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David Waldorf
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Five Manoeuvre Strategy Tips
The relatively simple rules of Manoeuvre leave plenty of room for stratagem, despite the card-fueled bouts of dice-chucking. Sometimes the game feels like chess as...

Interview with Jim Krohn, Designer of Space Empires: All Good Things
A couple of months ago, I sat down to a web call with Space Empires designer Jim Krohn to talk about his game series and...

Combat Commander: Europe Random Scenario Setup Example
The random scenario generator in Combat Commander: Europe is perhaps one of the most underrated features of the game. It vastly expands replayability, offering new...

Combat Commander: Europe Scenario 101 Rubble-Rousers — AAR and Lessons Learned
Below you will find another fantastic article from David Waldorf, one of our InsideGMT contributors. If you would like to read his previous articles on...

Combat Commander: Europe Scenario 11 Narrated AAR
Background, Notes, and Setup Information: For those who have not played Scenario 11 of Combat Commander: Europe or need a refresher on the backstory, it...

Space Empires Close Encounters: A New Way to Add Amoebas
The method used in the Close Encounters scenario book for adding amoebas gives you a predetermined placement for the amoebas, which is great for balance...

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...

Space Empires: Close Encounters — More Ways to use Alien Technology
The Alien Technology deck is a fun feature of the Close Encounters expansion that rewards you for colonizing deep space planets by giving you access...

Space Empires Close Encounters: Unique Ships
When Jim Krohn and his team included Unique Ships in the Space Empires: Close Encounters expansion, they opened the door to a cardboard shipwright’s dream...

Space Empires Close Encounters: More Encounters
One of the (many!) best parts of the Space Empires: Close Encounters (CE) expansion was the addition of the empire advantages deck. If you are...