GMT P500 for September 2011
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Welcome to the Setpember 2011 edition of the GMT P500 update list.
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September has arrived. Labour Day weekend is upon us as is the return of kids to school. I don't know if this means more time for gaming or not, but what I do know is that the fine folks at GMT have not been idle as they have announced four new titles! They're the first four items in the list this month, so you can see for yourself what's up. One expansion, one deluxe treatment of another VPG game, one solitaire game, and one monster game.
While I was away on vacation the last two weeks of August, I received a nice large parcel with my copies of No Retreat! The Russian Front, Sekigahara: Unification of Japan, Space Empires: 4X and Infidel. I am simply stunned at the production values in those four games. Seriously. Never mind playing the games, I like just having them set up on my table to look at!
As if that weren't enough, GMT has also announced some news on its electronic games development front. Check out the details at the GMT Games home page.
On another note, I've noticed a real surge in popularity of Kickstarter board game projects. I like to think it's thanks to the wargame companies with their P500 systems that designers are doing that.
I'd like to ask the people to thumb this list every month when they come by. It makes me feel appreciated, and hey, who doesn't like to feel appreciated?
Thanks to everyone for their continued kinds words of support of this monthly geeklist and also for your helpful suggestions.
If you do have any comments or suggestions, please do send me a geekmail message or post in the comments section.
New this month: Four new titles! Circus Train (deluxe), Manoeuvre: Distant Lands, Navajo Wars, and The Battle for Sicily.
Making the cut: Four games this month, Andean Abyss, Fading Glory, Roads to Moscow, and Saints in Armor.
Rising Stars
+81 Fading Glory (mounted boards!)
+59 Virgin Queen
+58 Mr. Madison's War
Shipping/charging news: Nothing in September. Then...
Early October, 2011:
Labyrinth 2011 Reprint
Twilight Struggle Reprint
Urban Sprawl
Late October, 2011:
Combat Commander: Resistance
Late November/Early December, 2011:
Commands & Colors: Ancients: The Spartans
Commands & Colors Napoleonics: The Spanish Army
December, 2011:
FAB: Sicily
1st Quarter, 2012:
Battle for Normandy Expansion Pack
Bomber Command
Crown of Roses
Dominant Species: The Card Game
Virgin Queen
1989
2nd Quarter, 2012: (Tentative, probably only 3-4 of these)
Bloody April, 1917
Next War: Korea
Several More - from among the "Made the Cut" games that are in the 500s on the GMT website
Unscheduled for Now:
Great Campaigns of the Thirty Years War
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Current Preorders: 673 (+38)
First announced: April 2011
Current Status: Made the cut
Preorder Price (List Price): $19 ($29)
Number of Players: 2-6
Comments: Another solid month. Should be easily into the 750 range by Christmas and possibly over 800 by the time it gets to print.
Game Link: http://www.gmtgames.com/p-342-dominant-species-the-card-game...
Game Information: 40,000 B.C. — A great ice age is ending. Another titanic struggle for global supremacy has unwittingly commenced between the animal species.
Dominant Species: The Card Game is a fast-playing game that abstractly recreates a tiny portion of ancient history: the ponderous rescinding of an ice age and what that entails for the living creatures trying to adapt to the slowly-changing earth.
Players will use six major animal classes – mammal, reptile, bird, amphibian, arachnid or insect – to further their goals in various terrain. Through wily card play, players will strive to become dominant at as many different terrestrial and sea biomes as possible in order to claim valuable victory points: It is survival of the fittest.
All of this leads to the end game – the final descent of the ice age – where the player having accumulated the most victory points wins the game.
But somebody better become dominant quickly, because it’s getting mighty warm...
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Current Preorders: 765 (+7)
First announced: June 2008
Current Status: Made the cut.
Preorder Price (List Price): $55 ($79)
Number of Players: 2-4
Comments: A nice bump in orders in what's been a quiet few months on this one.
Game Link: http://gmtgames.com/p-234-crown-of-roses.aspx
Game Information: Crown of Roses is a 3-hour block game set during the turbulent years of the Wars of the Roses in 15th Century England. This 35-year long conflict saw the extinction of a large number of noble houses, and would eventually set the house of Tudor upon the throne.
In Crown of Roses, players take on the roles of the dynastic giants - the House of Lancaster and their Beaufort cousins, and the House of York. The four player game adds in the powerful House of Stafford, and the ever-scheming Richard Neville and his son, Richard of Warwick, the 'Kingmaker'.
Game Design: Stephen A. Cuyler
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Current Preorders: 827 (+18)
First announced: October 2010
Current Status: Made the cut
Number of Players: 2
Preorder Price (List Price): $37 ($50)
Comments: Nice solid gain this month.
Game Link: http://gmtgames.com/p-328-commands-colors-napoleonics-expans...
Game Information: The Spanish Army is the first expansion for Commands & Colors: Napoleonics.
At the time of the Napoleonic Wars, Spain was only a shadow of its former power. Spanish troops and leaders, as many Napoleonic historians point out, performed badly on a large number of occasions. Yet there are a number of battles, Bailen, Tamames, Alcaniz and San Marcial where the Spaniards fought valiantly and gained victory. Ironically, the point most historians overlook is the fact that the Spanish armies constituted a threat that the French simply could not ignore. As good as Wellington’s Anglo-Portuguese field army was, that army faced multiple French armies. They could only defeat one French army at a time. The Spanish Armies and the accompanying guerrilla warfare against French troops tied down the remainder, allowing the Anglo-Portuguese army to ultimately emerge victorious.
In this expansion you will find 18 historical scenarios that focus on Peninsular battles fought by the Spanish army from 1808 to 1813, plus all the new units you’ll need to field for these engagements.
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Current Preorders: 829 (+35)
First announced: November 2009
Current Status: Made the cut
Preorder Price (List Price): $49 ($70)
Game Link: http://gmtgames.com/p-296-urban-sprawl.aspx
Complexity: Not listed
Solitaire Suitability: Not listed
Number of Players: 2-4
Comments: Now over 800 orders and should be hitting game tables in time for the holidays.
Game Information: Urban Sprawl is a game for 2-4 players. Urban Sprawl abstractly models the growth of a town into a teeming metropolis.
Players assume the roles of entrepreneur, tycoon and politician—each helping in the development of a hypothetical “Anywhere, USA.” Wealth and Prestige will be earned and spent throughout the game. Buildings will rise only to later be demolished for better and larger fare.
Throughout the game, players will gather valuable Permits. These will result in either a wealthy Investment or the foundation of a new building Contract. Players will strive to become dominant in one or more building Zones in order to acquire beneficial political offices.
All of this eventually leads to the end game – a vibrant metropolis that is revered around the world – when the player with the most Prestige will be crowned the winner.
Game Design by Chad Jensen
Game Development by Kai Jensen
Players: 2-4
Play Time: about 45 minutes per player
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Current Preorders: 849 (+26)
First announced: December 2010
Current Status: Made the cut
Preorder Price (List Price): $35 ($55)
Number of Players: 2
Comments: Has passed the C&C Nappy expansion is and opening up the gap.
Game Link: http://gmtgames.com/p-331-c-c-ancients-exp-6-the-spartan-arm...
Game Information: We are Sparta… More than a line from a movie, The Spartan Army is the sixth expansion for the Commands & Colors: Ancients game system.
The Spartan Army expansion features over 20 scenarios, which focus on a period of time from 669 BC to 338 BC. In the early battles of Sparta against Argive, we see the development of Hoplite armies. We then move onto the war with the Persian Empire and take a closer look at the battle of Thermopylae, 480 BC. During the Peloponnesian Wars, Sparta takes a leader position among the Peloponnesian states, which would last for almost two centuries. Finally there is a shift in power away from Sparta during the battles of the Theban Era and the rise of Macedon.
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Current Preorders: 893 (+15)
First announced: March 2010
Current Status: Made the cut
Preorder Price (List Price): $45 ($65)
Number of Players: 2
Comments: Call me crazy, but I think this one has the potential to hit 1000 orders before production.
Game Link: http://gmtgames.com/p-304-1989.aspx
This is actually Twilight Struggle's graphic, but since 1989 is based on TS, this is a handy placeholder
Game Information:
1989 is an exciting, fast paced game simulating the end of the Cold War in 1989. During this amazing year, a series of democratic revolutions ended the 40 year Soviet empire in Eastern Europe. 1989 simulates the political, social and economic aspects of these revolutions using a card driven system similar to Twilight Struggle.
Components:
1 countersheet
1 22" x 34" map
1 rulebook (approx 24 pages)
2 player aid cards
2 strategy decks (110 cards)
1 Power struggle deck (55 cards)
Designer: Ted Torgerson and Jason Matthews
Developer: Bruce Wigdor
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Current Preorders: 912 (+15)
First announced: October 2010
Current Status: Made the cut!
Preorder Price (List Price): $38 ($59)
Number of Players: 2
Comments: Back to double digit growth.
Game Link: http://www.gmtgames.com/p-316-the-battle-for-normandy-expans...
Game Information: This Expansion Set for The Battle for Normandy allows players to extend the campaign game to the end of August, but most importantly includes the area for the Mortain and Falaise Pocket scenarios.
Counters are included to fill out Allied and Axis Order of Battles to the end of August, and also include specific breakdown counters for AT, SP AT, and mechanized infantry.
The Full Color Rules & Scenario books are updated and comprehensive, and include all original rules and scenarios plus all optional rules, and 6 new scenarios.
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Current Preorders: 920 (+7)
First announced: -
Current Status: Made the cut.
Preorder Price (List Price): $38 ($55)
Number of Players: 2
Comments: This remains the highest pre-order game without a firm production slot.
Game Link: http://gmtgames.com/p-41-great-campaigns-of-the-thirty-years...
Complexity: Not listed
Solitaire Suitability: Not listed
Game Information: Great Campaigns of the Thirty Years War (GCo30YW) is a two-player game of operational warfare in the 17th Century. Armies maneuver on a point to point map of Southern Germany based on the road network available at the time. Each game is centered around a major battle or full campaign season. A Turn is a month divided into a variable number of impulses. Each army has a hand of Campaign Cards that control the amount of activity it may perform, the supplies it must expend, and a special action. Each impulse features one card play per army. Forces are concealed off map so players are faced with limited knowledge of the enemy. The major activities are maneuver, foraging, besieging fortifications, and an occasional battle. GCo30YW is a low-complexity game with emphasis on the players maneuvering their forces, but many decisions await. The low rules complexity allows each player, rather than being encumbered with rules, to focus on choices regarding how to manage his campaign.
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Current Preorders: 935 (+21)
First announced: November 2010
Current Status: Made the cut
Preorder Price (List Price): $35 ($55)
Number of Players: 2
Comments: Chad has posted the playbook for Resistance in the files section here on BGG. Check it out!
Game Link: http://gmtgames.com/p-329-combat-commander-resistance.aspx
Game Information: Combat Commander: Resistance! (CC:R) expands upon CC:Europe and CC:Mediterranean by adding partisans and their war behind the front lines. This fourth volume of the Combat Commander series features special rules and components for fighting with Partisan forces against the Axis nations of Europe.
The new CC:R playbook covers the following:
* Random Scenario Generator Update, including the Partisan Leader Table and Fortification OB
* Definition of the Partisan Faction, its Unit Structure, Stats and Weapons
* Rules for Irregular Melee, Sewers and Sighting Markers
* New Orders: Infiltrate and Muster
* New Actions: Knife, No Quarter and Trap
* New Events: Inexperience, Patriotism and Stealth
In addition to the new playbook, the game includes 3 back-printed game maps (6 maps total), 6 double-sided scenario sheets (12 scenarios total), one counter sheet (units and markers), a 36-card Partisan Fate Deck and a 19-card Partisan Force Deck. The new maps depict specific historical locations in Greece, Hercegovina, Eastern Bosnia, Byelorussia, Croatia and Western Bosnia.
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Current Preorders: 1029 (+59)
First announced: April 2011
Current Status: Made the cut
Preorder Price (List Price): $59 ($89)
Number of Players: 2-6
Comments: This game is king queen of the hill as the only one with 1000+ orders at the moment.
I don't have enough superlatives to speak about my excitement over the announcement of this game. I knew it was in development, but that it's finally going to see light of day is simply outstanding to me. Based on what I've read of the game so far, I might even like this one more than Here I Stand, which is a game I simply love.
Of course, this game is another one of those which has a very long playing time. Notwithstanding this however, it's on my personal P500 list. There are some games that one simply must have, and this is a must for me.
Game Link: http://www.gmtgames.com/p-341-virgin-queen.aspx
Game Information: Virgin Queen: Wars of Religion 1559-1598 is a game of grand strategy for two to six players based on the military, political and religious conflicts within Europe during the reigns of Elizabeth I of England and Philip II of Spain. Each player controls one or more of the major powers that presided over European politics in that day. Spain is the juggernaut, able to draw upon the vast riches of their global empire. But such a dominant power is sure to have many enemies. The Ottoman expansion towards Spain’s Mediterranean outposts remains unchecked. Elizabeth’s English sea dogs are poised to raid Spain’s overseas empire. And the forces of Protestant reform will soon drag Spain into eighty years of rebellion in the Netherlands. Will Spain find aid from its Catholic allies? Perhaps not from France, where the Catholic Valois dynasty is soon to engage another group of Protestant believers in the bloody French Wars of Religion. And even Philip’s relatives in Vienna who rule the Holy Roman Empire may dabble in the Protestant faith instead of remaining loyal to their Catholic heritage and Spanish brethren.
Designer: Ed Beach
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