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GMT Games
GMT Games is a California-based wargaming publisher founded in 1990. The company has become well known for graphically attractive games that range from "monster games", of many maps and counters, to quite simple games suitable for introducing new players to wargaming. They also produce card games and family games. The current management and creative team includes Tony Curtis, Rodger MacGowan, Mark Simonitch, and Andy Lewis. History GMT's name comes from the first name initials of founders Gene Billingsley, Mike Crane, and Terry Shrum. Crane and Shrum later left GMT and founded the Fresno Gaming Association. In the 1990s GMT pioneered a pre-order system called "Project 500" or "P500", where customers pre-order a title and production does not begin until a set minimum of orders had been reached. This system has been adopted by other wargame publishers. GMT was successful during the 1990s, when other war game publishers were failing, which has been credited in part to their innovat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rodger MacGowan
Rodger B. MacGowan (born 1948) is an artist, game developer, art director and magazine publisher who has been active in the board wargame industry since the 1970s. MacGowan is a prolific artist of cover art for wargames, and the wargaming magazine he founded, ''Fire & Movement'', won the Charles S. Roberts Award several times while under his editorial control. Early life Rodger MacGowan was born in San Francisco in 1948, the son of career US Marine Corps, Marine Donald L. MacGowan, and grew up on various Marine bases in Hawaii, North Carolina, New Jersey, and California. Rodger was a budding artist from a young age and using his personal observations of military life, he began creating military history illustrations in the seventh grade. While attending Oceanside High School in California, he was introduced to Avalon Hill's ''Gettysburg (game), Gettysburg'' by a friend, and his parents purchased a copy for him while vacationing at the Battle of Gettysburg, Gettysburg battlefiel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mobile App
A mobile application or app is a computer program or software application designed to run on a mobile device such as a phone, tablet, or watch. Mobile applications often stand in contrast to desktop applications which are designed to run on desktop computers, and web applications which run in mobile web browsers rather than directly on the mobile device. Apps were originally intended for productivity assistance such as email, calendar, and contact databases, but the public demand for apps caused rapid expansion into other areas such as mobile games, factory automation, GPS and location-based services, order-tracking, and ticket purchases, so that there are now millions of apps available. Many apps require Internet access. Apps are generally downloaded from app stores, which are a type of digital distribution platforms. The term "app", short for " application", has since become very popular; in 2010, it was listed as "Word of the Year" by the American Dialect Society. Apps a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MBT (board Game)
''MBT'' (a military acronym for "Main Battle Tank") is a board wargame published by Avalon Hill in 1989 that simulates hypothetical World War Three tank combat between NATO and Warsaw Pact forces in Western Europe. A second edition was published by GMT Games in 2016. Description ''MBT'' is a two-player wargame of conventional ground-oriented combat set in 1987, during the final days of the Cold War. One player controls NATO mechanized forces defending West Germany, and the other player controls the invading Warsaw Pact forces. The game, which has two rulebooks, a large hex grid map, and over 400 counters representing individual tanks, trucks, airplanes, helicopters and squads of infantry, is moderately complex. The map is scaled to 100 m (110 yd) per hex, and depending on the scenario, each turn represents 1-5 minutes of game time. Gameplay The game uses an alternating "I Go, You Go" format. The Warsaw Pact player has the following phases: #Spotting #Command (move their units, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Here I Stand (boardgame)
''Here I Stand'' is a board game first published by GMT Games in 2006. Description ''Here I Stand'' is a card-based wargame in which players struggle for religious and political influence over early 16th century Europe during the Reformation. It can be played by up to 6 players, who represent the Habsburg Empire, the Ottoman Empire, England, France, The Papacy, and The Protestants. The game begins in 1517 and ends in 1555, taking up to 9 turns to play each representing about 4 years of history. The game is played in "impulses", with each player, one after the other, playing a single card during their impulse. Each card has a number on it indication the number of "command points" it grants the player, as well as text of a specific event, and generally players choose to either use the command points or to enact the event but not both. Command points are used to execution various military, political, religious, or exploratory actions such as moving armies or fleets, besieging a fort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fields Of Fire (game)
Fields of Fire is a solitaire tactical wargame published by GMT Games that is designed to simulate various historical campaigns of wars between World War II and now. The game is card based with two decks used to play, including a terrain deck and action decks. You must build maps for missions and then use turn-based In video and other games, the passage of time must be handled in a way that players find fair and easy to understand. This is usually done in one of the two ways: real-time and turn-based. Real-time Real-time games have game time progress cont ... strategic actions. A single game consists of several missions from a historical campaign and each of these individual missions can be played in about 3 – 5 hours. It has won ''Games Magazine'''s award for Best New Historical Simulation Game in their 2010 '' Games 100'' issue. According to the manufacturer, :This game is based on three actual campaigns experienced by units of the 9th US Infantry (Regiment) in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ancients
Ancient or ancients may refer to: People or things from antiquity: *Ancient history, from the beginning of writing to the Middle Ages *Prehistory, from the use of the first stone tools until the beginning of writing It may also refer to: As a proper name *Ancient (band), a melodic black metal musical group *Ancient (company), a Japanese software developer *Ancients (art group), a group of English artists in the 1820s and 1830s * ''Ancient'' (album), a 2001 album by Kitarō In fiction *Ancient (Stargate), a race who built the Stargates in the ''Stargate'' universe * Ancient (Traveller), a mysterious race that once dominated the galaxy in the ''Traveller'' role-playing game *Ancients (Eternal Darkness), a god-like race in ''Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem'' *Ancients (Legacy of Kain), a race in the ''Legacy of Kain'' games *Ancients, an advanced species in the '' FreeSpace'' space simulation computer game series * Ancients, a race in the ''Farscape'' TV series *Ancients, a vari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominant Species (board Game)
Dominant Species is a 2010 competitive, area control board game published by GMT Games, designed by Chad Jensen. The game is an evolution-themed game in which players take on the role of broad categories of life: mammals, reptiles, birds, amphibians, arachnids, and insects in a world heading for the Ice Age. Game Play The map is formed from hexagonal tiles in 7 terrain varieties (mountain, desert, forest, jungle, savannah, wetland or sea). Over the course of the game new tiles are added but also some are overlain with smaller tundra tiles. Each player has a player board and a number of species cubes, which the players aim to spread across the map. A key component in the game is the 6 ''Elements'' (grass, grub, meat, seed, sun, water), which can be both on the corners of tiles (representing supply) and on the players' boards (representing requirements) and also in the draw bag or action display. The better a species matches its requirements with the supply offered by the Element ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chandragupta (board Game)
''Chandragupta'' is a board wargame designed by Stephen R. Welch and released in 2008 by GMT Games as part of the ''Great Battles of History'' (''GBoH'') series of games (designed by Richard Berg and Mark Herman) on ancient warfare. ''Chandragupta'' simulates battles fought by the Mauryan Dynasty in ancient India, and in so doing, attempts to illuminate the features, challenges, and unique attributes of the Indian military system and culture during this period. Gameplay The game is a traditional Hex-and-counter style game. The game maps are covered with a hexagonal grid, each hex representing 70 yards of distance. Each turn represents about 15–20 minutes, although the rules are designed assuming a loose time scale. Each counter represents 300 to 1000 fighting troops, depending on size and type. Since little is known about the terrain, numbers of men or types of units engaged, methods of combat, leaders and so on, these games, despite their high level of detail, remain essent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Line
The line of battle is a tactic in naval warfare in which a fleet of ships forms a line end to end. The first example of its use as a tactic is disputed—it has been variously claimed for dates ranging from 1502 to 1652. Line-of-battle tactics were in widespread use by 1675. Compared with prior naval tactics, in which two opposing ships closed on one another for individual combat, the line of battle has the advantage that each ship in the line can fire its broadside without fear of hitting a friendly ship. This means that in a given period, the fleet can fire more shots. Another advantage is that a relative movement of the line in relation to some part of the enemy fleet allows for a systematic concentration of fire on that part. The other fleet can avoid this by manoeuvring in a line itself, with a result typical for sea battles since 1675: two fleets sail alongside one another (or on the opposite tack). Early development The first recorded mention of the use of a line o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
18XX
18XX is the generic term for a series of board games that, with a few exceptions, recreate the building of railroad corporations during the 19th century; individual games within the series use particular years in the 19th century as their title (usually the date of the start of railway development in the area of the world they cover), or "18" plus a two or more letter geographical designator (such as ''18EU'' for a game set in the European Union). The games ''2038'', set in the future, and ''Poseidon'' and ''Ur, 1830 BC'', both set in ancient history, are also regarded as 18XX titles as their game mechanics and titling nomenclature are similar despite variance from the common railroad/stock-market theme. The 18XX series has its origins in the game ''1829'', first produced by Francis Tresham in the mid-1970s. 1829 was chosen as it was the year of the Rainhill Trials. '' 1830'' was produced by Avalon Hill in 1986, and was the first game of the series widely available in the United S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
VICE News
Vice News (stylized as VICE News) is Vice Media's current affairs channel, producing daily documentary essays and video through its website and YouTube channel. It promotes itself on its coverage of "under-reported stories". Vice News was created in December 2013 and is based in New York City, though it has bureaus worldwide. History Before Vice News was founded, ''Vice'' published news documentaries and news reports from around the world through its YouTube channel alongside other programs. ''Vice'' had reported on events such as crime in Venezuela, the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, protests in Turkey, the North Korean and Iranian regimes, the Uyghur genocide, and the Syrian Civil War through their own YouTube channel and website. After the creation of Vice News as a separate division, its reporting greatly increased with worldwide coverage starting immediately with videos published on YouTube and articles on its website daily. In December 2013, Vice Media expanded its in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Washington Post
''The Washington Post'' (also known as the ''Post'' and, informally, ''WaPo'') is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It is the most widely circulated newspaper within the Washington metropolitan area and has a large national audience. Daily broadsheet editions are printed for D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. The ''Post'' was founded in 1877. In its early years, it went through several owners and struggled both financially and editorially. Financier Eugene Meyer purchased it out of bankruptcy in 1933 and revived its health and reputation, work continued by his successors Katharine and Phil Graham (Meyer's daughter and son-in-law), who bought out several rival publications. The ''Post'' 1971 printing of the Pentagon Papers helped spur opposition to the Vietnam War. Subsequently, in the best-known episode in the newspaper's history, reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein led the American press's investigation into what became known as the Watergate scandal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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