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Hi everyone! 

We just completed a tremendously fun (and exhausting) Weekend at the Warehouse here last weekend. We had about 110 attendees this time (I tried to cap it at 100, but I just couldn't say no to a few more folks who wanted to come). There were about 30 new attendees this time, along with lots of folks who've been to the event many times. I'm always excited by seeing first-timers' being welcomed and involved in playing so many games and of course I also find great joy in playing games and catching up again with longtime friends and veterans of the Weekend at the Warehouse.

For the first time in our history of the Weekend's 39 events, we used our covered outside space for something other than parking. We brought in a bunch of extra tables and chairs and used the large outdoor area as a mixed snack and "take a break without your masks" venue, and even - because the weather all four days was AWESOME - had quite a few groups playing their games outdoors. And on Saturday we met outside for my "Inside GMT" presentation, designer updates, and Q&A time. Then later for dinner, we brought in a mobile kitchen from one of my personal favorite local restaurants and used the space for 3 hours of all-you-can-eat street tacos! The feedback we got on using the outdoor space that way was overwhelmingly positive, so we're already planning to make similar use of it at future Weekends, as weather permits.


                                                 Photos courtesy of Scott Mansfield and Tim Porter

Even with having to wear masks inside, it seemed like everyone really enjoyed the event. And it was just SO GREAT to see so many long-time friends and online friends we had not yet met face-to-face and first-time attendees and get to play games and hang out together for four days! So many people commented over the weekend "I really needed this." I think we all did. Amidst the stress of our lives and the varying stages of isolation - for many of us - over the past 18 months, this Weekend at the Warehouse was an oasis of fun and friendship. I needed it, too. Thanks to all of you who attended! You made my week - and probably my year! I hope you all found much joy and relaxation and fun with old and new friends at the Weekend. I can't wait until we do this again in April!

I want to be sure to publicly thank Elizabeth, our Office Manager, and all of our office and warehouse staff for everything they did to make this Weekend at the Warehouse so successful. They transformed and deep cleaned our warehouse, set up a brand new outdoor space, arranged all the details of tables, chairs, snacks, and venue layout, spending dozens of extra hours in the process. And during the weekend, they worked a lot of overtime to make sure they could be on-hand to help with any attendee needs or requests and to keep the space clean, free of trash, and sanitized (no small feat with 100+ attendees). And Saturday they assisted a bunch of our customers with buying games, finding old or obscure accessory items, updating P500 orders, then later worked all the details of dinner with the caterers and oversaw the entire process. They were (and ARE) amazing! So, to Elizabeth and the whole team: Thank you all so much for the extra hours and preparation you put into this Weekend and for your constant willingness to help me and our customers before and during the event. You were the glue that held it all together and we all appreciate you! You are the best! Thank you!

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Supply Chain and Shipping Status. We continue to make progress on this front. We just began shipping the first six games that have arrived from the printer. We'll have another charge and shipment of six more games in early November. See the Charging/Shipping section below for details.

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New P500s. As part of this month's update, we are adding three new P500 games:

Baltic Empires
Bear Trap
The Last Hundred Yards Volume 4: The Russian Front

Please check out the "New P500 Additions" section below for more details on these games.

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This Month's Box Back Sneak Peek. This month, here's a peek at the box back for our upcoming Red Storm: Baltic Approaches. Enjoy!



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GMT One - Jason Carr. 2021 continues to fly by, and GMT One continues to be hard at work. This month, we have a GMT One product shipping out to you - Tank Duel North Africa and Tank Pack #1! The Robata solo opponent is waiting for you, with new challenges in the sun and heat of the desert. In these expansions, every one of the new Scenarios supports Robata (11 from North Africa and 6 from the Tank Pack). That includes the 11 Historical Scenarios split between these two games. This was a major goal of the project - 100% Robata compatibility - and we really hope you enjoy the games.

This month we spent a good deal of time testing the Twilight Struggle Red Sea Solo Opponent. This system is loosely based on the exceptional system in Shores of Tripoli, designed by Kevin Bertram at Fort Circle Games. He was gracious enough to allow us to riff on his work, so with some input from Jason Matthews we have been tuning the bot. Right now it is particularly vulnerable to the Africa Scoring auto-win condition, so GMT One developer Joe Dewhurst and I are working to shore up the logic in the space selection. The Solo Opponent in TR:RS is also heavily indebted to the work done by Adam Zahm for the Labyrinth series, and fans of that game will find this system intuitive.

It's hard to believe that GMT One is almost a year old - last December, Gene and I were planning how to roll out our little skunkworks project. There are many GMT One projects in flight - Vijayanagara, The Weimar Republic, The Bell of Treason, Prime Minister, People Power, and many, many more. Stay tuned - there's much more to come. - Jason

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Playtesters/Help Wanted! On an ongoing basis, I'll use this section to let you know which of our design teams currently need extra testers. If you are interested in helping out, please contact the team members for the game you are interested in at the links below. We greatly appreciate you helping us test our games and make them better! Thank you! ------------
Counter Trays are Back in Stock! Get them while they last! Order here:
GMT Counter Trays (Sets of 10)

Also, for those of you who like to order those 2" and 3" big sturdy game boxes, those are back in stock as well:
2" Deep Heavy Duty White Game Box
3" Deep Heavy Duty White Game Box

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Interview with Paul Hellyer, Designer of Prime Minister. The Spanish-language gaming blog Mesa de Guerra recently posted an excellent interview with Paul Hellyer about his game Prime Minister: And, because sometimes the internet IS very cool, when you visit the interview site, there's an auto-translation to English, for all of us who are a bit "Spanish-language challenged." Enjoy! https://mesadeguerra.com/entrevista-paul-hellyer-prime-minister/ 

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Keep up with GMT Online
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
InsideGMT blog
Official GMT Games Facebook Group
GMT Facebook Page
GMT Twitter Feed
GMT on Instagram
GMT on BoardGameGeek
GMT YouTube Channel
GMT on ConsimWorld

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

Thanks, as always, for your support of GMT Games! Enjoy the games! - Gene
Today's New P500 Additions
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                                                                                                                     Baltic Empires                        Bear Trap           TLHY Vol 4: The Russian Front                              (New on P500)                     (New on P500)                    (New on P500)                
       
                                                                         
                              Atlantic Chase, 2nd Printing    Chariots of Fire, 2nd Printing
                                                (P500 Reprint)                       (P500 Reprint) 
                                                                                                                                                  
Recent P500 Additions:

                        489 Orders       384 Orders       602 Orders      292 Orders       693 Orders      852 Orders       361 Orders                 
                         720 Orders       813 Orders      465 Orders       933 Orders      682 Orders      916 Orders       621 Orders          

New P500 Additions. We have three exciting new games to add to our P500 list this time, as well as two P500 Reprints that we want to get back in stock! 

The first is a new game that doesn't have any series affiliation for us, which means that it might tend to get overlooked a bit. I want to encourage you NOT to overlook this game. Why? First off, the design/development team - Brian Asklev, Fred Serval, and Joe Dewhurst - is a bunch of really smart guys with deep knowledge of the period this game represents, who also have experience working in our systems. The have combined their talents to create a real gem in this strategy game covering a century and a half of Northern European conflicts. Here are a few things I really like:
  • It's a big strategic game with a simple but pretty deep economic system built in. Since my early years of counting BRPs in Third Reich, I have loved games where what you can do on the map is a function of how well you command your economy.
  • The (up to) five sides in any scenario are asymmetric - they all have unique abilities and objectives. Volko and his COIN series have forever spoiled me when it comes to the virtues of games that portray asymmetries between factions. So I can't wait to learn about how that plays out in the Baltic region in the late 16th to early 18th centuries.
  • They have Dramatis Personae cards! I don't know that much about this region or fhe world during this period, and I like to use new games like this as a base from which to read and explore further to expand my understanding. I love that there are cards for key people in the era - most of whom I don't know anything about right now. Here's a playtest version of a few:
             

 Click the link or the banner below for more details.

Baltic Empires: The Northern Wars of 1588-1721

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Our second new P500 addition today is also not a series game per se. However, it does use much of the popular game system from Matt Calkin's popular Sekigahara design, so those of you who have played that game already know many of the mechanics used in this one.

In Bear Trap, designer P.R. Daniels uses and enhances the Seigahara system to create a beautiful portrayal of the strengths and weakness of the sides during the decade-long Soviet-Afghan War.

Bear Trap  is certainly not a "clone" of Sekigahara—they are very different games with differences in topic, feel, and mechanism, despite having an underlying shared game system - including the "loyalty" aspects of the system that players so enjoy (well, unless it's YOUR troops who were disloyal). Befitting the strengths and tactics of the combatants in this war, Bear Trap is also a more asymmetric game than Sekigahara. Although Bear Trap is a slight step up in complexity from Sekigahara, the mechanics remain simple.  For those of you concerned about long playing times, Bear Trap can be completed in 2-3 hours.

We also have a strong and reliable team on this one. Bear Trap is a game that Andy Lewis, well known for his keen eye for promising games, brought to us after the designer showed it to Andy some time ago. The game is being developed by Joe Dewhurst, who we expect, based on what we've seen from Joe on other projects, will work with the designer and their testers to polish this design even further before it lands on our game tables.

 Click the banner below for more details!


Bear Trap: The Soviet-Afghan War, 1979-1989

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Our final new P500 addition today is Volume 4 in Mike Denson's popular series, The Last Hundred Yards. Thus far in his series, Mike's innovative WWII tactical combat system has transported us from Western Europe to the far-flung islands of the Pacific. We've fought with US Army and Airborne troops against the Germans in their race across towards Germany. And we've hit the beaches and cleared Pacific islands as US Marines in vicious close-quarters engagements against the soldiers of Imperial Japan.

In Volume 4 of his series, Mike takes us to Mother Russia. LHY: The Russian Front covers major campaigns and missions from the second half of the war in the east, introducing the Russian army to the series for the first time. A series of missions simulates actions from the October 1943 fighting in the Ukraine near Krivoi Rog, while others feature fights during the Russian 1944 summer offensive, Operation Bagration. All major Russian armor from late 1942 onward is covered, plus some additional late war German armored vehicles.

Mike and his team of testers and artists have proven that they can deliver the goods when it comes to engaging, exciting, challenging, and just plain fun WWII tactical combat games. We expect more of the same - with some tactical twists as he introduces the Russians - in LHY: The Russian Front.

 Click the banner below for more details!


The Last Hundred Yards Volume 4: The Russian Front

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New P500 Reprint Additions. 


Atlantic Chase, 2nd Printing



Chariots of Fire, 2nd Printing

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P500 Expansions/Upgrades/Mounted Maps. None this time.

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P500 Removals. None this time.

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Here is a brief tease for P500 additions lining up in the coming months. This month's new Baltic Empires is the game referred to in last month's brilliant and insightful clue of "A game set in the Baltic," and Bear Trap was previewed in August as "A new game using the Sekigahara system." Note that this is not a comprehensive list (nor will I preview EVERY game we have planned), so I will switch these up a bit from month to month. Over the coming 1-6 months, I anticipate that we will add:

  • A new Bot Project for a COIN-series game
  • Exciting new content for you Commands & Colors players
  • A Napoleonic-themed game from Ted Raicer
  • Another new Levy & Campaign series game
  • A new operational-level WWII game from Mark Simonitch
Yearly Best-Sellers July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2021 (Updated Quarterly)
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SDHistCon FALL 2021 – Online Convention Nov 12-14, 2021 

SDHistCon’s FALL 2021 convention will be held Nov 12-14, 2021 and will be feature-packed with over 100 events including full play sessions, game demos, exclusive product sneak-peeks, seminars and interviews. Many of your favorite GMT designers – including several new to the GMT team – will be teaching their games and providing guided play sessions all 3 days.

In additional to designers-emeritus such as Mark Herman, Volko Ruhnke and Mark Miklos, you’ll also see developer Joe Dewhurst showcasing The British Way, newcomer Petr Mojzis demo’ing The Bell of Treason, as well as the elusive Non-Breaking Space discussing his much-anticipated Cross Bronx Expressway. And one of our favorite boardgaming ambassadors, Candice M. Harris, will be teaching and guiding players through a special session of Versailles 1919 where participants can win a copy of the game. Yours truly will also be getting in the act! I will be personally hosting a GMT Games gala event we’re calling “Inside GMT Night”, and for good reason. We’ll be bringing you exclusive designer input about their games as well as an “inside” look at what’s in GMT Games’ future (there will be prizes, too)!

Finally, SDHistCon will be the first convention to feature many of the games we’ve all been hearing so much about from the Zenobia Award, a diversity-inspired board game design contest for promising designers from oft-marginalized and underrepresented groups. You’ll get a chance to play Akar Bharadvaj’s Tyranny of Blood (1st Place Winner), a game about the Indian Caste System under British Colonialism. Alison Collins’ Wañay Kawsay (3rd Place Winner) gives us an introspective look at how our perceptions of history are formed and Winter Rabbit by Will Thompson (2nd Place Winner) lets us explore a pre-Columbian Cherokee economic system based on reciprocity and community need rather than supply and demand. Even more of the Zenobia Award’s finalists and their games will be featured at SDHistCon FALL 2021 and they are all worth engaging with!

Tickets are already on sale at the SDHistCon convention site, so grab your badges and join us. You can also follow @SDHistCon on Twitter for the most up-to-date information about the convention. As always, on behalf of the GMT Games team, I look forward to seeing you all there, Nov 12-14, 2021!
 
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New Games from Vae Victis in the Warehouse. We have two new VV games in the warehouse that are now available to order. As usual, we have a limited amount of these games, so get yours soon if you want one.


Three Days of Glory - Three Tactical-level 1805 Battles
Typhoon Over the Pacific - Strategic-level WWII in the Pacific

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Frank Chadwick's ETO Series Update. For you fans and players of Frank's ETO series, here is a link to the team's recent Consimworld Expo Update. Enjoy!



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Twilight Struggle Acryllic Counters. Last year, we partnered with our friends at BGG to create a beautiful set of durable plastic (acryllic) counters for Twilight Struggle. We now have about 500 remaining sets of these in stock that we are offering to our customers for $40 each + shipping (2 lbs). If you'd like a really nice set of counters that look great and should last for hundreds of games of Twilight Struggle, get one of these sets while they last!


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Watch it Played Tutorial: How to Play1960: The Making of the President. Rodney's latest teaching video on a GMT game is out, and this one is for Jason and Christian's 1960: The Making of the President. If you want to learn this game (or as several veteran players have already commented, learn it BETTER), check out the video here: Watch it Played: How to Play 1960: The Making of the President. Also, Rodney previously created a terrific "How to Play" video for Sekigahara, designed by Matt Calkins; we highly recommend it if you want to learn that game.

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Vassal Ladder Tournament for The Last Hundred Yards. There is now a Vassal Ladder Tournament for The Last Hundred Yards! The Vassal Ladder is a monthly matchup of players competing using the Vassal Software (usually live but occasionally by email). There is no experience required to join the Ladder! In fact, it’s a great place to learn the game, hone your skills, and meet some great friends and skilled players from around the world! If you’d like more information or to join the ladder, contact Mark Buetow via email. Check it out to really get into this great game of tactical WWII combat!

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Find Opponents on GMT's Discord Server (Managed by Mitchell Land and Joel Toppen). We’d like to take this opportunity to remind you that GMT maintains a Discord server which can be used to facilitate both finding an opponent and playing with that opponent using voice communication. To keep SPAMmers and BOTs out of the server, you need to contact either Mitchell Land (webmaster@gmtgames.com) or Joel Toppen (joel_m_toppen@msn.com) for a Discord invite. Enjoy the gaming and stay safe!

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COIN Series Discord Player's Club. For you COIN series players, check this out!
https://discord.com/invite/3nBMzpB

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The Last Hundred Yards Facebook Group. Designer Mike Denson runs an excellent Facebook Group that supports one of our fastest-growing series of games, The Last Hundred Yards. Check it out here: The Last Hundred Yards Facebook Group

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Fields of Fire Bootcamp. For those of you looking to learn—or just get more prolific with—Ben Hull's Fields of Fire series, check out this excellent website devoted to the game: Fields of Fire Bootcamp.

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Dedicated Wing Leader Website. For you Wing Leader fans, be sure to check out Lee's Designer Website for Wing Leader for extra files and news about the series.

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Official GMT Games Facebook Group. Our official GMT Games Facebook Group now is a community of over 9,400 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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Facebook Reivers and Reformers Group.
For you fans of Ed Beach's games, feel free to join Ed's Reivers and Reformers Facebook Group. There you'll find discussion, testing, and inside info about the follow games:

Here I Stand (P500 Reprint)
Virgin Queen (P500 Reprint)
Border Reivers (P500)
Tanto Monta: The Rise of Ferdinand and Isabella (P500 - Developed by Ed; designed by Carlos Diaz Narvaez)

Click here to go to the Group

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Facebook COIN Group. For those of you on Facebook who like our COIN series games, check out the GMT COIN Series Fan & Vassal Play group, run by Daniel Hernández Iniesta. It’s a great place to share COIN discussions, photos, and fun.
"Not There Yet" P500 Items That Could Use More Orders
Thanks for your orders this past month that helped Virgin Queen, 2nd Printing and Great Battles of Alexander, Expanded Deluxe Ed, 2nd Printing Make the Cut!
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  489 Orders      474 Orders      465 Orders      416 Orders      387 Orders      386 Orders      384 Orders 
            
  361 Orders      336 Orders      295 Orders      292 Orders      285 Orders      259 Orders    

Click this link to check out Playdek's cache of Digital Labyrinth Interviews and Trailers!

Digital Versions of our Games from Playdek
 
Labyrinth, designed by Volko Ruhnke. Expansions designed by Trevor Bender:


Steam Early Access (for Mac and PC )

Twilight Struggle, designed by Jason Matthews and Ananda Gupta:

Steam (for Mac and PC)
iOS
Android

Mark Herman's Fort Sumter:

Steam (for Mac and PC)
iOS
Android
Coming This Week on InsideGMT!
 
Here's an update from Rachel on this week's upcoming InsideGMT articles:

Lots of great stuff this week on InsideGMT! 

First up on Tuesday, we published another special piece of The Plum Island Horror narrative fiction from David Spangler. In this article, you will find another excerpt from David's Beware the Shade: Where Horrors Hide in the Daylight, an explosive exposé currently under a government restraining order, forbidding its publication for containing “material damaging to national security.” Please note that this short story is a work of fiction and is not an example of gameplay. Enjoy!

Wednesday on InsideGMT, we cross-posted a fantastic article from Clio's Board Games assessing Winston Churchill through the lens of Mark Herman's Churchill. This article is part two in Clio's Prime Minister Ratings series, so if you would like to read part one discussing Robert Walpole through the lens of Imperial Struggle, you can find that here. 

The first InsideGMT article we posted on Thursday, written by Per Svennson, was the fourth in a series of The Last Hundred Yards After Action Report articles written by players participating in The Last Hundred Yards ladder play on BGG. You can find the first three articles in this series here. If you would like to participate in the LHY ladder play, please contact Mark Buetow through the LHY Facebook page or on BGG.

Also on Thursday of this week, we published a great article from Robert Baynosa introducing to the InsideGMT audience an optional variant for event card play using the Hitler's Reich AI Axis bot. Go check it out if you're interested!

Last but certainly not least, today on InsideGMT we published the the fifth and final article in a series from Stephen Rangazas, designer of The British Way, GMT's first COIN Series Multi-Pack. In this article, Stephen discusses The British Way: Cyprus, one of the four games in the multi-pack. If you would like to read the previous four articles in Stephen's series, you can find those 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:

The British Way: Malaya
“No Plan Survives Contact”: Playing Labyrinth: The Awakening (Part 1)
18 India: Mitigating Randomness (Part 1)
The Last Hundred Yards Ladder Play After Action Report: Mission 9 — A Tough Nut to Crack
Cross Bronx Expressway: Modeling History Through City-Building
The Last Hundred Yards Ladder Play After Action Report: Mission 24.0 — All for a Piece of Dirt
The British Way: Kenya
“No Plan Survives Contact”: Playing Labyrinth: The Awakening (Part 2)
18 India: Mitigating Randomness (Part 2)
The Last Hundred Yards Ladder Play After Action Report: Mission 13.0 — Bridge 10
War or Diplomacy? The Struggle Between the Wargamer vs Eurogamer Soul in the Design and Development of Congress of Vienna
The Plum Island Horror: Roasted
Winston Churchill Through the Lens of Mark Herman’s Churchill
The Last Hundred Yards Ladder Play After Action Report: Mission 8 — Black Cat Blues
Playing Hitler’s Reich Solo: A Suggested Variant
The British Way: Cyprus


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 Oct. 20)
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     2,558 Orders    2,490 Orders    2,154 Orders    1,965 Orders    1,864 Orders    1,826 Orders    1,725 Orders
 
                
     1,720 Orders     1,641 Orders   1,482 Orders    1,307 Orders   1,287 Orders     1,234 Orders    1,210 Orders
 
Charging and Shipping. Here's a look at our current and near-future charging and shipping:

Current Charges/Shipments: We charged for the following games on October 8 and are just beginning to ship them today.

Absolute War (4 lbs)
MBT, 2nd Printing (4 lbs)
Normandy '44, 3rd Printing (3 lbs)
Future Charges: We plan to charge for the six games below on Monday, November 1.

1848: Australia (4 lbs)
Panzer, 3rd Printing (4 lbs)
Panzer Exp 1, 2nd Printing (3 lbs)
Panzer Exp 2, 2nd Printing (3 lbs)
Panzer Exp 3, 2nd Printing (4 lbs)
Wing Leader Supremacy, 2nd Edition Update Kit (2 lbs)

We plan to ship these six items somewhere in the November 5-10 timeframe.
 
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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 to arrive by the charge dates. Thanks!
All-Time Best-Sellers (as of 6/30/21 - Updated Quarterly)
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Here is our most current Production Status update from Tony and Mark. We update these monthly so that you will be able to follow progress as games get added and moved between pre-art, the art department, and the printer. Games with a ** following their entry are currently at the printer (we are a little more certain about scheduling on these). Entries listed in bold have moved in the Print Queue since last month.

Note that we are still experiencing a slowdown - although it seems to be improving for us - in deliveries due to west coast port congestion and delays. The information below has been adjusted in light of this.

At the Warehouse: Shipping Beginning Now
Absolute War
MBT, 2nd Printing
Normandy '44, 3rd Printing
Tank Duel Expansion 1: North Africa
Tank Duel Tank Pack #1
Wing Leader Supremacy, 2nd Edition

At the Warehouse: Shipping Next - Roughly Nov. 5-10
1848: Australia
Panzer, 3rd Printing
Panzer Exp 1, 2nd Printing
Panzer Exp 2, 2nd Printing
Panzer Exp 3, 2nd Printing
Wing Leader Supremacy, 2nd Edition Update Kit
 
At the Printer: Loading to Ship
Almoravid
Battle Line, 11th Printing
C&C Ancients, 7th Printing
Conquest and Consequence
Dominant Species, 6th Printing
Red Flag Over Paris
SpaceCorp, 2nd Printing
At the Printer: No Ship Date Yet
Barbarossa: Army Group Center, 2nd Edition
Into the Woods
Pacific War
Plains Indian Wars
Salerno '43
Salerno '43 Mounted Map  
Next Up: Going to the Printer in November 
CDG Solo System
Fall of Saigon: A Fire in the Lake Expansion
Flashpoint: South China Sea
Great Battles of Julius Caesar, Deluxe Edition
Red Storm: Baltic Approaches

In Final Art and Next to Get a Print Slot
C&C Ancients Expansion #5, 2nd Printing
Charioteer
Churchill, 3rd Printing
Empire of the Sun, 4th Printing
Fields of Fire: The Bulge Campaign
Mr. President: The American Presidency, 2001-2020
Norway 1940: A PQ-17 Expansion
Paths of Glory Deluxe, 2nd Printing
 
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.
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Sneak Peeks:

Box Cover for Banish the Snakes




Sample Maps for Banish All Their Fears






Box Cover for Red Storm: Baltic Approaches




More Sample Art from Red Dust Rebellion Cards


The Aldrin Cycler


A Green New Deal

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Project Updates: 

Mons 1914 - Designer Geoffrey Phipps



Work continues on polishing following yet another playtest at Consimworld Expo in September. I am adjusting the contour colors to separate them a bit more, improving the way divisional affiliation is depicted on artillery counters, and making other small usability improvements. Plus catching some errata.

We played the four-player Meeting Engagement scenario, which led to an interesting series of tactical puzzles around the bridges.  Close fighting in the willow beds was tricky – small hills became critical vantage points for artillery and Machine Guns.  



The image above shows a typical fight in the willow beds. Both armies were rushing into the bridge road column, and are now attempting to deploy, a task made difficult by artillery sitting on hills overlooking the wetlands. The column heads have taken losses, as have the Germans attempting to take the critical British bridge. - Geoff

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Mr. President - Designer Gene Billingsley



As I mentioned last month, we are in the midst of the "Final Development and Testing" phase on Mr. President, with plenty of "near-final" art already completed.

At our Weekend at the Warehouse this past weekend, Rachel lead several "testing, demo, and cooperative play" sessions for most of the day on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. I helped with a few of the sessions and also ran a shorter similar session on Sunday morning. We got a lot of great feedback. It was gratifying to see how many folks really liked the depth of the game and its immersive story, and we really appreciated having many more critical eyes to help us catch any errors in the rules and charts. Thanks to all of you who sat down and learned, played, and helped us find those final nits to fix before production! I hope you enjoyed the experience!
 
Rachel and Jerry are teaming up to take on the world's problems

We are now working through our list of edits and fixes based on our testing last weekend. Thankfully, it is a MUCH shorter list than the one we compiled from Tempe in late August. That's progress! So we're tightening the rulebook, working on making sure there are chart location references every place in the game where it refers a player to check a particular chart, and doing a big of final balance tweaking to the game.

That last part - the balance tweaking - is SO HARD in a game with this many moving parts. It's difficult to make a tweak to improve one aspect of the game without accidentally causing an issue somewhere else. But we're getting there. And I have to say, at this point, regardless of how many customers buy it or like it, I am REALLY ENJOYING playing it, even after all these years. Mr. President is now the game I wanted it to be. Hopefully that will translate into many of our customers enjoying it, too. - Gene

Just when you think that the Middle East or Africa - or maybe Central/South Asia - are the most unstable regions, the Mr President world conspires - with unexpected cards and chart results and a gradual increase in problems that we noticed too late because we had our resources focused elsewhere - to create a big, fat mess in Central America!  Terror Groups and Rogue States and Civil Wars, OH MY! We had fun trying to clean up THIS ONE!

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Next War Poland, 2nd Edition and Next War Supplement #3 - Designer Mitchell Land

     

Artwork has begun on the counters for Next War: Poland, 2nd Edition (NWP2E) and Supplement #3: (NWSS3). These are being done together as NWSS3 is serving as an update kit for the first edition of NWP. Part of that means ensuring that all the changed counters are on a single sheet which can be included in both products. Once we're happy with the counters, we'll start finalizing the map and Game Specific Rules changes as well as all the new additions and optional items being included in the Supplement. - Mitch


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Panzer North Africa - Designer James M. Day

I've had a number of requests from customers to provide a complete list of the British, German, and Italian vehicles included in the game. Here's a comprehensive list. - Jim 

 
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Joe Dewhurst – Development Update
It’s been a relatively quiet month, but testing has continued for the The Bell of Treason, and we are currently refining a few aspects of the game to really bring to life the dilemmas facing the Czechoslovak people in 1938. The designer Petr Mojžíš will be showcasing the game in two online demos at SDHistCon in November, so I’d highly recommend attending one of those if you’d like to learn more about the game. I will also be making an appearance at SDHistCon with an online demo of The British Way: Cyprus, and the designers of A Gest of Robin Hood, Vijayanagara, and Cross Bronx Expressway will each be demoing their games as well. You can register to attend SDHistCon here: http://sdhist.com

Jason has otherwise been keeping me busy testing, designing, and developing various solo modes, not just for COIN but also for other games like Twilight Struggle: Red Sea. Solo design is always tricky, as you need to balance ease of use for the player with presenting not only a competitive challenge but also a good narrative experience. In multiplayer asymmetric games like People Power, we even need the solo opponents to sometimes cooperate with the player, as the game is balanced under the assumption that two of the factions (Reformers and NPA) will work together, at least some of the time, to take down the dominant Government faction. My initial design for this solo mode has proved to be a little too challenging for the player, and so I am currently working on dialing that down to present a more satisfying narrative experience. This month will also see me begin development work on the newly announced Bear Trap, which will feature a custom solo mode allowing you to play either side against an automated opponent. Look out for more info on that in a future update or InsideGMT article! - Joe Dewhurst, Staff Developer
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Here's the current status of all the games on our P500 reprint list - with current order totals and a +/- order growth since last month, with status to the right if they are AT THE PRINTER. IN THE ART DEPT, or NEARING ART DEPT READINESS. Please help us determine what to reprint by pre-ordering any of these that interest you. Thanks for your help!

The US Civil War, 2nd Printing: 1,222 Orders (+38) AT THE PRINTER
Barbarossa: AG Center 2nd Ed: 998 Orders (+32) AT THE PRINTER
Normandy '44, 3rd Printing: 961 Orders (+41) SHIPPING NOW
Barbarossa: AGN: 942 Orders(+10)
Barbarossa: AGS - 828 Orders (+13)
France '40, 2nd Printing: 807 Orders (+3)
Churchill, 3rd Printing: 783 Orders (+17) IN FINAL ART
Red Winter: Expanded 2nd Edition: 779 Orders (+5) NEARING ART DEPT READINESS
Empire of the Sun, 4th Printing: 766 Orders (+32) IN FINAL ART
Triumph & Tragedy, 3rd Printing: 705 Orders (+10) AT THE PRINTER: LOADING TO SHIP

Pursuit of Glory, 2nd Edition: 680 Orders (+9) NEARING ART DEPT READINESS
C&C Ancients Expansion 5: Epic Ancients: 656 Orders (+8) IN FINAL ART
Liberty or Death, 3rd Printing: 531 Orders (+7)
Virgin Queen, 2nd Printing: 507 Orders (+17)
Great Battles of Alexander, Expanded Deluxe Ed, 2nd Printing: 503 Orders (+23)

Fire in the Lake, 3rd Printing: 447 Orders (+50)
Next War: Poland, 2nd Edition: 427 Orders (+13)
Comancheria, 2nd Printing: 412 Orders (+23)
Next War: Taiwan, 2nd Printing: 398 Orders (+27)
Unconditional Surrender, 3rd Printing: 396 Orders (+8)
For the People, 4th Printing: 394 Orders (+7)
Hoplite, 2nd Printing: 388 Orders (+7)
Panzer Exp #1: The Shape of Battle, East Front, 2nd Printing: 360 Orders (-5) AT THE WAREHOUSE: SHIPPING NOVEMBER
Panzer, 3rd Printing: 348 Orders (+1) AT THE WAREHOUSE: SHIPPING NOVEMBER
Fields of Despair, 2nd Printing: 345 Orders (-1)
Combat Commander: Resistance, 2nd Printing: 334 Orders (+2)
Skies Above the Reich, 2nd Printing: 303 Orders (+5) IN THE ART DEPT.
Combat Commander: Mediterranean, 3rd Printing 302 Orders (+5)
Washington's War, 3rd Printing: 301 Orders (+5)

Cuba Libre, 4th Printing: 297 Orders (+33)
Paths of Glory, Deluxe Edition, 2nd Printing: 292 Orders (+19) IN FINAL ART
Enemy Coast Ahead: The Dambusters, 2nd Printing: 282 (+3)
Panzer Expansion 2: Final Forces on the E. Front, 2nd Printing: 278 Orders (+0) AT THE WAREHOUSE: SHIPPING NOVEMBER
SpaceCorp, 2nd Printing: 259 Orders (+18) AT THE PRINTER: LOADING TO SHIP
Labyrinth, The Awakening, 2nd Printing: 250 Orders (+19)
MBT, 2nd Printing: 243 Orders (+12) SHIPPING NOW
C&C Ancients, 7th Printing: 239 Orders (+21) AT THE PRINTER: LOADING TO SHIP
Roads to Leningrad 2nd Ed. 232 Orders (+4)
This Accursed Civil War: 223 Orders (+0)
No Retreat, The Russian Front Deluxe, 3rd Printing: 221 Orders (+1) IN THE ART DEPT
Turn Zero Expansion, 3rd Printing: 214 Orders (+9)
Sword of Rome, 3rd Printing: 206 Orders (+7)
Here I Stand, 500th Anniversary Edition, 2nd Printing: 204 Orders (+15)

Thunder Alley, Crew Chief Expansion, 2nd Printing: 196 Orders (+5) NEARING ART DEPT READINESS
Panzer Expansion #3, 2nd Printing: 187 Orders (-1) AT THE WAREHOUSE: SHIPPING NOVEMBER
WW2: Barbarossa to Berlin, 3rd Printing: 192 Orders (+6)
The Last Hundred Yards, 2nd Printing: 174 Orders (+14)
C&C Ancients, Exp #6, 2nd Printing: 167 Orders (+10)
No Retreat, North Africa, 3rd Edition: 157 Orders (-2) IN THE ART DEPT 
Holland '44, 2nd Printing: 149 Orders (+19)
Wing Leader:Supremacy, 2nd Edition: 148 Orders (+18) SHIPPING NOW
C&C Medieval, 2nd Printing: 130 Orders (+9)
Twilight Struggle Deluxe Edition, 8th Printing: 118 Orders (+26) AT THE PRINTER: LOADING TO SHIP
Talon, 3rd Printing: 109 Orders (+2)
Dominant Species, 6th Printing: 105 Orders (+5) AT THE PRINTER

Manoeuvre, 3rd Printing: 99 Orders (-1) NEARING ART DEPT READINESS
Combat Commander: Europe, 5th Printing: 98 Orders (+11)
C&C Napoleonics, Austria Exp, 3rd Printing: 91 Orders (+7)
C&C Napoleonics, Russia Exp, 4th Printing: 83 Orders (+8)
Cataclysm, 2nd Printing: 73 Orders (+8)
Peloponnesian War, 2nd Printing: 68 Orders (+7)
Battle Line, 11th Printing: 64 Orders (+13) AT THE PRINTER: LOADING TO SHIP
Tank Duel, 2nd Printing: 50 Orders (+9)
Dominant Species Marine, 2nd Printing: 41 Orders (+2) AT THE PRINTER: LOADING TO SHIP
Atlantic Chase, 2nd Printing: New to List
Chariots of Fire, 2nd Printing: New to List

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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