Solitaire Systems

Solitaire Play of The God-King of Egypt (Part 1)

Introduction by Game Developer Fred Schachter: A previous two-part InsideGMT article pitted one of the Ancient Civilizations of the Inner Sea (ACIS) designers, Mark McLaughlin, solitaire against the trials and tribulations of this exciting, quick-to-play, and fun game. Links to Parts 1 and 2 of the article can be found here and here. To best appreciate this

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Designer Blogs, Solitaire Systems

Hitler’s Reich: A “Bot” Driving Toward Moscow (Volume II of VPJ Arponen’s Bot series)

The following article is the 2nd volume of a two volume series (Volume 1 is here), written by VPJ Arponen, originally appearing on The Players’ Aid blog earlier this week. To make sure that all of our GMT customers get to see this excellent article, we’re including it here in InsideGMT as well, with the permission and

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Solitaire Systems

The Science of the COIN Bot: Volume I

The following article, written by VPJ Arponen, originally appeared on The Players’ Aid blog earlier this week. To make sure that all of our GMT customers get to see this excellent article, we’re including it here in InsideGMT as well, with the permission and agreement of our friends at The Player’s Aid. We hope you enjoy the

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Solitaire Systems

Solitaire Ancient Civilizations of the Inner Sea (Part 1 of 2)

Introduction by Game Developer Fred Schachter – Prior InsideGMT articles concerning Ancient Civilizations of the Inner Sea focused on the multi-player versions of the game… and there’s more to come as the game’s development continues. This particular article by Designer Mark McLaughlin provides the reader insights as to the game’s basic systems and the cards

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Designer Blogs, Solitaire Systems

Hitler’s Reich: AAR Using a New Solitaire System “Bot”

Introduction by Fred Schachter- Game Developer for Hitler’s Reich: A Card Conquest System Game (henceforth referred to as simply Hitler’s Reich) – Vesa “Vez” Arponen is one of those gamers who has talents of his of own, particularly when it comes to designing solitaire-playing “Bots” for GMT Games (most recently for A Distant Plain published

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Designer Blogs, Solitaire Systems

The Madness Behind a CDG Solo Method

Hi everyone. In today’s InsideGMT article, we are bringing you something new. I know many of you, like me, enjoy solitaire designs. Most of us who have played wargames for a while can even take a non-solitaire design and play it solo, with no problem. But CDGs are much harder to solo. And that has

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Scenarios/Variants, Solitaire Systems

Solitaire System for Fields of Despair, Part III

Here are links to the first two articles in this series: Part I   Part II Welcome back to the overview of the solitaire system for Fields of Despair: France 1914-1918.  A huge thank you goes out to everyone who has helped us get across the 500 order mark.  The development team and I are thrilled

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Designer Blogs, Solitaire Systems

Solitaire System for Fields of Despair, Part II

You can view Part I of this article here. Movement With air recon complete it’s time to move any/all of your blocks into position for the attack!  Block movement remains the same as in the 2-player game.  Combat The solitaire combat sequence has a small departure from the 2-player game where artillery is committed and

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