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 and share another Holiday gift! Last year, we shared a print and play solo bot for Mark Herman’s Fort Sumter, and this year we decided to team up with Mark again and bring you a CDG Solo System playsheet for the Empire of the Sun game family.
First, a quick reflection on 2022:
- Early this year, GMT shipped our CDG Solo System with support for seven of our CDGs, and announced the second pack with support for six more games. Alongside the physical release, we gave a print and play option to the community for free, and it’s been cool to see your creations out in the wild.
- We also released Fall of Saigon, an expansion for Fire in the Lake, with a bot from Bruce Mansfield based on his popular Jacquard System which he designed for Gandhi.
- Flashpoint: South China Sea includes a quick and streamlined bot from Jason Carr.
- And the Fields of Fire team of Ben Hull, Andrew Stead, and Colin Parsons did incredible work to bring you The Bulge Campaign and the Third Edition rules, and is in the late stages of development for Fields of Fire Deluxe Edition.
In light of this great year, let’s celebrate! I asked Ken Kuhn, the CDG Solo System lead, to put together a playsheet for Mark Herman’s classic CDG Empire of the Sun. Not only that, but I asked him to make sure it would work with all the games in the Empire of the Sun family. Ken got to work, and adapted Chris Crane’s community “tweak sheet” to use the latest formatting and terminology consistent with GMT’s other playsheets.
This updated playsheet can be used four different ways:
- Play any of the scenarios included with Empire of the Sun.
- Play the “South Pacific” standalone scenario from C3i Nr. 30 (included in the Third and Fourth Printing of Empire of the Sun).
- Play the “Burma” standalone scenario from C3i Nr. 35
- Play the Plan Orange standalone game from C3i Nr. 29.
We hope this playsheet brings you hours of fun with Empire of the Sun, and that you have a very Happy Holidays and a wonderful start to 2023!
Author: Jason Carr
Does this playsheet work in conjunction with or in lieu of the existing solo system already in the EotS box?
This would be used instead of Erasmus, along with the CDG Solo System (which is available as a purchase or as a free print and play kit from the GMT website: https://www.gmtgames.com/p-908-cdg-solo-system.aspx)
Is this available in printed format ?
Sorry Robert, not at this time.
Well, well, what a nice surprise! I just got EotS for Christmas and now I get an additional bonus with it 🙂 Since I am going to play the game mostly solo, this is even better. Thanks!