Defend the ROK: Allied Strategy Considerations in Next War: Korea

Dan Stueber is a long time Next War Series fan as well as a playtester. He has previously authored an article on a modifed Tactical Surprise scenario for Next War: Korea as well as After Action Reports for both the Tactical Surprise and Extended Buildup scenarios (links are to the first session reports). Here he has provided players with […]

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Strategy Articles

The Many Paths to Victory or Defeat in GMT’s Hitler’s Reich

Introduction: InsideGMT posts to date regarding Hitler’s Reich: A Card Conquest System Game (henceforth referred to simply as Hitler’s Reich) reference the game’s victory conditions in a somewhat disjointed basis, e.g. within context of an after-action-report, without providing an overview of players’ various potential “paths to victory” in a more cohesive manner. This article hopefully

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Designer Blogs

Colonial Twilight: Pieces and Force Structure

What are the forces in the game and what is their structure? Colonial Twilight has a total of 91 wooden pieces representing the various forces available to both sides. They are divided into the following types: Government (total 46 pieces) 21 French Police (light blue cubes) 9 French Troops (dark blue cubes) 6 Government Bases

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Designer Blogs

The Pendragon Chronicles — Vol. 1

Pendragon: The Fall of Roman Britain, Volume VIII of the COIN Series, presents a number of unique elements compared to its forebears, starting with not portraying a COunter-INsurgency at all! We are going to present the game and how it brings some exciting new stuff to the COIN family in this series of Chronicles over

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Designer Blogs

Next War: India-Pakistan – Pakistani Strategic Choices, Part 2

Doug Bush continues his Next War: India-Pakistan strategy series with this examination of the Pakistani Order of Battle and the various options they provide. See Part 1 of this series for a discussion of the overall strategic choices faced by the Pakistan player. Pakistan starts with six front line Army Corps with three more that

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Strategy Articles

Bayonets & Tomahawks, Volko Ruhnke and Barry Setser: A Perfect Collision at Stack Academie Montreal Last May

The French & Indian War is by far my favorite historical period. When Volko’s Wilderness War was published in 2001, it was the very first game that brought all I was looking for to that subject. I was glad I had abandoned a few years before my own inexperienced attempt at creating a FIW game.

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Designer Blogs

Next War: Poland Progress Update

I think that I’ve mentioned this before, but I was a little surprised by just how quickly Next War: Poland (NWP) vaulted up the P500 ladder. I had a rough Operational Map and a Strategic Display, and I had made a start on the Game Specific Rules. Based on the performance of the prior games in

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Designer Blogs, Development Updates

Hitler’s Reich — The Reasons Why, and What the Cards Represent

Introduction: Game Developer Fred Schachter, recently returned from WBC 2016 and its demo/playtests of Hitler’s Reich: A Card Conquest System Game (hereafter referred to as simply Hitler’s Reich); advises the game was well-received… particularly as it featured the cool card and map graphics professionally created by Charles Kibler.  It resulted in a bump of P-500

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Designer Blogs

Next War: India-Pakistan – Pakistani Strategic Choices, Part 1

Next War: India-Pakistan (NWIP) is unusual in the Next War series in that it involves scenarios where both of the main nations (India and Pakistan) are on the offense. As a result, there isn’t one “playbook” for the each side since, depending on the scenario in question, they must look at the map, their armies,

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Strategy Articles

GMT Games: State of the Union (Summer 2016)

As I mentioned in last month’s Customer Update, GMT is now growing at a pace that is significantly faster than ever before in our history. Although I don’t pretend to understand precisely the mix of factors behind our exploding growth, what I believe is that we are benefitting from a sort of “perfect storm”: Popular

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