequence of Play – The Diplomacy Phase (Part 2 of 5) Read Post »
Designer Blogs, Examples of PlayIntroduction by Congress of Vienna (CoV)’s Editor, Fred Schachter – To familiarize the InsideGMT audience of what designer Frank Esparrago created with his fun and exciting Congress of Vienna game, now a GMT P-500 offering which has “Made the Cut” (thank you patrons!); previous InsideGMT articles presented “Designer’s Notes”, “Game as History: An Historical Introduction
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Designer Blogs, Examples of PlayAs we speak, All Bridges Burning is all finished and the components have been sent to the printer. The wait is almost over! In a range of previous InsideGMT articles we spent a great deal of time looking at the game’s treatment of the Finnish Civil War. Alongside that, a series of event card spoilers
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Designer Blogs, Examples of Play, Solitaire SystemsThe single most important goal of the new COIN bot designs is usability. There are many places where small changes have been made to enhance usability, but the primary change (and a large one!) is the division of the operation selection and space selection priorities into different charts. Trưng divides these using the same principles
Fire in the Lake Tru’ng Bot Example of Play: NVA March Read Post »
Designer Blogs, Examples of PlayThe Extended Example of Play for Imperial Struggle is up! You can read it here. The example consists of the first Peace Turn and the War of the Spanish Succession; when it ends, the players would move on to the final turn of the Succession Era.
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Designer Blogs, Examples of PlayIntroduction: Part 1 of this article took readers through an Ancient Civilizations of the Middle East (ACME) game’s set-up through its Growth Phase; which includes deployment of each civilization’s disks upon the map. Article Part 2 continued the narrative to include the Card through Competition Phases. Those familiar with ACME’s predecessor, Ancient Civilizations of the
Introduction: Part 1 of this article took readers through an Ancient Civilizations of the Middle East (ACME) game’s setup through its Growth Phase; which includes deployment of each civilization’s disks upon the map. Those familiar with ACME’s predecessor, Ancient Civilizations of the Inner Sea’s (ACIS) Playbook example of play may observe similarities between that piece
Introduction: Those familiar with Ancient Civilizations of the Inner Sea’s (ACIS) Playbook example of a turn may observe similarities between that piece and this exposition. However, although both games share the same basic system, there are differences. For details, and links to material which explain game term references (for this article’s limitations can only allude to rulebook
To start the second mission of this campaign, you’ll probably want to reshuffle the action decks before going back to 24.3.C.1 to generate a new mission. I’ll go through this part quickly, since we already covered mission selection in the first article. The Axis player draws an IN MY SIGHTS (1B) card and cross references it to
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