For those of you wondering about the dates for the Fall ’24 Weekend at the Warehouse, we have now set the dates for October 17-20, 2024.
Hotel Bookings:
Sequoia Inn:
The Sequoia Inn is pleased to offer the following special rates for your corporate group and will be honored on 10/16-10/20/2024. Rates are net, non-commissionable, federal and state taxes will be added.
$96.00 + tax Traditional Room with 1 king bed (10 Rooms) $96.00 + tax Traditional Room with 2 queen beds (10 Rooms)
Please be advised that our check in time is at 4:00 pm, and Check out at 11:00 a.m. Please have an Identification card and a credit card ready upon check in.
*Incidental hold/deposit of $100/stay is required. *Roll away beds are only available for the following room type: king size bed, suite or VIP and they are subject to a small fee per stay. *If travelling with a pet, there is a $75/stay nonrefundable fee. Please ask agent for more details.* *Room cancellation must be 72-hrs in advance to avoid cancellation fee. No Show will be charged at regular booking rate.
For reservation please contact 559-582-0338, and please mention the group name “GMT” to receive the discounted rate.
Please make sure to book all your reservations by 10/8/2024 at noon and all unpicked rooms will be released to our house availability. The Sequoia Inn reserves the right to withdraw this offer at any time.
HiltonHome2Suites:
The Hilton online booking link for GMT GAMES is now ready for use. Simply copy and paste the URL below into your browser to access the exclusive rates available for this group:
Since its beginnings in 2015, the San Diego Historical Games Convention has had a strong presence from GMT Games. SDHistCon Summit 2023, set to be held from Nov. 3-5 at the S.E.S. Portuguese Hall of San Diego, will be no exception. GMT designers and contributors confirmed to attend so far include Gene and Rachel Billingsley, Mark Herman, Jason Matthews, Ananda Gupta, Kai Jensen, Joe Schmidt, Justin Fassino,Terry Leeds, and convention organizer Harold Buchanan. But beyond that, the event will feature plenty of opportunities to learn and play GMT titles. Here’s more on the event and what to expect from it.
The venue: The United Portuguese S.E.S. Hall features a grand ballroom that will be a great gaming space. It’s also in a tremendous location: two blocks from the San Diego harbor, a few miles from the San Diego airport, and surrounded by delicious restaurants and affordable hotels. It will be open from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
The organization: The mission of San Diego HistCon (SDHist) is to create a diverse and supportive gaming community dedicated to playing, discussing, designing, and promoting historically-based board games. Through this commitment, SDHist seeks to serve both the existing historical board gaming community as well as grow it through the addition of new voices and perspectives. Recent events run by SDHist include this convention last year, the 2022 Summit Award (given to Red Flag Over Paris), an online convention this March, and SDHistCon East at the U.S. Naval War College this August.
The events: Each SDHist convention comes with a wide selection of teach and play events, many by the designers themselves. The Wargame Bootcamp team will also be on hand with their famed teaching approach, and SDHist staff and volunteers will run several teaching events as well.
This year’s convention will feature a mix of historical game designers, publishers, influencers, and gamers. Attendees will have the opportunity to see and play games that no one else has seen with our various protospiel events. Designers will also demo games under development, and publishers will show off their best and brightest new and upcoming historical games. The convention will also feature panels and presentations on a variety of topics, including history, media, publishing, and community development.
The SDHist team is working on selecting the four finalists for the annual Summit Award. All four finalists will be available for play at this convention.
At past SDHist events, some of the GMT games taught have included Atlantic Chase, Twilight Struggle: Red Sea, Liberty or Death, Empire of the Sun, Flashpoint: South China Sea, Conquest and Consequence, Rebel Raiders on the High Seas, and many more. The events schedule for this year’s convention is still being finalized and will be published as we get closer to November, but expect to see a heavy GMT presence there with both new and classic titles.
Open gaming: There will be significant open gaming space available throughout the convention. Attendees can bring games they like and arrange games in advance via the convention Discord server or other platforms, or simply find people to play with at the event.
Pre-convention events: Registration for the November convention comes with access to the convention Discord server. That server will feature several pre-convention Zoom discussions with notable designers and influences in the historical gaming hobby, with access available both live and afterwards exclusively for convention attendees. One presentation, from designer Geoff Engelstein (Versailles 1919, Zheng-He: Admiral of the Ming Voyages) on the future of historical gaming, is already available on-demand for convention attendees. A full pre-convention event schedule is under development and will be published soon.
Registration: The staff at SDHistCon endeavor to make registration for the convention as painless as possible. And if you plan on playing some of your favorite GMT games, they recommend the following steps:
Register for an SDHistCon 2023 badge. Space is limited, and sales are far ahead of prior years, so those interested should do this as soon as possible.
Event “tickets” will be available to all convention badge holders. These tickets will be used to guarantee your entry to a particular game or event. The tickets are free, of course, and are only used to make certain no specific game session/demo is overbooked. The event schedule will be released in October, and event tickets will be available soon afterwards.
I told you all in the last customer update that I’d give you about a week’s notice before GMT’s Yearly Sale, so here it is! I wanted to let you all know roughly a week in advance so that you have time to plan your purchases. Here are the details of the sale:
SALE FOR P500 CUSTOMERS!! This sale is our “thank you” to all of you customers who use our P500 system. By using our P500 system, you help us have plenty of cash flow to keep printing our games while also letting us know which games you want the most. This sale is for P500 supporters who have had P500 items shipped from August 2021 (when we had our last sale) until the end of October 2022. We greatly appreciate your support, and this sale is our way of saying, “Thanks!” So, if you’ve received P500 items from us between August 1, 2021, and October 31, 2022, you will get 50% off in-stock GMT games and accessories (as well as games from SOME of our third-party vendors—see the list below for details).
Euro Friendly Shipping! Our friends at Second Chance Games and UGG have agreed to handle our UK and EU orders in the same manner they do for our P500 orders! This means that those of you in Europe WILL be able to get your sales items shipped out at a lower price that includes shipping, VAT, and fees. Just be sure to choose the “Euro-friendly” shipping option (which includes us pre-paying VAT) when you place your order (this is crucial—if you don’t choose the Euro-friendly method, the games will ship out individually at regular (higher) shipping prices, and you’ll have to pay VAT and possibly fees).
I want to say a special thanks to our friends at Second Chance Games and UGG for making it possible for us to provide these savings to our European customers!
Sale Details Sale Duration: 5:00 am (Pacific Time) November 15th to 11:59 pm (Pacific Time) November 21st, 2022.
Sale Discount: 50% off all IN-STOCK GMT products, except for the new CHARIOTEER and SKIES ABOVE BRITAIN. 50% off on many third-party games, expansions, magazines, or accessories (but not Hexasim and Vae Victis/Cerrigo products).
Who is Eligible for the sale? Any customer to whom we shipped P500 items from August 1, 2021, through October 31, 2022. It doesn’t matter when you ordered the items—only that you used P500 to order them and that they were shipped between August 1, 2021, and October 31, 2022.To help you know which P500 games make you eligible for the sale, here’s a list of P500 games we shipped between August 1, 2021, through October 31, 2022 (excluding the two currently-shipping P500 games):
1848 Australia Absolute War Almoravid Barbarossa: Army Group Center, 2nd Edition Battle Line, 11th Printing Battles for the Shenandoah, A Death Valley Expansion CDG Solo System Churchill, 3rd Printing Commands & Colors: Ancients, 7th Printing Conquest and Consequence Cuba Libre, 4th Printing Empire of the Sun, 4th Printing Fall of Saigon Fields of Fire: The Bulge Campaign Fire in the Lake, 3rd Printing Flashpoint: South China Sea Great Battles of Julius Caesar, Deluxe Edition Into the Woods MBT, 2nd Printing Musket & Pike Dual Pack Normandy ’44, 3rd Printing Norway, 1940: A PQ-17 Expansion Pacific War Panzer, 3rd Printing Panzer Expansion 1, 2nd Printing Panzer Expansion 2, 2nd Printing Panzer Expansion 3, 2nd Printing Plains Indian Wars Red Flag Over Paris Red Storm: Baltic Approaches Salerno ’43 Stalingrad ’42 Expansion SpaceCorp, 2nd Printing Tank Duel Expansion 1: North Africa Tank Duel Tank Pack #1 The Last Hundred Yards: Mission Pack #1 The Last Hundred Yards: Solomon Islands The US Civil War, 2nd Printing This Accursed Civil War, 2nd Printing Triumph and Tragedy, 3rd Printing Twilight Struggle Deluxe Edition, 8th Printing Vietnam, 1965-1975 Wing Leader Supremacy, 1943-1945, 2nd Edition
If you are unsure which of these items were shipped to you in 2021/2022, you can check your account on our website by logging in and then clicking “My Account” (at top right on any page of our website). Once you’re into your account, click the “Order History” tab on the left side of the page, and that will show you all of your recent orders/shipments.
Sale Quantity Limit:For each game that was delivered to you via our P500 program since August 1, 2021, you can order one in-stock item at 50% off. The only upper limit to how many games you can order is the number of games you received via P500 during that period.Example: If you received only one game via P500 between August 1, 2021, and October 31, 2022, you are eligible to order ONE in-stock item at 50% off in this sale. If you received 10 P500 games in that August 1, 2021, to October 31, 2022, window, you would be eligible to order up to 10 items in this sale.
Which items you can buy at 50% off Sale Price:
1. Any In-Stock GMT Game EXCEPT the two new P500 games that just started shipping this week (CHARIOTEER and SKIES ABOVE BRITAIN).
2. Any game, magazine, or accessory from any of our third-party vendors EXCEPT for Hexasim and Vae Victis/Cerrigo products.
3. You can also purchase Accessories as one of your “items”—Mounted Maps, Card Decks, or Miscellaneous Parts—if you run out of games you want to get at a discount. Note: We’ve done quite a few really nice Mounted Maps for a variety of games over the past few years. All of these that are still in stock are eligible for the sale. Here’s your chance to get some nice mounted maps at half price!
4. All Items on our Specials Page. Please remember that you absolutely CAN use the games on the Specials Page as part of these 50% off orders if you wish. These items are AMAZING values because you get to use your 50% off the already great “On Sale For” prices on this page! So check out the Specials Page and get some great deals! While They Last: These sale prices last for each offered game until it is sold out or until the sale ends on November 21, 2021, at 11:59 pm Pacific Time. We expect numerous games to sell out during the sale. When you try to add a game to your cart and get a message that the order exceeds quantity remaining in stock, it’s sold out. Please choose other games. We’ll do our best to update these with sold out notifications on their thumbnails and by moving them out of the in-stock category as quickly as possible during the sale to avoid confusion.
How to Get the Sale Price: Go to our website and prepare your order from eligible games (see above, in “Items you can buy at 50% off Sale Price”). Then, when you checkout, use the following code to get 50% off per item: GMTSale2022
NOTE: Please DO NOT combine Sale items on the same order as a P500 order. This makes it much more difficult for our office and warehouse folks to process.
Please Remember:
The sale begins on Tuesday, November 15th at 5:00 am Pacific Time and runs through 11:59 pm Pacific Time on November 21st.
Use discount code GMTSale2022 when you checkout with your sale orders in order to get the 50% discount.
Please DO NOT combine Sale and new P500 order items on one order. THANKS!
Feel free to use your shopping cart on our website between now and the start of the sale to build your sale order list. Then you’ll be able to order quickly once the sale begins next Tuesday.
The past year saw many physical boardgaming events cancelled out of necessity (including GMT’s Weekends at the Warehouse). Ever-resilient, the boardgaming community poured its energy into online/virtual events. The popular San Diego Historical Games Convention (SDHistCon) is doing exactly that and GMT Games will support it in a big way.
We’re now just four weeks away from WBC 2018 and I wanted to report on what we have planned for GMT’s Battles of the American Revolution tournament this year. Those of you that regularly check our folder on Consimworld or follow our Facebook page may already know some of this information. A refresher never hurts and I want to be sure those that don’t routinely get our posts will have everything they need to make a quality decision.
