In 2024, my upcoming game Men of Iron Volume VII: Ermine was put onto the GMT P500 list, and reached its number relatively quickly. For those who don’t know, Men of Iron, created by Richard Berg is a hex and counter series of games focussed on medieval battles at the grand tactical scale. Ermine covers […]
Ermine Design Process & Historical Look at The Battle of Champtoceux Read Post »
Designer Blogs
Hubris – Twilight of the Hellenistic World takes one to three players twenty-two centuries back in time to the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean. This period is often little known, obscured by the great epopees of Alexander the Great (that preceded it), Hannibal (that took place simultaneously) or Julius Caesar (that followed it). It was nonetheless pivotal
The Hubris Histories – Book 1: Historical Overview Read Post »
Designer Blogs
In previous installments of this series we spent a lot of time on how the game works on the tactical scale, from the Dynamic Hexes and Counters and the Simple Structure of the action system, to how the opposition bot uses Contact to Contest Control. We began bridging the gap between the tactical and operational
Putting the Operation in TacOps Read Post »
Designer Blogs
Introduction by Congress of Vienna Assistant Designer/Editor, Fred Schachter – The CoV Team is privileged having in its rank’s educator Tyler Brooks, who with his co-teacher adapted Congress of Vienna for the classroom to teach students so they could experience the challenges of being in a coalition or facing one. The class they created was
This is the fourth in a series of InsideGMT articles from Paul Hellyer about his board game Tsar, currently on GMT’s P500. You can view the previous article here. Tsarist Russia was supposedly ruled by one person, but this didn’t keep Nicholas II’s subjects from debating the faults and merits of their government and hatching
Factions and Scoring in Tsar Read Post »
Designer Blogs
Introduction by Congress of Vienna Assistant Designer/Editor, Fred Schachter – The currently available Congress of Vienna Vassal Module may be found at Congress of Vienna Goes Electric, 2025 Edition (with VASSAL!) – InsideGMT, While this Module certainly works, and works just fine, as many of its users will attest, feedback indicated there is room for
Volunteers Sought to Help Playtest/Develop the Congress of Vienna Vassal Module Mark 2! Read Post »
Development Updates
The road to Manzikert is long… but only if you choose it to be! As the game gets closer to arriving to players, here is a spotlight on the scenarios in the game that showcase the breadth of available starting situations and game length options. Because SELJUK covers four years and turn length is a
The Scenarios of SELJUK: Byzantium Besieged Read Post »
Designer Blogs, Scenarios/Variants
This article continues the case study of the Battle of Issus started in the InsideGMT article Great Battles of Alexander: The Battle of Issus (Part 1), picking up the action with Game Turn 2. The Persians have the bulk of their Light Cavalry across the Pinarus and poised for an assault on the rather disorganized
Great Battles of Alexander: The Battle of Issus (Part II) Read Post »
Designer Blogs, Examples of Play
Introduction by Ancient Civilizations of the Middle East’s Game Developer, Fred Schachter: When ACME Designers Chris & Mark, as well as myself, first read in BGG James Lowry’s entertaining ACME Game After Action Report, we thought “Wow, wouldn’t this, with a bit of editing, be grand to share with InsideGMT’s audience?!?” and so this article
A House Divided now includes event cards, one of which is drawn each turn, and there are unique decks for each of the years of the war after 1861. Every card is drawn and played once, and so every one of the historic events portrayed by the card occur, but players are unsure in what
Weather in A House Divided Read Post »
Designer Blogs