Introduction by Fred Schachter, Assistant Designer & Editor: As this article’s preceding Part 1 of 2 explained, what you have here is an excerpt from Congress of Vienna’s Playbook, it’s Section 16, which provides a detailed example of a turn’s play from the “Clash of Armies” scenario. It features Terry Leeds’ beautiful graphics for this […]
So what’s going on with Fields of Fire Deluxe? In October 2022, a draft of the new rulebook went online. This is due for another update once all the components are done to add new images along with a handful of new clarifications. The rulebook now contains all the base rules, with full explanations and
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Developer Notes, Playtest ReportsHi everyone! It’s always exciting for us to see our games played in so many different places, so for those interested we’d like to share some photos (and one video) from some of the conventions we’ve seen GMT titles played at recently. Enjoy! Buckeye Game Fest, April 2023 (Convention Report by The Players’ Aid. If
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Many strange situations crop up when playtesting even when that game is the sixth (or seventh? – TBD) game in the series. In this case, the playtesters ended up in a situation that required some working through the nuances of the rules. It didn’t break anything or require adding new rules, but it presented an
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Designer Blogs, Developer Notes, Examples of Play, Playtest ReportsBorikén: The Taíno Resistance includes three separate games, each covering a distinct period of the history of the Taíno people of Borikén (modern day Puerto Rico). Each game uses the same map and the same basic system, but with different additional rules and objectives to model the particularities of its era. In my previous article
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Developer Notes, Playtest ReportsIntroduction by Fred Schachter, Assistant Designer & Editor: What you have here is an excerpt from Congress of Vienna’s Playbook, it’s Section 16, which provides a detailed example of a turn’s play. It features Terry Leeds’ beautiful graphics for this upcoming P-500 game’s components. Since readers don’t have the game’s related Playbook content as background,
We all are thrilled and waiting for another great space-related creation of John Butterfield – Away Team. However, there are still many players who needs introduction to the previous title from that designer which stormed hearts and minds of so many fans of our hobby (including the one writing this words) – SpaceCorp. And that is exactly
Introduction: We explained in the previous article how CoV’s Solitaire Game’s Initial and Diplomacy Phases utilize Stuka Joe’s marvelous Card Driven Games’ Solo Method (CDGSM) adapted for Congress of Vienna: Designing the Congress of Vienna Solitaire Game, Part 1of 2: Diplomacy and The French Bot | Inside GMT blog. In this article we continue this
Borikén: The Taíno Resistance includes three separate games, each covering a distinct period of the history of the Taíno people of Borikén (modern day Puerto Rico). Each game uses the same map and the same basic system, but with different additional rules and objectives to model the particularities of its era. The first game, taking
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Developer Notes, Playtest ReportsArticle written by Pascal Toupy and Tom Toupy-Durant The French campaign in Egypt and Syria is probably the most misunderstood of Napoleon’s military epics. And yet it is the foundation of the Napoleonic legend. Indeed, Bonaparte’s seclusion on Egyptian soil gave him the opportunity to test his ability to manage and lead a conquered territory
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