The GMT P500 Process

I received this in the email today:

Dear GMT Customer, First off, we’re sending this update only to customers who have given us their e-mail address at some point over the past few years – whether via an order, a feedback card, or at a game convention. We dislike Spam as much as anyone and don’t want to send these updates to anyone who doesn’t want them. If you’d prefer not to get our updates, please respond to this e-mail and place the word “Remove” in the header or body, and we’ll take your e-mail address out of our database so we don’t bother you. That said, for everyone else, this update consists of five main items:  The list of our newest P500 games – with links to detailed information about each A Note about two deleted EFS games This Fall’s Charge/Ship Schedule for P500 games Checking for New Updates on the “What’s New” Page of the Website Your Updated Personal Status Sheet 1. Additions to the P500 List We are adding five new items to the P500 list. Click the links below for details on each: Gergovia (GBoH Module for Alesia)  Designer: Richard Berg Kutuzov  Designer: Mark McGlaughlin Monmouth  (American Revolution Series Volume V)  Designer: Mark Miklos Pacific Typhoon  Designer: Ben Knight The Bulge (Fast Action Battles Series #1)  Designer: Rick Young  Your Personal Status Sheet (#4 below) shows the P500 ordering and contact information we have for you in our database. You can add or modify your orders by using our online ORDER PAGE or by contacting us by phone, fax, or e-mail: gmtoffice@aol.com www.gmtgames.com 800-523-6111 (US and Canada) 559-583-1236 (Overseas) 559-582-7775 (Fax) 2. Two East Front Series Games Deleted from P500 List  We are deleting the P500 reprint versions of both Typhoon and Barbarossa: Army Group Center. Designer Vance von Borries and Developer Tony Curtis have decided to create a “big box” project that combines these two into one big game and includes fully updated OOBs and linking rules for each. We’ll add the new game to the P500 list as soon as they have it ready.  3. This Fall’s P500 Charge and Ship Schedule  Here is the tentative schedule for the P500 games that we intend to charge and ship over the next few months. Your P500 Status Sheet at the end of this note shows your order status for these and all P500 games. Remember that you get the best P500 prices when you order before the game is charged, so order now to get great pricing on these upcoming games.  September: Charge: C3i #17, Barbarossa to Berlin Deluxe Map (& Rules), Down in Flames Squadron Pack Ship: Savannah October: Charge: Flying Colors, Commands & Colors: Ancients, Napoleonic Wars Deluxe Map (& Rules) Ship: C3i #17, Barbarossa to Berlin Deluxe Map, Down in Flames Squadron Pack November: Charge: Twilight Struggle, The Burning Blue, Wilderness War Deluxe Map (& Rules) Ship: Flying Colors December: Charge: Here I Stand, Mamluk Ship: Commands & Colors: Ancients, Napoleonic Wars Deluxe Map (& Rules), Twilight Struggle 4. Checking for News and Game Support Updates on the “What’s New” Page of the Website  As most of you know, we regularly update our website, www.gmtgames.com, with new Living Rules sets, multi-lingual rules translations, new scenarios, sneak peeks at upcoming games, and a variety of other news and support items. This is just to remind you that you can easily keep track of the new items we add (several times a week, usually) by checking the What’s New link on the main page of the website. On the What’s New page, we archive listings of all updates to the website over the past 6-12 months or so. So we encourage you to bookmark that page to help stay up to date with all of our latest game support materials. Finally, from all of us here at GMT, we want to sincerely thank you for buying our games. We hope that they continue to bring you many hours of enjoyment! Enjoy the games! The GMT Team Andy, Cha, Denise, Elizabeth, Gene, Jewel, Letitia, Lisa, Luke, Mark, Rachel, Rodger, Samantha, and Tony gmtoffice@aol.com www.gmtgames.com 800-523-6111 (US and Canada) 559-583-1236 (Overseas) 559-582-7775 (Fax)

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Of these, I P500'd (pre-ordered) the following: Flying Colors, Pacific Typhoon!, DiF Squadron Pack, and C3I magazine (the next issue).

Why, you ask? Am I Mad???

First of all, I'm getting tired of hearing how great ATLANTIC STORM is from guys like Joe Steadman and Rob Winslow. It didn't appeal to me when it came out (it sounded like a thinly disguised Euro to me) but after hearing Joe yammering away about it on the Dice Tower I'm convinced I'm not one of the cool kids now. So PACIFIC TYPHOON uses the same mechanics, same designer, etc. only it's set in the Pacific. It looks promising.

I've bought just about every Down in Flames series game since Rise of the Luftwaffe (usually in mulitples) so the Squadron pack is a natural.

Finally, FLYING COLORS is set in an era I love (age of fighting sail), using a system I like (WAR GALLEY modified) and it's designed by a buddy of mine, Mike Nagel. It's a natural.

The moral of the story, get off your butts and P500 some things so I can selfishly get the games I want! Do it right now!