Some of you asked me last week about our packing peanuts. I've been checking into it. Ours are recyclable but not biodegradable. I've found some other packing peanuts (same vendor) that ARE biodgradable - they dissolve in water. We have begun ordering those for future shipments.
Here's a peek at what will come inside the box of Imperial Struggle, designed by Ananda Gupta & Jason Matthews. You can look forward to more in detail images of some of the game components in the coming weeks. Enjoy!
Happy New Year, everyone! To all of you customers, content creators, and friends who helped us thrive in 2023 w/ your purchases, promotion, play, and passing the good word about our games, thank you SO much. We couldn't do this without all of you! Wishing you all an awesome 2024!
Congrats to designer Jerry White & the rest of the dev, art, & production team for Atlantic Chase! It has won the 2021 CSR awards for Wargame of the Year, Best WWII Wargame, Best Solitaire or Co-op Wargame, Best Wargame Components, & Best Wargame Rules!
@CharlieAwards
Here's a peek at the final cover art for Almoravid, the second game in the Levy & Campaign series from Volko Ruhnke (
@Volko26
). Enjoy!
If you would like to learn more about Almoravid or pre-order the game, you can find the P500 page here:
Here's a peek at the map art for Cuius Regio: The Thirty Years War, designed by
@FGradaille
. Enjoy!
To learn more or to pre-order Cuius Regio, you can go to the P500 page here:
Mr. President is all set up this morning at
@consimworld
Expo and we are ready to do some playtesting of the game's Sandbox scenario with
@rachellynnyo
and
@LukeBillingsley
. More updates to come!
Congrats to designers
@agauntpanda
and
@JasonDCMatthews
, as we've just sold out of our first print run (our largest initial print run ever) of their amazing new Imperial Struggle in about 3 months! Thanks to all of you who've bought, played, and told your friends about this game!
Congratulations to Stuka Joe and
@KuhnKen
, as their CDG Solo System has passed 500 on our P500 list (in about 18 hours!) and thus has Made the Cut! Thanks to all of you who have supported them and our company with your orders!
I figure the only downside is in the rare occasion that the inside of the packing box got wet - and in that case the contents are probably in trouble and we'd have to replace them anyway. So I think this will be a good - and green - upgrade for us.
Congrats to designers
@djackthompson
and
@gengelstein
and to all of the Zheng He dev and marketing team, as it just hit 500 on our P500 list, and thus has "Made the Cut." And thanks to all of you who have supported us with your orders and spreading the word about this cool game!
Congrats to designer
@FGradaille
, developer Wendell Albright, and all the team for Plantagenet. It has now passed 500 on our P500 list and thus has Made the Cut! Thanks to all of you who have supported us with your orders and by spreading the word!
Thanks to our awesome customers for a great first day in our 2023 Fall Sale! So far we're on pace for one of our best sale years ever. AND the first title to sell out in the sale is..... THE BRITISH WAY!! (Pericles has one copy left, so it's probably next.)
We began shipping today for our last P500 batch of 2021 (3 new games and 6 reprint editions):
New:
Conquest & Consequence
Red Flag Over Paris
The Last Hundred Yards: Solomon Islands
Reprints
Battle Line
C&C Ancients
Dom. Species
SpaceCorp
Triumph & Tragedy
Twilight Struggle
To all of our US customers: please accept our best wishes for a happy, blessed, and safe Thanksgiving. To ALL of our customers: we are thankful for each of you - for the support you give to us and also the ways that you contribute to the gaming hobby as a whole!
#BetterTogether
Check out today's digital update from GMT and Playdek including Labyrinth release news and a three minute video interview with Volko Ruhnke
@Volko26
@Playdek
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Today marks four years since designer Richard Berg's passing. We're still so thankful for all the wonderful games he brought to our hobby and for the talent and fun he brought to the GMT team. Here's a link to an RHB tribute Gene wrote in 2019. . Enjoy!
Wow. We just sold out of Atlantic Chase in a month. Thanks to all of you who have purchased and shared the good news about Jerry's newest design. We'll start working on reprint plans shortly. For those who want a copy now, stores and online sellers should still have good stock.
Congrats to designer John Butterfield and his development, art, and writing team. Their game, Away Team, just passed 500 on our P500 list in about 16 hours and has thus Made the Cut. Thanks to all of you who have supported us with orders and spreading the word about Away Team!
Two years ago I wrote this Farewell to my friend, Richard Berg, a giant in the wargaming hobby. It made me smile to read it again today. It reminds me both of Richard, who I miss, and of the deep and lasting imprint that good friends make on our lives.
Today we published a few near-final art files on the Almoravid page. We invite you to look through them and please send an email to Volko Ruhnke or Wendell Albright (see P500 page for email info) with any errors you might see. Enjoy!
Congrats to designer Marc Rodrigue & the rest of the dev, art, & production team for Bayonets & Tomahawks! It has won the 2021 CSR awards for Best Early Gunpowder Board Wargame 1453-1793 AD and Best Board Wargame Map Graphics!
@CharlieAwards
It's our 30th anniversary at GMT Games this year! Here's a "looking back" banner - part of a series Rodger is creating to help us celebrate 30 years of making lots of fun games and lots of great hobby friends all over the world! Thanks for supporting us along our 30-year journey!
Nevsky: Teutons and Rus in Collision, 1240-1242 has won a 2019 Charles S. Roberts Award in the Best Ancients to Pre-Napoleonic Era Board Wargame category! Congrats to Designer Volko Ruhnke!
You can learn more about Nevsky here:
On the anniversary of Richard Berg's passing, I always post a link to this InsideGMT article honoring my friend and one who brought so many of us joy around our game tables over five decades. Rest in Peace, Richard.
Keep an eye out for the May GMT Customer Update, coming late this week. It includes 2 new P500 games: one a co-design from 2 amazing designers. You MAY have heard about it, but the other (also from one of those designers) you won't see coming. All will be revealed by Friday....
Note to our P500 customers that we are charging THIS THURSDAY, May 2nd, for both A Gest of Robin Hood and Bayonets & Tomahawks, 2nd Printing. Please make sure your credit cards are up-to-date before Thursday. We’ll start shipping in about a week.
A quick reminder that we will Charge for the following P500 items this Tuesday, September 17: Red Dust Rebellion (YES!!!!), Labyrinth 5th Print, Labyrinth the Awakening 2nd Print, Labyrinth 3" Game Box. Please make sure your card info is updated before we charge on Tuesday.
Here's a fantastic learn to play video for
@fredserval
's A Gest of Robin Hood from Rodney at
@WatchItPlayed
!
To learn more about A Gest of Robin Hood or to pre-order, you can go to the P500 page here:
Enforce order as the Sheriff, or bring justice as Robin Hood in the upcoming game from
@gmtgames
and designer
@fredserval
: A Gest Of Robin Hood! Join me here and learn this asymmetric COIN* game set in the world of my favorite childhood hero: 1/3
Congrats to designer
@fredserval
& the rest of the dev, art, & production team for Red Flag Over Paris! It has won the 2021 CSR award for Best Late Gunpowder to Pre-World War I Board War-game, excluding American Civil War and Napoleonic Topics!
@CharlieAwards
Our warehouse is starting to clear out a bit, as we're almost finished with our current shipments. We should finish by Friday. Then we'll take a few days to get the Euro-friendly shipments for Gandhi and Peloponnesian War ready, and start shipping both of those by late next week.
Hi everyone! Check out our February Customer Update: New P500s, a completely reworked Production Outlook, New Reprints, Episode 3 of GMT Talk, and a Ton of other news. Enjoy!
To all our US customers, Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you get to share some good food and happy times with family/friends today. Who knows, maybe even share a good game. We're taking The Plum Island Horror and Ivanhoe to my mom's house today for the family gathering. Blessings!
New printings of four of our of our best-selling games - all P500 Reprints (plus the mounted maps item for Ardennes '44) - are Shipping Now! Thanks for your support in helping us get them reprinted. I hope they bring you many hours of fun! Enjoy the games!
Here is a peek at the final map for Volko Ruhnke's Nevsky: Teutons and Rus in Collision, 1240-1242 Enjoy!
If you would like to learn more about this game or to pre-order, the P500 page can be found here:
Here are some sample event and politician/region cards from yesterday's P500 addition, Lenin's Legacy by designer
@MatthiasCramer1
. Enjoy! For more info or to pre-order, check out our P500 page here:
Going to call it a night on the support front, everyone. Been at it about 15 hours, and need some sleep. Will check back in early am Pacific time. Thanks for all your patience and graciousness today - we needed it!
Congrats to designer Nick Karp, devs
@Toadkillerdog
and Ralph Shelton, and their test and art team, as Vietnam 1965-1975 has npw passed 500 on our P500 list, and thus "Made the Cut." Thanks to all of you who have supported the new GMT Edition of this game!
Here's the 2nd game going here at CSW Expo. Rick Engelbart, one of our dedicated long-term testers, is playing the Sandbox scenario on the Hard level, the hardest version of the game. Here are a few pics of how it's going so far (year 1). 1/4
Should have the Feb. GMT Customer Update in your inboxes by mid-week. Three new P500 additions this time: A Lunchtime game(s), a multi-player CDG, and a cool new Euro/Strategy game that, if history is any judge, wargamers are going to really like, too. Just a few more days...
@TheWargameNook
Please chat with our office ladies and ask them to send you replacement counters. Tell them I said to bill it to "Gene's Unforeseen Game Disasters Fund."
Just a note that you are seeing people who have received Imperial Struggle. These are developers & playtester copies. We ARE NOT yet ready to begin general P500 shipping, though it looks like we're getting close. We'll post an update on shipping timing within the next 24 hours.