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The Seven Years War: Frederick’s Gamble “Goes Electric” (with a New VASSAL Module!)

Fred Schachter / February 23, 2017 / 5 Comments

When Designer Greg Ticer and I began our partnership to bring The Seven Years War: Frederick’s Gamble, henceforth referred to as 7YW:FG, into published form; we could not anticipate nor imagine the great outpouring of enthusiastic support and encouragement of so many gamers, the play test team (from West Coast to East and to the […]

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Designer Blogs

New Features in Under the Southern Cross, Part I

Steven Paul / February 21, 2017

Designing a game that is part of an established and well-liked series such as Mike Nagelâ€™s Flying Colors (FC) requires a delicate balancing act. On the one hand, the setting for Volume IV requires some special handling: river shoals and sand bars, the preponderance of small vessels like gunboats and schooners, and some of the

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Designer Blogs

Why We Do What We Do in LHY: Armor Operations

Mike Denson / February 18, 2017 / 1 Comment

This is the fourth part of the series regarding “Why we do what we do in The Last Hundred Yards.” This article deals with Armor operations.

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Designer Blogs

Apocalypse Road Development Update

Jeff Horger / February 16, 2017 / 3 Comments

Carla and I are proud to announce that Apocalypse Road is in the tidying-up stage at this point. The game just went up on the P500 last month, so this is very fortunate. The idea for the game arose from the response we got from people at conventions where we demonstrated Thunder Alley. Invariably, someone

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Red Storm Playtest AAR, Part 2

Doug Bush / February 14, 2017 / 1 Comment

The following is part 2 of an after action review of my most recent test game of Red Storm with my good friend and playtest team member Chris Baer. This scenario is titled “Offensive Counter Air” and features two big NATO deep strike raids going over the front and into southwestern East Germany. In Part

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Playtest Reports

The Last Hundred Yards: Narrative of Mission 1.0 – Prayer Meeting

Bob Green / February 9, 2017 / 2 Comments

An American platoon has setup an outpost in and around the St. Michel Church in sector 4. Two German platoons have been tasked with capturing this outpost and driving the American’s back.

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Designer Blogs

“It’s a Cruel, Cruel World!” – A Replay of a Three-Player Game of Ancient Civilizations of the Inner Sea

Mark McLaughlin / February 7, 2017

“It’s a cruel, cruel world!” is all my friend Max told his 22 year old son, Bennett, in preparation for his first game of Ancient Civilizations of the Inner Sea. Bennett soon discovered and showed us just how cruel it could be, as in just one short evening all manner of calamities befell our empires,

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Designer Blogs

Tank Tales #2: Ready, Aim, Fire!

Jason Carr / February 2, 2017 / 4 Comments

As we have been playtesting Tank Duel: Enemy in the Crosshairs, the number one thing that players want to learn about is how the game works once the shells start flying. Tank Duel draws inspiration from games like Up Front, Panzer and Combat Commander, with an abstract movement system but detailed fire action resolution procedure

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Designer Blogs

Red Storm Playtest AAR, Part 1

Doug Bush / January 31, 2017

The following is an After Action Review of my most recent test game of Red Storm on a long Friday morning and afternoon with my good friend and playtest team member Chris Baer. This was a test of one of the bigger scenarios in Red Storm, “Offensive Counter Air”, which features two big NATO deep

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Playtest Reports

Empire of the Sun Rules & Tactics Intro: Air Naval Combat

Alexander Klein / January 26, 2017 / 9 Comments

A few months ago, I pointed our customers to The Player’s Aid website as a site that creates consistently high-quality articles about our games (and others). I asked Grant, one of their founders and content creators, if he’d like to write an occasional article for InsideGMT to provide some added content to our site, and also to

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