Luther’s Baptism of Fire: The Leipzig Debate As Seen Through Here I Stand

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The Arjuna Chronicles #10: Independence Day Defiantly Declared

Gandhi includes a brand new Solitaire system, called Arjuna, that replaces the flowcharts that have become a staple of the COIN Series. Players who play COIN Solitaire have asked many questions about how the system works – and don’t fear! – COIN Series Developer Jason Carr is here to walk through the design, ergonomics, and

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Designer Blogs

Labyrinth: The Forever War – Challenges in Designing a Simulation Game Based on Current Events

Labyrinth: The Forever War is the second expansion to Labyrinth: The Global War on Terror and follows five years after publication of the first expansion, Labyrinth: The Awakening. Like its predecessors, Forever War adds 120 new event cards to the Labyrinth game system, and like Awakening, covers five years of current events (roughly 2015 through 2019). Forever

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Designer Blogs, Development Updates

Weak Arms, Deep Pockets, and Big Mountains: British/Piedmont Play in Clash of Sovereigns

Like his Prussian/Spanish player foe, the British/Piedmont player has a multi-faceted and sometimes schizophrenic role in COS. But unlike the Prussian/Spanish, the British player has growing roles and goals through the campaign. Unfortunately, the same similarities can’t be said for the Prus and Brit armies 🙂 ; the British and “Pieds” vie for having the weakest armies (by

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Designer Blogs, Strategy Articles

The Arjuna Chronicles #9: Simla Conference Divides India

Gandhi includes a brand new Solitaire system, called Arjuna, that replaces the flowcharts that have become a staple of the COIN Series. Players who play COIN Solitaire have asked many questions about how the system works – and don’t fear! – COIN Series Developer Jason Carr is here to walk through the design, ergonomics, and

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Designer Blogs

The Arjuna Chronicles #8:The Salt March

Gandhi includes a brand new Solitaire system, called Arjuna, that replaces the flowcharts that have become a staple of the COIN Series. Players who play COIN Solitaire have asked many questions about how the system works – and don’t fear! – COIN Series Developer Jason Carr is here to walk through the design, ergonomics, and

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Designer Blogs

The Arjuna Chronicles #7: Sarojini Naidu Inspires the Masses

Gandhi includes a brand new Solitaire system, called Arjuna, that replaces the flowcharts that have become a staple of the COIN Series. Players who play COIN Solitaire have asked many questions about how the system works – and don’t fear! – COIN Series Developer Jason Carr is here to walk through the design, ergonomics, and

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Designer Blogs

The Gandhi Chronicles #6: Playing the Muslim League in Gandhi — Operations and Special Activities

The Muslim League is one of two Nonviolent Factions in Gandhi, alongside Congress. Though they share the same Operations and two of the same Special Activities with Congress, the Muslim League has different victory goals that will eventually pull them away from their Congress allies, perhaps even leading them to work with the British to

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Designer Blogs

Secrets of the South Pacific – Part 2

Strategies for South Pacific: Breaking the Bismarck Barrier Scenario in Empire of the Sun Welcome back to the 2nd half of this strategic study of the South Pacific Scenario from C3i Magazine #30. For those who haven’t read Part 1, it can be found here on Inside GMT. Remember, I’ll be discussing South Pacific strategy

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Scenarios/Variants, Strategy Articles

The Barracks Emperors Preview

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Designer Blogs, Examples of Play, Playtest Reports, Videos
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