Frank Chadwick’s ETO Series

ETO September ’24 Project Update: The Present and Future of Frank Chadwick’s ETO

Alan Emrich / September 17, 2024 / 15 Comments

Let us set the Wayback Machine to review Frank Chadwick’s ETO’s past year of development and bring you up to the present with a look into this project’s future. The multiple volumes of ETO have seen the “completion” (always subject to further playtesting, but there have been very few changes to the rules .docs as […]

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ETO Series: August 2021 Update

Alan Emrich / August 6, 2021 / Leave a Comment

Frank Chadwick’s ETO: Gestating an Elephant For this update series, we must preface with: Our focus remains vigilantly on “the larger picture” of combined ETO volume games. One of our Prime Directives for this project’s development is that, when you play multiple volume games together, they integrate as seamlessly as possible. You will see screenshots

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TITE’s Interesting Turn, Part IV: A Campaign Game Spring ’43 Turn for the History Books!

Alan Emrich / June 29, 2021 / Leave a Comment

Below you will find Part 4 in the “TITE’s Interesting Turn” series from Alan Emrich and Jeff Nyquist. If you would like to read Parts 1, 2, and 3 on InsideGMT, you can find those here, here, and here. The full article series is also available to read on the ETO Series Blog here. Enjoy!

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TITE’s Interesting Turn, Part III: A Campaign Game Spring ’43 Turn for the History Books!

Alan Emrich / June 15, 2021 / Leave a Comment

Below you will find Part 3 in the “TITE’s Interesting Turn” series from Alan Emrich and Jeff Nyquist. If you would like to read Parts 1 and 2 on InsideGMT, you can find those here and here. The full article series is also available to read on the ETO Series Blog here. Enjoy!

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TITE’s Interesting Turn, Part II: A Campaign Game Spring ’43 Turn for the History Books!

Alan Emrich / June 1, 2021 / Leave a Comment

Below you will find Part 2 in the “TITE’s Interesting Turn” series from Alan Emrich and Jeff Nyquist. If you would like to read Part 1 on InsideGMT, you can find that here. The full article series is also available to read on the ETO Series Blog here. Enjoy! Part II: The Great Pressure Point

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May 2021 ETO Project Update and TITE’s Interesting Turn, Part I

Alan Emrich / May 18, 2021 / Leave a Comment

Frank Chadwick’s ETO Project Update May 2021 From the project development team Work continues on the Extended Examples of Play for the complete series of game volumes. We have found this an excellent way to “playtest” the down-in-the-weeds level of the game and rules and make small adjustments to ensure that the historical storyboard emerges

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November 11th Update from the ETO Development Team

Alan Emrich / November 11, 2019 / Leave a Comment

Armistice, Veterans, and Grognards, On behalf of the Frank Chadwick’s ETO development team, we are happy to celebrate this day that saw the end of the First World War, when we honor our veterans who stood up and defended America, and to that list we want to add our own nod to wargame grognards who

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Frank Chadwick’s ETO Design Philosophy

Alan Emrich / November 10, 2019 / 1 Comment

OR: Applying Decades of Lessons since Battle for Moscow The ETO series has four major design goals: GOAL 1: A mechanically smooth system; this means a minimum of rules exceptions and special cases, and a minimum of bookkeeping. GOAL 2: Game units, resources, and systems which are concrete as opposed to abstract. GOAL 3: Recognizing

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