As we hit the 2 year mark for GMT One, it’s a good time to reflect and see how far we’ve come. This year, we were truly blessed to see all the session reports, reviews, pictures, videos, and smiles that you shared while playing our solitaire games. So, we wanted to bless you in return […]
The 2nd Annual GMT One Holiday Gift: A CDG Solo Playsheet for Empire of the Sun Read Post »
FreebiesStrategies 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
Secrets of the South Pacific – Part 2 Read Post »
Scenarios/Variants, Strategy ArticlesStrategies for South Pacific: Breaking the Bismark Barrier Scenario in Empire of the Sun The South Pacific Scenario was initially released in C3i Magazine #30 in late 2016. It was also integrated into the 2nd Edition/2nd printing (or 3rd Printing) of the Empire of the Sun base game that was released in Feb 2019. At
Secrets of the South Pacific – Part 1 Read Post »
Scenarios/Variants, Strategy ArticlesIntroduction When I was working on Empire of the Sun 2nd edition, Gene Billingsley convinced me to create a new solo system for the game. I blithely said ‘sure’ not realizing how much work this would entail and how difficult it is to write computer logic for humans. My history with solo systems goes back
Empire of the Sun: Erasmus Version 2.0 Goes to War Read Post »
Designer BlogsA few months ago, I pointed our customers to The Player’s Aid website as a site that creates consistently high-quality articles about our games (and others). I asked Grant, one of their founders and content creators, if he’d like to write an occasional article for InsideGMT to provide some added content to our site, and also to
Empire of the Sun Rules & Tactics Intro: Air Naval Combat Read Post »
Strategy ArticlesHappy 2015… here is what I have been up to since my last blog post: Churchill If Churchill was a ship launching, we have hit the hull with a bottle of champagne and we are fitting it out. As I write this, I just sent Mark Simonitch the final counter corrections and all
Design Update from Mark Herman Read Post »
Designer BlogsOver the past several years, my regular phone conversations with Mark Herman have usually included me – or sometimes Mark – referring to how great it would be when Mark finally could retire from his day job and get to design all those games he’s been wanting to create, essentially full-time. Well, those phone pipe dreams have
On the Design Table: Mark Herman Read Post »
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