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I like Triumph and Tragedy due to the cardplay and cool ability to influence various powers.it can be argued it’s less a WW2 sim as a political sim around that time because of how much of a sandbox it is. Unconditional surrender is my go to for strategic scale mini monster.
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So am I right in imagining that the GMT sale is going to go live, and the pent-up enthusiasm and frustration for a sale that hasn't been held for years is going to alternate between crashing their site and having everything in stock sell out immediately? I started to P500 games right when they stopped doing sales, so I haven't been through one of their sales before.
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admanb posted:I doubt there's even a gooncensus on whether those are all WWII simulators. Yeah, imo, one of those is a simulator, one is a beer and pretzels strategy game, and one is a party game. You decide which is which.  Think about it. No, you think about it.
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homullus posted:So am I right in imagining that the GMT sale is going to go live, and the pent-up enthusiasm and frustration for a sale that hasn't been held for years is going to alternate between crashing their site and having everything in stock sell out immediately? I started to P500 games right when they stopped doing sales, so I haven't been through one of their sales before. That’s what I imagine. 1846 is probably one of the few titles that’ll be available unless there’s more overlap between xx grognards and wargame grognards than I imagine. 1862 can’t come quickly enough Maybe the right answer is to buy thunder alley
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Oct 18, 2018 18:50
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Chill la Chill posted:That’s what I imagine. 1846 is probably one of the few titles that’ll be available unless there’s more overlap between xx grognards and wargame grognards than I imagine. 1862 can’t come quickly enough I'm already looking forward to my own feeling of disappointment and dumb GMT hand-wringing about how they didn't foresee it. Edit: sadly, I already have Thunder Alley
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Oct 18, 2018 18:51
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CaptainRightful posted:This is essentially how the US government described the actual Vietnam
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Oct 18, 2018 19:03
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GMT Sale Update Sale starts at 1PM Pacific. Goes until midnight October 25. Sale is open to anyone/everyone (no matter what you've ordered in the past), but everyone is limited to a maximum 20 game order. All in-stock games will be 50% off. Sales Code: GMTSale2018 EDIT: aaaaaaaand the website is timing out AARP LARPer fucked around with this message at 19:08 on Oct 18, 2018 |
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Oct 18, 2018 19:05
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Dadbod Apocalypse posted:GMT Sale Update Did everyone just crash their site? 
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Oct 18, 2018 19:08
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Site’s dead, congrats GMT
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Oct 18, 2018 19:09
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Chill la Chill posted:That’s what I imagine. 1846 is probably one of the few titles that’ll be available unless there’s more overlap between xx grognards and wargame grognards than I imagine. 1862 can’t come quickly enough 1846 is my target with Colonial Twilight as a "nice to have."
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Oct 18, 2018 19:10
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I know wargames are kind of a niche product with limited sales but it can't possibly be so insanely unprofitable as for their website to barely be family-owned restaurant quality.
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Oct 18, 2018 19:16
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reminder that this is the user experience immediately after GMT's completion of a two year "upgrade" of the website and backend ordering system
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Oct 18, 2018 19:18
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re: wargames set in WWII - I guess what I'm trying to get is a political sandbox of WWII that lets you play within the time period. It sounds like Triumph and Tragedy is the winner there?
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Oct 18, 2018 19:19
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Well I mean their website still looked like an early 2000s relic and their search never worked
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Oct 18, 2018 19:19
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Impermanent posted:re: wargames set in WWII - I guess what I'm trying to get is a political sandbox of WWII that lets you play within the time period. It sounds like Triumph and Tragedy is the winner there? Yeah, unless you have a lot of friends and cataclysm is supposedly better. IDK though, the cardplay and sandbox of T&T is hard to beat
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Oct 18, 2018 19:19
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Spare a thought for those of us in Europe. The shipping on a standard size GMT game is about $30 at a minimum which kinda wipes out any discount. Take into account the customs fees and Royal Mail's "handling fee" for doing that customs clearance and you're almost certainly better off just buying from a regular online store. Pity me, I say!!!
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Oct 18, 2018 19:27
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The site is working, but it's s-l-o-w. I'm gradually adding items to my cart.
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Oct 18, 2018 19:29
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How do we know what's "in stock"?
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Finster Dexter posted:How do we know what's "in stock"? There's an option for in-stock games in their games section.
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Oct 18, 2018 19:34
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Space Empires might be my only GMT sale purchase. Is Replicators essential or skippable? Too bad the Empire of the Sun reprint isn't out yet. I've been tempted by Sekigahara but the only person in town that I can imagine wanting to play it against me already owns it. Does the sale only include GMT games in stock or also the Hexasim games they distribute? Impermanent posted:re: wargames set in WWII - I guess what I'm trying to get is a political sandbox of WWII that lets you play within the time period. It sounds like Triumph and Tragedy is the winner there? I would tell you more about Axis Empires: Totaler Krieg, but I still have never got it to the table. I've read about half of the rulebook.
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Oct 18, 2018 19:34
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GMT Games posted:We expect numerous games to sell out during the sale. When you try to add a game to your cart and get a message that the order exceeds quantity remaining in stock, it's sold out. Please choose other games. We'll do our best to update these with sold out notifications on their thumbnails and moving them out of the in-stock category as quickly as possible during the sale to avoid confusion.
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Oct 18, 2018 19:35
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VoodooXT posted:There's an option for in-stock games in their games section. lol there it is... under "Departments"
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Oct 18, 2018 19:40
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CaptainRightful posted:
Only GMT Games in stock.
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Oct 18, 2018 19:41
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The site was functional enough to get 1846, Colonial Twilight, and counter trays into my cart, which means now I don't have to add to the traffic until 1.
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Oct 18, 2018 19:54
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I can't even load my cart, anymore.
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Oct 18, 2018 20:02
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Those Next War games are gonna be sold out and I'm gonna be gettin real mad online in a minute here
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Oct 18, 2018 20:02
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I have everything I want in my cart, but some of the quantities I need to change (some of them I have 2 of them).
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Oct 18, 2018 20:03
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Yeah I have 4 Next War: Taiwan in my cart right now. If it doesn't let me update my quantities then welp guess I'm buying $962 worth of board games... it'll be 50% off though! 
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Oct 18, 2018 20:05
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Half price might force me to get Fields of Fire, a game I have bounced in and out of my cart a 100 times.
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Oct 18, 2018 20:13
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CaptainApathyUK posted:Spare a thought for those of us in Europe. The shipping on a standard size GMT game is about $30 at a minimum which kinda wipes out any discount. I am extremely glad I stumbled across Thunder Alley on discount in my FLGS
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Oct 18, 2018 20:14
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Chill la Chill posted:Yeah, unless you have a lot of friends and cataclysm is supposedly better. IDK though, the cardplay and sandbox of T&T is hard to beat this is a definite why not both situation we have on our hands here
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Oct 18, 2018 20:17
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lol @ at the gmt site i love this dead hobby
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Oct 18, 2018 20:29
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As near as I can tell all the stuff in interested in (1846, comancheria, ADP or FITL, Sekigahara) isnt on sale?
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Oct 18, 2018 20:40
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You need to use the code.
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Oct 18, 2018 20:46
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Jordan7hm posted:You need to use the code. And the code will be valid at like 1pm pacific time.
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Oct 18, 2018 20:48
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Oh cool. Now someone tell me not to blow a bunch of money on games I won't play
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Oct 18, 2018 20:50
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Pretty lovely sale, GMT.
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Oct 18, 2018 20:54
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CommonShore posted:Pretty lovely sale, GMT. Seems great to me.
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Oct 18, 2018 20:56
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It's getting to the point where I'm feeling I should just give up on this sale.
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VoodooXT posted:It's getting to the point where I'm feeling I should just give up on this sale. At least if the server is inaccessible nothing can go out of stock!
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