Tag: GMT Games
Posted on December 23, 2023
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Every month, GMT Games reliably send out an update on what they’re doing, which P500 orders are being charged and sent out, new P500 order opportunities, and just basically a “what’s going on at GMT Games” kind of update post. I don’t always do… Continue Reading “Highlights from the December GMT Update”
Category: Board Games, GMT UpdateTags: A World at War, Atlantic Chase, Combat Commander, Combat Commander: Battle Pack #9: Island Hopping, Combat Commander: Pacific, Commands & Colors: Medieval, Defiance, GMT Games, Norman Conquests: Men of Iron V, Normandy '44, Playdek, Plum Island Horror, Red Dust Rebellion, Seljuk: Byzantium Besieged, Simple Great Battles of History, Wolfpack
Posted on December 22, 2023
by whovian223
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It’s the last Friday before Christmas and all through the malls, too many creatures were stirring, so much so that I would rather carve Shem Phillips’ initials into my hand with a penknife than go shopping. I think that’s how that old Christmas poem… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Catch Up Mechanisms”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: Action Selection, Auction Games, Cryptozoic, Daily Magic Games, DC Comics Deck-Building Game, Dice Drafting, Food Chain Magnate, Food Chain Magnate: The Ketchup Mechanism and Other Ideas, Formal Ferret Games, GMT Games, Isle of Skye, Mayfair Games, Power Grid, Rio Grande Games, Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria, Splotter Spellen, The Networks, Twilight Struggle, Twilight Struggle: Red Sea, Worker Placement Games
Posted on December 12, 2023
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There’s just something about the simplicity of the plastic tray solutions provided by Rails on Board/Cube4Me. Something that’s really attractive. I think it’s the ability to nest trays together so you only need one lid, as long as the counters you are storing in… Continue Reading “The Last Hundred Yards – Russian Front – Storage Solution With Rails on Board”
Posted on December 9, 2023
by whovian223
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What is this? It’s the first half of the month and I’m already doing my monthly Combat Commander ladder report? Isn’t it usually just squeezing it in on the last day? No! Not this month. Merry Christmas. And welcome to another tale of boardgaming… Continue Reading “Combat Commander – After Action Report – Scenario 55 – Graveyard of the North Shores”
Posted on November 30, 2023
by whovian223
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With a convention coming in November, I had a feeling that this New to Me games list would get pretty hefty. Little did I know how hefty it would get! This was a big month for new to me games. Even better, many of… Continue Reading “New to Me – November 2023”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 2-Player Games, 999 Games, Action Selection, Amigo Spiel, Brotherwise Games, Caesar: Rome vs Gaul, Century: a New World, Codenames: Deep Undercover, Czech Games Edition, Devir, Dice Drafting, Emerson Matsuuchi, Empire's End, Fréderic Moyersoen, GMT Games, Hellapagos, Isra C, John D Clair, Last Hundred Yards Volume 2: Airborne Over Europe, Laurence Gamelin, Lunch Time Games, Mark Simonitch, Mike Denson, Party Games, Philippe Gamelin, Plan B Games, Saboteur: the Dark Cave, Shei S, Team Games, The White Castle, Vlaada Chvátil, Wargames, Worker Placement Games
Posted on November 28, 2023
by whovian223
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With a convention at the beginning of the month, it was a no-brainer that November would be a bigger gaming month than October had been. However, after working remotely for most of the month (so no lunch-time games, since I’m usually doing stuff around… Continue Reading “November 2023 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Ark Nova, Capstone Games, Combat Commander, Contracts, Cooperative Games, Daily Magic Games, Dice Drafting, Dominant Species, Flash Point, GMT Games, Indie Boards & Cards, Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria, Wargames
Posted on November 22, 2023
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A brand new GMT game and I already have a storage solution with Cube4Me trays set up! Yep, that’s what I’m saying. Prime Minister is a game I just picked up from the P500 list from GMT. And I managed to pick it up… Continue Reading “Prime Minister – Storage Solution With Rails on Boards”
Posted on November 20, 2023
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Welcome to another tale of warfare and adventure on the Combat Commander ladder, which affords me the opportunity to play one of my favourite games with a bunch of really cool people. The ladder is run by the ineffable Patrick Pence, he of Patrick’s… Continue Reading “Combat Commander – After Action Report – Scenario 44 – Stalingrad of the North”
Posted on November 12, 2023
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It’s time for another in a series of reviews of storage tray solutions from Rails on Boards/Cube4Me, as they endeavour to corner the market on these plastic trays. I even have a bunch of GMT counter trays that I haven’t used because of this!… Continue Reading “People Power – Storage Solution From Rails on Boards”
Posted on November 10, 2023
by whovian223
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Hey there! It’s been a while, I know. It seems like you were just in here last week! Take a seat at the bar and take a load off. I’ll get you anything you want. Let me turn down the jukebox. Who put MC… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Update & Upcoming Games”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: Action Selection, Brotherwise Games, Contracts, Daily Magic Games, Empire's End, GMT Games, Guild Academies of Valeria, John D Clair, Mike Denson, No Thanks, Paul Hellyer, Prime Minister, Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria, Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria - Riftlands, Stan Kordonskiy, The Last Hundred Yards Volume IV: The Russian Front, Tile-Laying Games, Wargames