Since it first arrived on the battlefield in the 12th Century, artillery has played an ever expanding role. This no less the case on the modern battlefield of 1987. Whether employed off-map or as on-map fire support, artillery assets are a major facet of MBT. In game terms, artillery comes in two flavors: individual on-map […]
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Designer Blogs, Examples of Play“Talon Tuesdays” is an article series appearing on InsideGMT periodically on Tuesdays. It features articles from the Talon development team regarding the game’s design, development and upcoming release. Issue #14: Space Empires Crossover Jim Krohn and GMT Games have another game called Space Empires: 4x. It’s a 4x (Explore, Expand, Exploit, Exterminate) board war game
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Designer BlogsIn this article, Doug continues the air force orders of battle discussion by focusing on the air forces for the secondary or intervention nations and discusses the why of some of the decisions which were made. This is part two of a two part series. – Mitchell Land The Air Forces of NWIP, Part 2 In Part 1 of “The Air Forces
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Designer Blogs“Talon Tuesdays” is an article series appearing on InsideGMT periodically on Tuesdays. It features articles from the Talon development team regarding the game’s design, development and upcoming release. Issue #13: Empire War I loved to play tactical space combat games as a teenager. One off scenarios were fun, but I almost always ended up designing
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Designer BlogsIn Gene’s last article, he said: “We’re now using Charlie’s most recent map version to create a Vassal Module so we can test the scenarios on the new map. We’ll tell you more about that process, as well as about a couple of new scenarios we’re adding, in our next InsideGMT post about the project.”
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Designer Blogs, Development Updates“Talon Tuesdays” is an article series appearing on InsideGMT periodically on Tuesdays. It features articles from the Talon development team regarding the game’s design, development and upcoming release. Issue #12: The Rulebook This isn’t my first board game project but it is my first time as a developer. Composing a rulebook is a real challenge.
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Designer Blogs“Talon Tuesdays” is an article series appearing on InsideGMT periodically on Tuesdays. It features articles from the Talon development team regarding the game’s design, development and upcoming release. Issue #11: Needing Bigger Guns There are three weapon types for each race in Talon. This symmetry of design seemed appropriate when we first started, but as
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Designer BlogsHere’s a look at the scenarios in Silver Bayonet, and some of the history behind them. There are two kinds of scenarios in the game: Standard and Campaign. The Standard scenarios are smaller and, for the most part, cover some portion of the action which occurred during the campaign. The Campaign scenarios are larger and more involved, although
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Designer Blogs, Inside the Game as History“Talon Tuesdays” is an article series appearing on InsideGMT periodically on Tuesdays. It features articles from the Talon development team regarding the game’s design, development and upcoming release. Issue #10 Empire War is a strategic game mode in Talon that does not use the written scenarios. It’s going to get its own Talon Tues in
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Designer Blogs, Playtest ReportsHistorical Situation, Yom Kippur War – At 2 PM on October 6th 1973, the Syrian army and air force launched a massive assault on the Israeli occupied Golan Heights. Three Syrian infantry divisions, bolstered with an armored brigade, assembled close to the border. In the rear, two powerful armored divisions were ready to exploit any
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