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Showing posts with label GMT. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GMT. Show all posts
Tuesday, 19 November 2024

Look Back at my CoW 2024: List of Games

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Long overdue, but here it is! CoW 2024 at Missenden Hall, There were so many games in parallel sessions that you could have attended CoW 202...
Monday, 18 November 2024

Proud to have .. read a Book! "The Junior Officers Reading Club"

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This makes a welcome change from my usual Audible listening to a book behaviour, actually opening and leafing through the pages of a physica...
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Saturday, 4 November 2023

To Clip or Not To Clip .. Board Game Counters .. That is the Question!

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Although I do like my modelling (ahem, understatement) and my table top wargaming - along with plenty of models, even better when serendipit...
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Thursday, 3 August 2023

Learning Project: The Last Hundred Yards Boardgame - GMT

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The Last Hundred Yards (LHY) - WWII Tactical Wargame Rules. This (LHY) is my 2023 "Board Game" summer project. I missed the first ...
Wednesday, 9 November 2022

A Package from America: "Fire in the Lake" COIN Board Game - GMT P500

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In the hedonistic (pre-Covid) days where the UK pound was much stronger than the dollar, so transatlantic shipping (*) from America was off...
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Saturday, 26 February 2022

GMT Historical Game with Modern Connotations: Ukraine 1943

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Just looking at the GMT website and I came across this interesting game (see below, a different time, a different war but the same geography...
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Friday, 22 October 2021

Twilight Struggle (Finally Acquired)

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The final straw that broke my back was that it was "in a sale" (so yes, I am saving money .. OK, you may spot the logical fallacy ...
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Tuesday, 20 April 2021

Now this is an interesting game: Atlantic Chase - GMT Games

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From the moment I saw this game advertised on the GMT P500's I knew there was something special about it and after wantonly staring at i...
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Tuesday, 20 October 2020

Command and Colours Board Game: "Better Than Figures?"

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The set-up for the first battle, Akragas (see below, me playing against myself): Not quite a substitute for figures but more satisfying...
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Thursday, 15 October 2020

Note to Self: GMT Game, Atlantic Chase - Instructional Videos (P500 Game)

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#1 Introduction to Atlantic Chase #2 Trajectories in Atlantic Chase #3 Completion, Pass, and Signals in Atlantic Chase #4 Stealth in Atlanti...
Monday, 24 February 2020

Brexit and GMT Shipping: Consequences for Shipping Games from America

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To quote from their last email newsletter:  "A Brexit Update (Updated Feb. 20).  As I mentioned last month, now that Brexit is a real...
Thursday, 24 October 2019

New Arrival: Command and Colours Napoleonic

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Fresh from the GMT 500 reprint Napoleonic Command and Colours (see below, the wooden counters also saves "me" painting a lot of Na...
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Monday, 11 March 2019

Listen Up: Interesting Podcasts from People associated with GMT Games

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Wargaming and Board Gaming Podcasts: GMT Games: Gene Billingsley Part1 :- https://soundcloud.com/harold-buchanan/podcast-16-gene-billing...
Thursday, 15 November 2018

GMT Board Game: "A Distant Plain" Third Reprint

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This one has been on the "bucket list" for some time now - alongside Matrix Games. "Out of Print" and at ridiculous eBay...
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Saturday, 9 December 2017

Note to self: Board Gaming Site/Resource

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Interesting Board Game Web-Site: https://theboardgaminglife.com/about-us/ In particular a game about the Peloponnesian War (Athens v Spa...
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