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Hi everyone! 

Here at the GMT Warehouse, we just completed shipping our 2nd Fall batch of P500 games out to you (that's now 12 games shipped out since early October). As we prepare to ship NINE more titles in about two weeks (three new P500 games and six reprints), the office and warehouse is quiet now, as I gave everyone the Thanksgiving week off to rest and spend time with family. Looking back on what they have endured and accomplished over the past 18 months, they've certainly earned it.

So, don't worry if no one picks up the phone when you call or if your chat requests go unanswered this week. We're all fine. We're just having a short vacation this Thanksgiving week. The office folks will be back to work next Monday, November 29th, at 7 am Pacific time.

Before I go any further, I want to wish all of you who are celebrating Thanksgiving this week a peaceful and joyous holiday! I hope you all get to share good times with family and friends and maybe even play a game or two!

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Introducing Official GMT Merchandise! As I mentioned earlier this year, we have a GMT Merch Team that has been preparing an initial rollout of GMT-themed merchandise for you. The team has partnered with TeeSpring in order to create high-quality merchandise and keep all of the order fulfillment/shipping load off of our GMT office and warehouse folks (who have their hands full just shipping games!). Note that our GMT Merchandise store is located on the TeeSpring site, and ALL MERCHANDISE ORDERS AND FULFILLMENT ARE HANDLED BY TEESPRING, NOT BY GMT (so please don't try to order through or seek help from our office folks; they—for once—will have no idea how to help you).



The team is introducing GMT Merch to you this month with a limited selection of custom T-shirts, mugs, and stickers (posters coming soon). These feature game art or custom art from several of our artists and from the amazing Scott Mansfield, who takes all those beautiful photos of our games that you see on our website. Special thanks this month go to Luke Billingsley, Rachel Billingsley, Scott Mansfield, Mark Simonitch, and Terry Leeds, who all worked closely as part of the Merch team to bring you these initial items. The team's plan is to add to this mix—both in types of merchandise and games featured—on a monthly basis (as we have a LOT of games!). So we will have a note in each monthly update that lets you know about new Merch items that we're adding that month!

We appreciate your feedback on our poll earlier this year, and we have used it to create an interesting and very cool store full of high-quality GMT merchandise that will continue to grow. Below is a link to the new GMT Merch Store. We encourage you to check it out and add some GMT Merch items to your Christmas lists!

GMT Merchandise at TeeSpring!

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

I, Napoleon
Plantagenet, Cousins' War for England, 1459-1485 


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, we're going to give you TWO sneak peeks at the box backs for our upcoming Conquest & Consequence and Twilight Struggle: Red Sea. Enjoy!





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GMT One - Jason Carr. As we round out 2021 and head into the Holidays, it's amazing to see how much Solitaire gaming has continued to be at the front and center of many folks' minds this year. Whether by choice or by chance, many of us have had solo gaming sessions occupy the majority of our table time. While it's encouraging and exciting that many have been able to resume face-to-face gaming, solo gaming has always been a part of our hobby and will continue to be a major part going forward.

Two updates from the GMT One team this month:

First, on the Fields of Fire front, our rulebook team has made a lot of progress towards the third edition ruleset. We have recruited several very experienced players to help navigate the complexity of the rules, and the team spent a few months compiling a comprehensive list of all unanswered questions and clarifications needed, as well as finding all the rulings Ben has made on Boardgamegeek, Consimworld, Facebook, and in personal correspondence (as far as possible). Then, we turned those documents into lists of questions for Ben, which he is dutifully and carefully answering. The output from those documents will be used to flesh out and refine the third edition rules and the support documents which will include more information about how to get started with Fields of Fire.

Second, Ken Kuhn has been hard at work finalizing the materials for the CDG Solo System. This will go to the printer soon, and as promised, we will be releasing a print and play version of the system for anyone who wants to craft it. Stuka Joe's work in creating a community of gamers is not something that we wanted to co-opt, so it was important to us that GMT One gives this system back to the community that created it. Of course, I think the custom die and professionally printed playsheets are a great reason to buy the system (the fact that it is only $14 on P500 is another great reason!). Ken is already working on selecting the games that will go into the next set of playsheets, so please let us know if there's anything you would like to see...yes, C&C: Napoleonics is on the list!

Next month, we have a special surprise for you all, as a way of celebrating one year of GMT One! - Jason

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Mark Herman's Pacific War Unboxing Video. For those of you who have been eagerly awaiting the GMT version of Pacific War, Mark has his advance copy of the game and has recently posted an Unboxing Video—showing all the game's components—online. Check it out here!

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Out of Stock Reprints. One of the difficulties we've faced during the 2nd half of 2021 has been EIGHT of our Top Ten All-time Best-Selling games being sold out and unavailable for purchase during this time. And those aren't the only games sold out. One of the downsides of having our best-ever sales year in 2020 and great sales to start this year is that we sold out of a LOT of games, many of them either best-sellers or core games in a system that expansions relied on. Of course, the four-month hiatus in being able to get games shipped due to supply chain and shipping issues made this all worse for us, until early October.

As you can see from the shipments in October and November, and from the composition of the P500 games shipping out in our next batch in December, we're addressing this problem as quickly as we can by getting plenty of those out of stock games to the printer in addition to new P500s. But it's going to take a little time to get them all back in stock because neither print slots nor excess cash reserves are unlimited.

We just want you to know—ESPECIALLY for those games that are core games in a series upon which other products depend—that we're going to do our best to make sure that we get those games back in stock by the time the next games/expansions in their series are available. We may have to print them concurrently with the expansions, but we'll do everything we can to make sure that those core games like SpaceCorp (which should be back in stock next month), The Last Hundred Yards, Tank Duel, Fire in the Lake, and Combat Commander: Europe are back in stock by the time we print the next expansions or games in the series that would depend on the base game for components or rules.

Thanks for your patience as we restock both best-sellers and core series games over the coming year.

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Into the Woods Components Sneak Peak. Here's a look at the components in our upcoming Into the Woods: The Battle of Shiloh, by designer Dick Whitaker. Enjoy!



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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! ------------
An Illustrated Preview of Conquest & Consequence! For those of you who are looking forward to designer Craig Besinque's Conquest & Consequence (a Pacific-theater follow-on to Triumph & Tragedy), I want to point you to a most excellent preview article in InsideGMT by the game's developer, Simon Macdonald. It's filled with full-color photos of the game's final components as well as plenty of information about game play. If you are at all interested in this game that should be shipping out to you in the December batch, we invite you to check out Simon's Preview article.



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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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Check out this Cutting-Edge VASSAL Module from Brian Reynolds! The brilliant Brian Reynolds has again created something awesome for fans of GMT Games, especially for those who like Volko's Levy and Campaign series. Brian's newest creation is a VASSAL module for Volko's upcoming Almoravid (set to ship to customers in January). The module will be available to the public in January as the game ships, but Volko was so impressed by how automated and user-friendly Brian made this module that he wrote a detailed sneak peek preview for all of you on InsideGMT. Check that out when you get a chance. In the meantime, here are a couple of screenshots from Brian's module:

Operational Map Action

Battle Display

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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
(Click on box image to go to P500 page for more info and to order.)
 
             
                                                                                                                          I, Napoleon                Plantagenet: Cousins'               A Distant Plain 
                                                 War for England, 1459-1485            4th Printing
                 (New on P500)                  (New on P500)                     (New on P500)                       
                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                  
Recent P500 Additions:

                 349 Orders       250 Orders       329 Orders      594 Orders       486 Orders       648 Orders       332 Orders                 
                        729 Orders       896 Orders      415 Orders       752 Orders      846 Orders      498 Orders       967 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! 

I really enjoy historical games that give me at least some "you are there" roleplaying flavor. This first P500 addition for November is a new game from Ted Raicer that does this in spades! Ted has created an innovative new solo boardgame that uses cards, history, and a lot of cool choices to immerse you into the life of "Captain Bonaparte" and the story of France starting in 1793 (or later, if you choose to begin play as First Consul or as Emperor). With multiple scenarios and all kinds of variable branches and endings, this eminently replayable game allows you to experience France through the eyes of an ambitious young officer who may become one of the greatest European field generals in history.

In I, Napoleon, the choices you make combine with the cards you are dealt to determine success or failure. You will have to manage politics, military campaigns, diplomacy, and the domestic well-being of the French while pursuing the Glory that lures you on. You will also have to manage your family, your wives, your mistresses, and your children, legitimate and otherwise. It's all in there! I didn't realize it until Ted first told me about the design, but this is the solitaire game about Napoleon that I've been waiting to play! Enjoy!

Click the link or the banner below for more details.

I, Napoleon

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Our second new P500 addition today is the newest game in Volko's Levy & Campaign series. Usually, "a new game in one of Volko's series" is enough for me, but this time it's a game about the War of the Roses! I love this description from the P500 page - which tells me just about all I need to know to be certain I'm going to really enjoy Plantagenet.

"In Plantagenet—the newest volume in Volko Ruhnke's Levy & Campaign Series—players lead one of the two factions across the three main periods of war, as individual scenarios or the entire Wars of the Roses.

Designer Francisco Gradaille adds overall and local political influence to Volko’s medieval operation system to reflect the ever-changing loyalties of the time while keeping play familiar to fans of the Series. Players will create and maintain a network of allied lords and nobles in order to obtain the provender and coin needed to supply and pay their armies. As ravaging and looting will damage each side’s reputation, each faction will strive to convince cites to join its side. Great battles will seek to kill or capture enemy lords—perhaps even a king. Two kinds of operational moves will be in play: the military and the political.

In the end, when the dust settles and all arrows have flown, one rose will sit on the throne. White or Red, York or Lancaster, gather your troops and banners and join the fight."

 Click the banner below for more details!


Plantagenet: Cousins' War for England, 1459-1485 

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New P500 Reprint Additions. 


A Distant Plain, 4th Printing

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

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P500 Removals. It's clear from the long drought in P500 orders for Roads to Leningrad, 2nd Printing that there just isn't much demand for this game from our customers. So we have let Vance know that we are immediately removing it from our P500 Reprint list. We now have no plans to reprint this game. We're happy to work with Vance and other companies to help him find a good fit to get the game reprinted with another publisher.

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Here is a brief tease for P500 additions lining up in the coming months. This month's new I, Napoleon is the game referred to in last month's clue of "A Napoleonic-themed game from Ted Raicer," and Plantagenet was teased last month as "Another new Levy & Campaign series game." 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 tactical air game from a favorite designer
  • New COIN content related to Fire in the Lake
  • A smaller, faster-playing game in the Levy & Campaign series
  • A big surprise for Combat Commander players
  • A new solitaire co-design involving Jerry White
Yearly Best-Sellers October 1, 2020 to September 30, 2021 (Updated Quarterly)
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The War Room at Dice Tower West: Mar 2-6, 2022

Are you headed to Dice Tower West (Las Vegas, NV) in March 2022? Attendance at Dice Tower West gives all badgeholders access to The War Room: a new and exclusive gaming space featuring 5 full days of teaching, demoing, and exploring historical board- and wargames. GMT Games is proud to be a sponsor and supporter of The War Room. We’ve teamed up with the organizers and instructors from the SDHistCon team and the Wargame Bootcamp to make this gaming space a big hit with both veteran wargamers and newcomers as well (watch our recent livestream with both of these teams!). GMT sees The War Room as the perfect opportunity to reach out to everyone with an interest in historical boardgaming, and we have high hopes that even more new players will be starting their journey along with us. If this sounds good to you, please come to Dice Tower West and visit us in The War Room; I’ll be there along with several GMT designers and developers teaching, demoing, and playing lots of wargames. Registration is still open, but badges are selling out quickly. Be sure and grab one while you can!

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Save the Date for GMT East. April 1-3, 2022 in White Plains, NY. From Andy Lewis: "GMT East - The plan is to be back in 2022. The dates are April 1 to 3 with some space available on the evening of the 31st as usual. The hotel is now a Sonesta, but it’s still the same building and rooms as we’ve had in the past. To be on the safe side, we’re not opening pre-reg until the middle of January. Hope to see you all back again, and newcomers are welcome."
 
Not getting these updates via email (anymore)? If you didn't get this update via email but would like to, here's a quick-and-easy link to sign up for our mailing list. GMT Mailing List Sign-up. Please feel free to pass this along to friends or anyone online who wants/needs to get this update via email.

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Low Stock on Games from Vae Victis in the Warehouse. We're getting low on those two new VV games in our warehouse. We have about 50 copies left of Three Days of Glory and about 30 copies of Typhoon Over the Pacific. 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 Alan's most recent "What Was Stalin Thinking" article about the game's Stalin bot. 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. 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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Vassal Ladder Tournament for Combat Commander! There is also an excellent Vassal Ladder Tournament for Combat Commander! They start new games each month and new players are welcome. If you’d like more information or to join the ladder, either visit the BGG thread or contact Patrick Pence via email (add a subject of "CC Ladder" please). Check out online play of one of our best-selling games 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 9,800 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 Cross Bronx Expressway Make the Cut!
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  498 Orders      486 Orders      479 Orders      424 Orders     415 Orders      390 Orders      387 Orders 
             
  350 Orders      342 Orders      332 Orders      331 Orders      298 Orders      273 Orders     250 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 Monday, we published a fantastic article from designer Paul Daniels walking you through a simple example of combat in Bear Trap. He also discusses how combat in Bear Trap is similar and different from Sekigahara. You can read Brian's article here.

Today on InsideGMT, we have a development update from Congress of Vienna designer Frank Esparrago. In this article, Frank presents the updated playtest map and discusses the changes the team has made to it over the last few months. If you would like to read today's Congress of Vienna development update on InsideGMT, you can find that here.

We are not publishing articles on InsideGMT for the rest of the week due to the Thanksgiving holiday, but I invite you to visit InsideGMT.com or follow the links below to read last month's fantastic content from our team of excellent InsideGMT contributors.

Have a great week and to those who celebrate, Happy Thanksgiving!
-Rachel B

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This Past Month in InsideGMT!

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

Cross Bronx Expressway: Positioning Players in the Bronx

“No Plan Survives Contact”: Playing Labyrinth: The Awakening (Part 3)

Graphical Timeline for Flashpoint: South China Sea

The Last Hundred Yards Ladder Play After Action Report: Mission 5.0 — Counterattack at Hatten

Caesar vs. Pompey as Depicted by Commands & Colors: Ancients

The Factions of Plum Island (or … What Futility Personified Looks Like)

When Did WWII Start? Germans in The Bell of Treason

The Last Hundred Yards Ladder Play After Action Report: Mission 7.0 — The Sickle

Victory Conditions in Baltic Empires

“No Plan Survives Contact”: Playing Labyrinth: The Awakening (Part 4)

The Last Hundred Yards Ladder Play After Action Report: Mission 6.0 — Tiger in the Pen

The Plum Island Horror: Pigout

Almoravid Vassal Module in Action

A Congress of Vienna Option: Adding Tactical Flavor to Battles (A Tactical Battle Matrix) Part 1 of 2

Conquest and Consequence Developer Preview

The Sequence of Play in Baltic Empires

Resolving Combat in Bear Trap

Congress of Vienna November 2021 Development Update: Gameboard Narrative


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 Nov. 22)
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     2,621 Orders    2,532 Orders    2,205 Orders    2,002 Orders    1,868 Orders    1,846 Orders    1,781 Orders
 
                
     1,721 Orders     1,680 Orders   1,490 Orders    1,324 Orders   1,308 Orders     1,253 Orders    1,245 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 November 1 and are now finished with these P500 shipments.

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)

Future Charges: We plan to charge for the nine games below (3 New Games and 6 Reprints) on Monday, November 29.
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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 9/30/21 - 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.

Finished P500 Shipments
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 Sea: Approaching Port
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
Almoravid
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 This Week 
CDG Solo System
Churchill, 3rd Printing
Empire of the Sun, 4th Printing
Fields of Fire: The Bulge Campaign
Red Storm: Baltic Approaches

In Final Art and Next to Get a Print Slot
C&C Ancients Expansion #5, 2nd Printing
Charioteer
Fall of Saigon: A Fire in the Lake Expansion
Flashpoint: South China Sea
Great Battles of Julius Caesar, Deluxe Edition
Mr. President: The American Presidency, 2001-2020
Norway 1940: A PQ-17 Expansion
Paths of Glory Deluxe, 2nd Printing
No Retreat: The Russian Front Deluxe, 3rd Printing
No Retreat 2: The North African Front, 3rd Edition
Update Kit for No Retreat 2
Red Dust Rebellion
Skies Above the Reich, 2nd Printing
The Russian Campaign: Deluxe 5th Edition
The Russian Campaign Mounted Mapboards(2)
 
Nearing Art Dept. Readiness (some have components with an artist now, but the whole project isn't yet in the art department)
1833NE
Battle of White Plains
China's War
 
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.
Shout Out to You Online Content Creators Who Review and Support Our Games.
Thank You!!!
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Note: If you have a blog or review site that reviews or adds content for one or more of our games, send a link to your article or video to gmtgamesmarketing@gmail.com and we'll make sure you are mentioned on our website and in our monthly updates.
 
Sneak Peeks:


Box Cover for Charioteer (from Kurt Miller)


 
Final Board Art for 18 India Sans Company Icons



 
Sample Images and Components for Twilight Struggle: Red Sea  (from Terry Leeds)



 
A new sample counter for The Plum Island Horror (from Terry Leeds)
Final Card Display for the CDG Solo System


 
Maps for Charioteer (from Domhnall Hegarty) - Note: this is both maps together


 
More Sample Art from  Red Dust Rebellion Cards


Gandhi Sharma

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Project Updates



Congress of Vienna: The Congress of Vienna team has a large update today, which because it's just too big for this newsletter we are publishing instead in InsideGMT. Here's the link to the CoV team's November 2021 Development Update.

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Joe Dewhurst – Development Update
 
I was developer on not one but two new games that went to P500 last month—Bear Trap and Baltic Empires—so I have been busy working with both designers to prepare the games for wider testing, which will hopefully begin next month.

My preferred approach to development involves first working closely with the designer to ensure that the core model presented by their game does justice to its historical topic and captures their vision for the design, as well as checking for clarity, consistency, and any obvious mechanical issues. At this stage we might also begin testing the game with a focused group of dedicated players, but only after resolving these initial issues do we open up the game for wider testing. This means that when most playtesters first see the game, it will already be relatively polished, although they will inevitably find further issues and ask all kinds of questions that would never have even occurred to me or the designer. Finally, we will also review all of the materials again after testing, with a fresh set of proof-readers, in order to catch any remaining errors.

My hope is that by adopting this three-stage approach to development, we can do a thorough job of not only producing a mechanically-sound and thematically-engaging game but also avoid having to give too many additional clarifications or explanations once the game is released (as we will have essentially ‘simulated’ this release experience with the second round of wider testing). This is only possible due to the hard work of our volunteer testers at all stages of development, so many thanks to all of you—and look out for news about testing Bear Trap and Baltic Dominance in next month’s update! - 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: 1,244 Orders (+22) AT THE PRINTER
Barbarossa: AG Center 2nd Ed: 1,044 Orders (+46) AT THE PRINTER
Barbarossa: AGN: 950 Orders(+8)
Barbarossa: AGS - 839 Orders (+11)
France '40, 2nd Printing: 826 Orders (+19)
Empire of the Sun, 4th Printing: 804 Orders (+38) IN FINAL ART
Churchill, 3rd Printing: 800 Orders (+17) IN FINAL ART
Red Winter: Expanded 2nd Edition: 793 Orders (+14) NEARING ART DEPT READINESS
Triumph & Tragedy, 3rd Printing: 720 Orders (+15) AT SEA

Pursuit of Glory, 2nd Edition: 687 Orders (+7) NEARING ART DEPT READINESS
C&C Ancients Expansion 5: Epic Ancients: 665 Orders (+9) IN FINAL ART
Liberty or Death, 3rd Printing: 560 Orders (+29)
Great Battles of Alexander, Expanded Deluxe Ed, 2nd Printing: 521 Orders (+18)
Virgin Queen, 2nd Printing: 518 Orders (+11)

Fire in the Lake, 3rd Printing: 477 Orders (+30)
Next War: Poland, 2nd Edition: 441 Orders (+14)
Next War: Taiwan, 2nd Printing: 432 Orders (+34)
Comancheria, 2nd Printing: 421 Orders (+9)
Unconditional Surrender, 3rd Printing: 416 Orders (+20)
For the People, 4th Printing: 405 Orders (+11)
Hoplite, 2nd Printing: 395 Orders (+7)
Fields of Despair, 2nd Printing: 346 Orders (+1)
Combat Commander: Resistance, 2nd Printing: 341 Orders (+7)
Paths of Glory, Deluxe Edition, 2nd Printing: 327 Orders (+35) IN FINAL ART
Cuba Libre, 4th Printing: 315 Orders (+18)
Skies Above the Reich, 2nd Printing: 310 Orders (+7) IN THE ART DEPT.
Washington's War, 3rd Printing: 310 Orders (+9)
Combat Commander: Mediterranean, 3rd Printing 309 Orders (+7)

Enemy Coast Ahead: The Dambusters, 2nd Printing: 282 (+0)
SpaceCorp, 2nd Printing: 281 Orders (+22) AT SEA
Labyrinth, The Awakening, 2nd Printing: 260 Orders (+10)
C&C Ancients, 7th Printing: 244 Orders (+5) AT SEA
No Retreat, The Russian Front Deluxe, 3rd Printing: 226 Orders (+5) IN THE ART DEPT
Here I Stand, 500th Anniversary Edition, 2nd Printing: 224 Orders (+20)
This Accursed Civil War: 224 Orders (+1)
Turn Zero Expansion, 3rd Printing: 222 Orders (+8)
Sword of Rome, 3rd Printing: 215 Orders (+9)
Thunder Alley, Crew Chief Expansion, 2nd Printing: 200 Orders (+4) NEARING ART DEPT READINESS

Atlantic Chase, 2nd Printing: 198 Orders (+198)
The Last Hundred Yards, 2nd Printing: 194 Orders (+20)
WW2: Barbarossa to Berlin, 3rd Printing: 192 Orders (+0)
C&C Ancients, Exp #6, 2nd Printing: 169 Orders (+2)
No Retreat 2: The North African Front, 3rd Edition: 162 Orders (+5) IN THE ART DEPT 
Holland '44, 2nd Printing: 160 Orders (+11)
Twilight Struggle Deluxe Edition, 8th Printing: 148 Orders (+30) AT SEA
C&C Medieval, 2nd Printing: 136 Orders (+6)
Dominant Species, 6th Printing: 121 Orders (+16) AT SEA
Chariots of Fire, 2nd Printing: 113 Orders (+113)
Talon, 3rd Printing: 112 Orders (+3)
C&C Napoleonics, Austria Exp, 3rd Printing: 104 Orders (+13)
Manoeuvre, 3rd Printing: 101 Orders (+2) NEARING ART DEPT READINESS
Combat Commander: Europe, 5th Printing: 100 Orders (+2)

C&C Napoleonics, Russia Exp, 4th Printing: 91 Orders (+8)
Battle Line, 11th Printing: 83 Orders (+19) AT SEA
Peloponnesian War, 2nd Printing: 82 Orders (+14)
Cataclysm, 2nd Printing: 73 Orders (+0)
Tank Duel, 2nd Printing: 64 Orders (+14)
Dominant Species Marine, 2nd Printing: 52 Orders (+11)
A Distant Plain, 4th 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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