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V.P.J. Arponen
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All Bridges Burning: Simulating the Finnish Civil War
As a gaming topic, the Finnish Civil War is relatively unknown. Gamers might therefore appreciate thematic guidance as to what they are thematically doing when...

All Bridges Burning: On the Concept of Terror
The Finnish civil war goes down as a particularly bloody conflict: in the space of a mere five months over 36 000 people died...

All Bridges Burning: Victory
This is the third InsideGMT article on All Bridges Burning, a COIN system game for three-players dealing with the political and military events surrounding the...

All Bridges Burning: A COIN System Game for Three Players
Exactly a hundred years ago today, in the night from 27 to 28 January 1918, the Red Revolt was launched in Finland. The revolt also...

Introducing All Bridges Burning: Red Revolt and White Guard in Finland, 1917-1918
All Bridges Burning is a COIN Series system game simulating the political and the military events of the Finnish Civil War of 1918 including a...

Hitler’s Reich: A “Bot” Driving Toward Moscow (Volume II of VPJ Arponen’s Bot series)
The following article is the 2nd volume of a two volume series (Volume 1 is here), written by VPJ Arponen, originally appearing on The Players’...

The Science of the COIN Bot: Volume I
The following article, written by VPJ Arponen, originally appeared on The Players’ Aid blog earlier this week. To make sure that all of our GMT customers...

Colonial Twilight: Playing the Game Solitaire
In previous Inside GMT articles, the designer Brian Train has written extensively on the various game play features of Colonial Twilight. In this article he...

Hitler’s Reich: AAR Using a New Solitaire System “Bot”
Introduction by Fred Schachter- Game Developer for Hitlerâs Reich: A Card Conquest System Game (henceforth referred to as simply Hitlerâs Reich) â Vesa âVezâ Arponen...