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Hi everyone! 

I want to begin today with a shout-out to our art department. As you'll note when you check out the Tentative Production Schedule late in this update, our art department just sent NINE items to the Printer. Some months you guys only see one or two games go to the printer, but Mark Simonitch, Charlie Kibler, and Rodger MacGowan - and the many fine artists who work with them - are always working away in the background, creating more great-looking components for our games. So this time they've given you guys a ton of new games to look forward to in just a few months. Check those out, and raise a glass to one of the jewels in the GMT Crown: Our Art Department!

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This is an especially busy work week here at the GMT offices, as we're prepping to host over 100 gamers starting in two more days at our 37th(!) GMT Weekend at the Warehouse event. I think past attendees are going to be a bit surprised at the spacious warehouse configuration (we have more space now!) that our fine office and warehouse folks have been working long hours to prepare for them.

This twice-yearly event is a favorite of mine, not just because we host it here at GMT's "home base," but because it's such a great time to renew friendships and welcome new attendees to the family of Weekend at the Warehouse Warriors. I also get to meet with numerous designers and developers, and am very much looking forward this time to getting a first-hand look at several new game designs as well as assessing progress on games already in our design pipeline. Our friends from Playdek will be here again this time, so I'm sure I will also get a detailed update on the various projects we have in the works with them.

A note on digital while I'm thinking of it. I don't have a digital update section in today's update. It's not that I'm ignoring you digital players, I just don't have new information from either Playdek or HexWar that I can share TODAY (Keep your eyes peeled for an announcement later in the week, though!). Hopefully we can have more detailed news for you on those fronts in May.

We have lots of cool new information to share with you at this time, including a very clever new P500 game from Brad Johnson and Wray Ferrell, plus some reprints, a mounted map for Normandy '44, and a 3" deep Space Empires box going up on our P500 list. We also have a bunch of new games in from a couple of our overseas design/distribution partners, Cérigo and Kuro Neko, that I think you'll find interesting and fun. And be sure to check out our How to Play videos below, as we now have outstanding teaching videos for both Sekigahara and Dominant Species: Marine. We'll get to all that in just a bit. 

But first, with my "long-time wargamer" hat on, I'd like to point you to a couple of articles that I think you wargamers especially will really enjoy. The first is from InsideGMT. It's called General Eisenhower's Armchair: How War Becomes a Game, by Jared Alexander. Jared's article really connects with my wargamer roots, with a lot of the reasons that I personally enjoy wargames. His description of the Metropolitan Wargamers "bunker" and the people that play games there makes me wish we had a similar place in our city. And his descriptions of how and why people play these type of games had me nodding my head throughout and feeling a little nostalgic for the days when I had a lot more free time to play wargames. Jared, if you're reading this, thanks for taking the time to write that article. It was REALLY well done, and very much appreciated. Thanks!

The second article link that I'd like to share today is a recent article from Dr. James Lacey in War on the Rocks. Dr. Lacey is the Professor of Strategic Studies at the Marine Corps War College. You may remember that we had advertised an event at the Marine War College in early April that utilized several of our Next War series games for training, and that Mitch Land was attending to help facilitate. Dr. Lacey's article focuses on that event. It is part After-Action Report, with great details and pictures of Marine Corps officers and instructors playing a full-blown Global War scenario in Europe, Taiwan, and Korea. But it's also a fascinating look into the mindsets of players as they wrestle with operational and strategic issues, and into the thought processes of an instructor who sees wargaming as a crucial professional exercise to allow mid-high-level officers to grapple with strategic decision-making. This article was fascinating to me, and it made me really proud that we have created something that our professional military finds useful as a teaching tool. I think you'll enjoy it, too. Thanks for writing it, Dr. Lacey!

Check out Dr. Lacey's article here: HOW DOES THE NEXT GREAT POWER CONFLICT PLAY OUT? LESSONS FROM A WARGAME.

Now let's move on to the rest of today's news....

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Video Tutorials for our games! One of our strategic objectives over time is to build external creative partnerships and internal capacity to create high-quality video tutorials for our games. The first two of these are available now, from Rodney Smith at Watch it Played! and Paul Grogan at Gaming Rules! Check them out at the links below:

Watch it Played! Video Tutorial for Sekigahara.  If you'd like to learn how to play one of our all-time best-selling games in 37 easy minutes, check out Rodney's excellent video, below.




Gaming Rules! Video Tutorial for Dominant Species: Marine. Paul's video tutorial for Chad Jensen's upcoming Dominant Species: Marine includes both a rules tutorial (first 30 minutes of video) and a complete game playthrough (1 3/4 hrs) for your enlightenment and enjoyment. So, if you'd like to learn how to play Dominant Species: Marine, or just learn more about how real gameplay unfolds, check out Paul's video at the link below:



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New and Restocked Games from Cérigo (formerly Vae Victis).  We've recently received a new shipment of games from our friends at Cérigo Editions. The shipment includes four new games and three popular reprints back in stock. Don't let the fact that these games are sold in ziplock packs deter you; these are well-designed historical wargames. We have these in limited quantities (listed below). Get yours soon if you'd like a copy, as we almost always sell out of these quickly.

Three existing titles back in stock: (Click the links below for more info and to order)

Four new titles:  (Click the links below for more info and to order)


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An Interesting New Game from Richard Berg and the team at Kuro Neko Designs.  The Dragon and the Cross is Richard Berg's new game from our friends at Kuro Neko. It covers the Rise and Fall of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom from 1851-1868. It features a beautiful map and counters, as well as solid history on a period that we don't see many wargames cover. The copies we have in stock have rules in both Mandarin and English. We have 100 copies in stock, so get yours soon if you want one. Here's the link to the Game Page on our site for more info and to order: The Dragon and The Cross


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New Dice for Commands & Colors Medieval. We have a surprise for our C&C Medieval players: custom dice at no extra cost! Tony has found us some really nice custom dice for C&C Medieval to replace the planned stickered dice approach we've used in our other C&C games. They are 18mm, rounded corner, and laser printed. So no dice stickering this time! Here's a peek at the custom dice:



If you C&C fans like these dice as much as we anticipate, we'll work on making sets available as limited P500 items for our other C&C games in the near future.

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Upcoming Game Photography Workshop. For those of you attending the GMT Weekend at the Warehouse this coming weekend, please remember that professional photographer Scott Mansfield will be hosting a Photography workshop to help us all take better game photos at 1 pm on Saturday. Note, too, that Scott is planning to video the workshop so that we can make it available later online for those of you who can't attend the Weekend.

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Virtually every day, we announce new information, show off upcoming products, or give you a peek under the hood of our new designs in our various online sites and forums. For those of you looking to keep up with us online, here is where you can find us. Drop in and start a conversation!

GMT Games Website
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We are doing our best to segment this update so it's easier for you all to read. Here is what you'll find in the rest of today's update:

- P500 Additions
- News You Can Use
- InsideGMT
- Digital Games
- Charging and Shipping Update 
- Production Outlook
- Coming Events
- Project Updates and Sample Art 

 Thanks, as always, for your support of GMT Games! Enjoy the games! - Gene
Today's New P500 Additions
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                          The Barracks Emperors          Normandy '44             Space Empires 4X                                                                 (New on P500)                (P500 Reprint)                (P500 Reprint)  
                
Recent P500 Additions
                       
                    P500                   P500                   P500                 P500                   
          277 Orders          441 Orders          387 Orders        417 Orders         

New P500 Additions. We have one new P500 addition this month, as well as two game reprints and a new Mounted Map. To get more details on each of the items listed below or to Pre-order, just click on the banner or box to go to the game's P500 page.



 
The Barracks Emperors.  Here's a fast-playing strategy card game from the creators of Time of Crisis! This game is set in the same period as ToC - Rome's Imperial Crisis of the 3rd Century A.D. If you like the history of the Roman Empire or just want a family-friendly game you can play in a short evening, this game's for you! Just click the banner or this link to the P500 page for more info and to order.

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New P500 Reprint Additions. We are adding two new P500 Reprint items to our list this time.



Normandy '44, 3rd Printing. Designer Mark Simonitch's 19xx series of operational WWII games continues to be one of our most popular hex-and-counter wargame series.  If you don't have this one already, order now and help us get one of the best games in Mark's series back in stock.



Space Empires 4X, 4th Printing. Designer Jim Krohn's "Space Game for Wargamers" continues to be one of our best-sellers. We're sold out again, so we're adding a 4th Printing to our P500 Reprint list. This time, based on customer requests, it will come in a 3" deep box. (For those of you who own previous versions and want the 3" box, we're making one available separately via P500. See below.). If you want a great space wargame, check this one out!

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New P500 Mounted Map and 3" Box.


Based on popular demand, we are today adding a Normandy '44 Mounted Map option to P500. Note that the 3rd printing of the game will NOT contain a mounted map (neither of the other printings did, either). If you'd like one to upgrade your copy of the game, this option is for you!


Also based on numerous customer requests, we are today adding a 3" Box for Space Empires 4X option to P500. You don't need this if you're ordering the 4th Printing of the game via P500. But if you have an older version of the game and would like a deeper box to store components and trays, you now have that option.

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Here is a brief tease for P500 additions lining up in the coming months. Note that this is not a comprehensive list, so I will switch these up a bit from month to month. My previous hint of "A strategy card game with an ancients theme" referred to this month's new The Emperor's Barracks.  Over the coming several months, I anticipate that we will add:
  • A new WWI game by a designer with one GMT design already published.
  • An 18xx game set outside the US (rats, we almost had it ready for this month - hopefully May)
  • A new 20th century strategic game
  • An expansion for one of our CDGs
  • An expansion for one of our 2018 Best-sellers
Our Most Recent Releases
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New Series/Type on GMT Website for Mark Simonitch Operational WWII Games. Yesterday, we added a new Series/Type for Simonitch 1940s Wargames to our website.  You can now also place auto-orders for future P500 games from this series via the Auto-Order section in your My Account section on the GMT website.
 
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New Official GMT Games Facebook Group. Our official GMT Games Facebook Group now is a community of almost 3,000 gamers! If you have a Facebook account and you'd like to join our GMT Group to get the latest news, share game pics with other players, or just get your GMT-related questions answered, please go to https://www.facebook.com/groups/gmtgames/.

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Counter Trays are now Back in Stock!  We ordered 10K of them, but they're already going fast, so get yours soon if you want some. GMT Counter Trays (Set of 10)

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Card Decks for Empire of the Sun 3rd Printing. Several of you have asked if you can buy just the two card decks from the recent printing of Empire of the Sun. The answer is yes, while they last. We still have about 90 sets left in the warehouse. If you want a set, you can order them from our website, here.

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Play Hunt for Blackbeard today! Just click the link at left to download the files you need. Those linked downloads provide everything needed to play the game online with 2 players, using playtest versions of the rule book, play aid, map legend, and a VASSAL module by Francisco Colmenares.
 
When you open the VASSAL module, first go to the Help tab and read “Blackbeard Notes.” Then set up the Hunter pieces and Blackbeard’s Loot as described on page 3 of the Rules – Francisco has already set up the rest for you – and start the Sequence of Play on page 4.
 
Or we welcome you to print out the rules and play aid and just peruse them in conjunction with the examples of play that Volko provides in the InsideGMT articles linked from this webpage.
 
We hope you'll give Hunt for Blackbeard a try and let us know what you think of this innovative game!
 
"Not There Yet" P500 Games That Could Use More Orders
Thanks for your orders last month that got Red Winter: Expanded New Edition over the P500 mark!
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        487 Orders    483 Orders     441 Orders     417 Orders    391 Orders     387 Orders     382 Orders
 
 
Coming This Week in InsideGMT.
Here's an update from Rachel on this week's upcoming InsideGMT articles:

Lots of great content this week on InsideGMT!

First up this week on InsideGMT, we published the last in a series of articles from Dave Ratynski reflecting on his recent playtest of Tank Duel Scenario 2: Hold the High Ground using the solo rules (also referred to as Robata). We highly recommend checking this series out! You can find all of the previous parts of the series here.

On the blog today, we have a brief example of Fire Resolution in The Last Hundred Yards from designer Mike Denson. He has also written brief examples of Platoon Activation and Assault in The Last Hundred Yards in previous articles on InsideGMT. If you would like to read either of those articles, they can be found here and here. 

Tomorrow, you can look forward to seeing a fantastic article from blog contributor Kiki Esparrago discussing the significance of dice rolling probability in Hitlers Reich, so stay tuned!

Thursday on InsideGMT, you will see Part 6 of Francisco Colmenarez’s Normandy ’44 Campaign After Action Report. The previous five parts can be found here. If you are interested in learning more about Normandy ’44, this series is a great place to start.

Finally on Friday, we will be posting an article from developer Fred Schachter showcasing the diceless method used to resolve Competition (aka “Battles”) in Ancient Civilizations of the Inner Sea. If you are interested in learning more about this game, you can also check out the many other InsideGMT articles the design team has written here.

I invite you to visit InsideGMT.com this week to check out the aforementioned articles (and more!) from our team of excellent InsideGMT contributors.

-Rachel B
 


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This Past Month in InsideGMT!

Here are links to this month's new InsideGMT articles:

Apocalypse Road: The Essendarium – Part 11, The Final Chapter
Normandy ’44 Campaign AAR Part II: June 8th-10th
Manoeuvre: Distant Lands Tournament Part 4 of 4: France vs. Qing Dynasty
Tank Duel Scenario 2: Hold the High Ground – Round 7
A Brief Example of Platoon Activation in The Last Hundred Yards
King Louis, Prince Conti, Marshal De Saxe (or, “Neurosis, Petulance, Brilliance and Debauche”): Running the Biggest Dog on the Continent – French Strategy in Clash of Sovereigns
Normandy ’44 Campaign AAR Part III: June 11th-12th
The Gandhi Chronicles Issue #5: Playing the Congress in Gandhi — Operations and Special Activities
Tank Duel Scenario 2: Hold the High Ground – Round 8
Welcome to Centerville – Strategy Tips from ElusiveMeeple
General Eisenhower’s Armchair: How War Becomes a Game
Normandy ’44 Campaign AAR Part IV: June 13th-15th
FAB Crusader AAR: The Winter Battle of North Africa 1941 (Part 4)
Tank Duel Scenario 2: Hold the High Ground – Round 9
A Brief Example of Assault in The Last Hundred Yards
Secrets of the South Pacific – Part 1
Normandy ’44 Campaign AAR Part V: June 16th-18th
Enemies North, West, and South: Playing Maria Theresa in Clash of Sovereigns
Tank Duel Scenario 2: Hold the High Ground – Round 10
A Brief Example of Fire Resolution in The Last Hundred Yards


As always, I invite you all to head over to www.insidegmt.com, check out the articles, leave us your comments, and tell us what else you'd like to see us do to make InsideGMT even better! 
Most Requested P500 Games (by orders received through April 22)
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     3,046 Orders  1,925 Orders  1,614 Orders   1,477 Orders  1,451 Orders  1,431 Orders  1,406 Orders

     1,380 Orders  1,303 Orders  1,302 Orders  1,175 Orders  1,112 Orders  1,092 Orders    1,000 Orders
 
Shipping.  Our next P500 shipments will be shortly after May 10, when we'll start shipping these four items:

Commands & Colors: Medieval  
Fields of Fire Volume II: With the Old Breed 
Holland '44 Mounted Maps 
The Last Hundred Yards 

Then, shortly after May 20, we'll begin shipping Gandhi.
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Charging.  We will begin charging on Thursday, April 25th (one game per day) for these May shipments. 

Commands & Colors: Medieval  (5 lbs)
Fields of Fire Volume II: With the Old Breed (4 lbs)
Holland '44 Mounted Maps (2 lbs)
The Last Hundred Yards (3 lbs)

The next charge will be for Gandhi (5 lbs)., roughly May 8-10th.

For those of you calculating shipping charges for these games, I've included the weights we are using for shipping in parenthesis after each game title, above.  

To avoid any delays in your game shipment, please make sure you've updated your charge cards on our website before we charge. If you use the "Pay by Check" P500 option, please send your checks in by the above dates. Thanks!
All-Time Best-Sellers
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As noted previously, we're now giving you the status of a game inside our system in these updates, with a general estimate of what that means in terms of months until release. For very near-term games, those estimates are going to be very accurate. For the games just going into the art department or nearly there, we are giving you a range of times. Each month you will be able to follow progress as games get added and moved between pre-art, the art department, and the printer.

That said, here is our most current Tentative Production Schedule from Tony and Mark. Games with a ** following their entry are currently at the printer (we are a little more certain about scheduling on these). 

At the Printer: Tentative Arrival in the Warehouse by April 30:
Battle Line (Original Ancients Edition, Reprint)
2" Spine White Box ** (Back in stock)

At the Printer: Tentative Arrival in the Warehouse by May 10:
Commands & Colors: Medieval  **
Fields of Fire Volume II: With the Old Breed **
Holland '44 Mounted Maps **
The Last Hundred Yards **

At the Printer: Tentative Arrival in the Warehouse by May 20:
Gandhi **

At the Printer: Tentative Ship Date from the Printer April 30:
Peloponnesian War **

At the Printer: No Tentative Ship Date Yet
1862 **
Ancient Civilizations of the Inner Sea ** 
Death Valley: Battles for the Shenandoah **
Nevsky **
Red Storm **
Tank Duel **
Wing Leader: Victories, 2nd Edition **
Wing Leader: Victories 2nd Ed. Update Kit **
Wing Leader: Eagles **

In Final Art and Next to Get a Print Slot: Tentative Shipping approximately 3-4 months
4 CMBG
Battle Line: Medieval-Themed Edition
Commands & Colors Napoleonics, 4th Printing
Next War: Korea, 2nd Printing
Next War Supplement #2
Silent Victory
The Hunted 
The Hunters, 3rd Printing 

In the Art Department: Anticipated Shipping 5-9 months (will vary by speed of art completion, final edits, and proofing)
A Time for Trumpets
All Bridges Burning
Bayonets & Tomahawks 
Cataclysm Mounted Maps + 3" Box
Stalingrad '42
 
Nearing Art Department Readiness (some have a component or two - say a final map - with an artist now, but the whole project isn't yet in the art department)
Absolute War
Atlantic Chase
Barbarossa: Army Group Center, 2nd Edition
Cataphract, 2nd Printing
Combat Commander: Pacific, 2nd Printing
Combat Commander BP #1: Paratroops, 3rd Printing
Combat Commander BP #3: Normandy, 2nd Printing
Combat Commander BP #4: New Guinea, 2nd Printing
Combat Commander BP #5: Fall of the West, 2nd Printing
Dominant Species: Marine
Musket & Pike Dual Pack
Navajo Wars, Reprint Edition
The Battle of Rhode Island
Versailles 1919

There are quite a few games nearing Art Dept. Readiness, but these are the ones that Mark thinks are closest now. You'll see several of these move up and others added to this section each month.
Best-Sellers - January 1 to December 31, 2018 (Updated Quarterly)
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Spring 2019 GMT Weekend at the Warehouse - April 25-28, 2019

Come join us in April for 3 1/2 days of gaming fun! For those new to the event, this is mostly an open gaming event, although we do have tournaments from time to time. We expect about 125 gamers to attend, and space is limited, so please get your reservation in to the office ladies (call, chat, or email) as soon as possible. 



Click on the GMT Weekend at the Warehouse page on InsideGMT for more details, as well as a list of designers attending. 
 
Sneak Peeks: 
 
Here's a look at some final components for our games shipping in 2-3 weeks:   

Cover Pics for The Last Hundred Yards, Commands & Colors Medieval, and Fields of Fire 2: 



Components in Commands & Colors Medieval:



Components in Fields of Fire 2:



Components in The Last Hundred Yards:



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Design Updates: 
 
Tank Duel - Developer Jason Carr

 

Tank Duel is, for all intents and purposes, done. We handed off the Play Book to the very capable Charlie Kibler this week and expect to finish up the last bits of artwork with Terry Leeds very soon. Thank you to everyone who helped make Tank Duel a reality; we can't wait for you to have the game and get to play it. 
 
If you haven't seen Dave Ratynski's multi-part session report on his epic loss to Robata (the solo system), make sure to check it out. Dave did a great job and was a huge help to us in getting Robata just right and making the Play Book great.

Again, thanks to everyone who played Tank Duel at the warehouse, on Vassal, or through playtesting. We couldn't have done it without you! - Jason
 
Tank Duel Sample Card

Please see our RECENT ADDITIONS section of our website (bottom left of page) for a detailed list of new game support files, by the dates they were added.

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