The Last Hundred Yards Ladder Play After Action Report: Mission 13.0 — Bridge 10

Below you will find the third in a series of After Action Report articles written by players participating in The Last Hundred Yards ladder play on BGG. You can find the first two articles in this series here and here. If you would like to participate in the LHY ladder play, please contact Mark Buetow through the LHY Facebook […]

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18 India: Mitigating Randomness (Part 2)

In the previous InsideGMT article, we shared how 18 India mitigates the randomness of the initial distribution of certificates in Francis Tresham’s 1829 Mainline. In this issue, we will discuss another mechanic tweak that further decreases the randomness found in 1829 Mainline while maintaining its unique fun.

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“No Plan Survives Contact”: Playing Labyrinth: The Awakening (Part 2)

Below you will find the second in a four part article series from Elihu Feustel featuring a Labyrinth: The Awakening turn-by-turn playthrough. If you would like to read the first part in the series, that can be found here. Enjoy!

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The British Way: Kenya

We continue our chronological coverage of the individual games in The British Way by moving on to the British counterinsurgency campaign in Kenya from 1952-1960, although the game only covers the most intensive years from 1952-1956. While the British were beginning to gain the initiative in Malaya, they responded to rising violence and unrest in

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The Last Hundred Yards Ladder Play After Action Report: Mission 24.0 — All for a Piece of Dirt

Below you will find the second in a series of After Action Report articles written by players participating in The Last Hundred Yards ladder play on BGG. You can find the first article in this series here. If you would like to participate in the LHY ladder play, please contact Mark Buetow through the LHY Facebook page or on BGG.

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Cross Bronx Expressway: Modeling History Through City-Building

The map for Cross Bronx Expressway shows eight out of twelve community board districts in the southern section of the Bronx. A few communities in the city of New York, in the state of New York, in the country of the United States, on this planet we call Earth. The game zooms into this small

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The Last Hundred Yards Ladder Play After Action Report: Mission 9 — A Tough Nut to Crack

Below you will find the first in a series of After Action Report articles written by players participating in The Last Hundred Yards ladder play on BGG. If you would like to participate in the LHY ladder play, please contact Mark Buetow through the LHY Facebook page or on BGG. Enjoy!

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18 India: Mitigating Randomness (Part 1)

In the previous InsideGMT article, we mentioned that some of Tresham’s mechanics for 1829 Mainline contained randomness that we did not enjoy. In this article, let’s discuss those mechanics and what we did to preserve their flavor, while also managing to mitigate the random elements. As we have made our way along the 18 India

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“No Plan Survives Contact”: Playing Labyrinth: The Awakening (Part 1)

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The British Way: Malaya

In our last InsideGMT article we covered the British counterinsurgency campaign in Palestine between 1945-1947. Just as the British were withdrawing from Palestine, labor unrest was rising in the British colony of Malaya. In July 1948, the British declared a state of emergency against the rising unrest and violence being organized by the Malayan Communist

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