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WBC 2016
By Fred Manzo I heard that WBC is moving from Lancaster, Pennsylvania to Silver Springs, Pennsylvania next year. Silver Springs is 70 miles southeast of Pittsburg and was picked to draw in the Ohio
Read More »WBC is Finally Here !
By Fred Manzo Well it’s finally time to head off to the Lancaster Host hotel. This is the final year that the World Boardgaming Championships (WBC) will be held in Lancaster, so the guys
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New “Hammerin’ Sickles: Longstreet Attacks at Gettysburg” cover released.
By Fred Manzo Things are heating up for Hermann Luttmann’s “Hammerin’ Sickles: Longstreet Attacks at Gettysburg.” First, it blew through the P500 line at GMT going from 477 to 514 in less than
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“Hammerin’ Sickles: Longstreet Attacks at Gettysburg” Made the Cut at GMT
By Fred Manzo Wow. After waiting years our game Hammerin’ Sickles: Longstreet Attacks at Gettysburg sprinted across the GMT P500 finish line tonight. Due to the kind help of John Kranz at Consimworld, who posted
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Rumors spread that the Fall-In, Cold Wars and Historicon Miniatures conventions will move.
By Fred Manzo Over the last week I’ve heard an interesting rumor that the Historical Miniatures Gaming Society (HMGS) is seriously considering the re-location of a number of their conventions. Fall-In and Cold Wars
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An After-Action-Report of GMT’s “At Any Cost: Metz 1870” ( Part I )
By Fred Manzo Hermann Luttmann and I ran through a play-test of “At Any Cost: Metz 1870” this afternoon. The Mars-La-Tour scenario is coming along just fine. I’m happy to report the system is
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Stonewall’s Sword from Revolution Games on the “Inside GMT” Blog
By Roger Miller When Hermann Luttmann said he finally had a design to submit to Revolution Games I was excited, as I had been trying to get him to design a game using the
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The World Boardgaming Championships (WBC) 2015 are almost here !
By Fred Manzo The World Boardgaming Championships (WBC) are almost here, with the main convention scheduled to run from August 3rd through August 9th. However, there is a “pre-convention” that starts on August 1st (for
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Origins 2015
By Fred Manzo Well we are off to the Origins Game Fair 2015 tomorrow. We’ll be there through Sunday. Origins isn’t what it use to be. For example: there are almost no wargames to
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