Your First Game: Combat Commander for Beginners and Experts

Author’s Note: this article has Combat Commander: Europe as its focus, but is more or less applicable to the series in general. Speaking in the broadest of terms, if you are thinking of playing your first-ever game of Combat Commander, you fall somewhere along a spectrum that starts with people who have never played a […]

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Hobby General Interest

Ancient Civilizations of the Middle East: Meet the Assyrians

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Designer Blogs

Nevsky: Scenario Balance and Strategy

The designer gives us a close look at the shorter scenarios in Volume I of the Levy & Campaign Series, with advice for competitive play plus possible adjustments to even the odds in one of them. A detailed look at how the game works appears in five parts starting with Part 1 here.

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Designer Blogs

Ancient Civilizations of the Middle East Design Background and Differences from Ancient Civilizations of the Inner Sea Part 4 of 4: The “Real History” Behind the Game

Introduction Part 1 of this series provided General Background regarding GMT’s upcoming Ancient Civilizations of the Middle East (ACME). Part 2, Playing Your Role, covered a recommended player attitude when engaged in a game of ACME to best get into the spirit of the game and have a grand fun time. Part 3 addressed how ACME

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Designer Blogs

Commands & Colors: Medieval Belisarius Campaign Part 4 – Satala (530 AD)

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After Action Report

Historic Characters in Banish the Snakes: Moninne

Born in Ulster Province, Moninne was the daughter of Machta, a high chief of Ulaid. Tradition says that she was baptized as a child and also later confirmed by Saint Patrick himself. It is said that he predicted that her name would be remembered forever. Perhaps because of this prediction, she chose a religious life,

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Designer Blogs, Inside the Game as History

Ancient Civilizations of the Middle East: Meet the Indus Valley Civilizations (or “Dravidians, Harappans, and Mauryans, oh my!”)

Below is a replacement, prompted by GMT fan feedback, for the fourth in a series of articles from Mark McLaughlin showcasing the 16 civilizations in Ancient Civilizations of the Middle East.  Please note there’s an associated map change: PACTYA, in the map’s SE corner, is now MOHENJO-DARO. You can find the first three articles in

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Designer Blogs

Combat Sequence in Seas of Thunder

The concept for a combat flow chart is as old as the hills in war gaming. While I don’t think Neal, Chuck or myself broke any new ground on the concept, I think our implementation of the system is quite a pleasant and engrossing experience. One glance at our system should make it clear that

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Designer Blogs

Historic Characters in Banish the Snakes: Brendan

Right in the middle of this important era in Irish history is the curious story of Brendan the Navigator. Born into a common family of fishermen on the Atlantic coast of Munster, he was baptized by Saint Erc, and as a boy studied under “the Brigid of Munster”, Saint Ita. He continued his ecclesiastical studies

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Designer Blogs, Inside the Game as History

Introduction to the Weimar Republic: Paths to Victory

Weimar Germany was a period of political tumult and huge swings in public opinion. The war-torn country, struggling with a polarization that went way deeper than simply class differences and party politics, was as a staging ground for the great ideological battles of the time – the mass ideologies of Communism and Fascism competed not

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