An Illustrated SpaceCorp: Ventures Solo Session Report: The Planeteers Era

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While sheltering-in-place during our present global circumstances, I had the privilege to playtest the upcoming expansion to SpaceCorp, titled SpaceCorp: Ventures. One of my favorite parts of the new game is the updated solo play options, especially the custom competition HQ! In this article, we take our player HQ, New Nomads, out of the inner […]

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Solitaire Systems

Panzer North Africa On The Horizon

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We usually announce new P500 game information when we add the game to our P500 list. Every once in a while, though, especially for game series with strong followings, we give you some insider previews here in InsideGMT. Today, designer James Day gives us a peek at the next game in his popular Panzer series.

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All Bridges Burning: Examples of Play to Keep the Doctor Away #2: Activism + Political Event

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In the latest InsideGMT articles on All Bridges Burning, we kicked off a series of short posts going through the base game commands and special activities to help gamers ease into playing the game with minimum effort. Last time we looked at the Rally command and the Prepare special activity. Today we continue that series

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Designer Blogs, Examples of Play

An Illustrated SpaceCorp: Ventures Solo Session Report: The Mariners Era

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While sheltering-in-place during our present global circumstances, I had the privilege to playtest the upcoming expansion to SpaceCorp, titled SpaceCorp: Ventures. One of my favorite parts of the new game is the updated solo play options, especially the custom competition HQ! In this article, we will take a look at how the new player HQ

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Solitaire Systems

Strategies for Russian in Congress of Vienna: “We are Russians… God is with us!![1]”

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Introduction by Congress of Vienna (CoV)’s Editor, Fred Schachter – To familiarize the InsideGMT audience of what designer Frank Esparrago accomplished with his fun and exciting Congress of Vienna game, now a GMT P-500 offering which has “Made the Cut” and then some (thank you patrons, thank you so very much!) kindly reference previous InsideGMT

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Designer Blogs, Strategy Articles

All Bridges Burning: Examples of Play to Keep the Doctor Away #1: Rally + Prepare

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As I write this, the preorders placed on All Bridges Burning have just been charged and the game is due to begin to ship within the next few weeks. In the last few InsideGMT articles on All Bridges Burning, we looked at the game’s solitaire system in action (see those articles here, here, and here).

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Designer Blogs, Examples of Play

An Illustrated SpaceCorp: Ventures Solo Session Report: Introduction and Competition HQ

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While sheltering-in-place during our present global circumstances, I had the privilege to playtest the upcoming expansion to SpaceCorp, titled SpaceCorp: Ventures. One of my favorite parts of the new game is the updated solo play options, especially the custom competition HQ! Over several articles, I’ll be playing the new player HQ New Nomads against the

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Solitaire Systems

Enhanced Competition in Solo SpaceCorp

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Like its parent game, our forthcoming SpaceCorp expansion, SpaceCorp:Ventures includes a dedicated solo version with its own rules. For Ventures, designer John Butterfield tweaked the Solo AI to make it tougher to beat, by enhancing the competition’s responsiveness to the strategic situation on each era’s board. Players who enjoyed the original SpaceCorp solo game and

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Designer Blogs, Scenarios/Variants

All Bridges Burning: Solitaire System Part 3

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We return with the third installment of our running non-players only playthrough of All Bridges Burning. The previous two installments can be found here and here.

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Designer Blogs, Examples of Play

How to Win as the Hapsburgs in Here I Stand

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Below you will find another fantastic article from Clio’s Board Games, this time discussing Hapsburg player strategy in Here I Stand. You can also find this article on Clio’s blog. If you are interested in Clio’s Board Games’ previous series on InsideGMT discussing the fall of Communism through the lens of GMT’s 1989, you can read that here. Enjoy! -Rachel

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