Common Sense GMT P500 PitchSam London2026-02-19 | A (fairly) quick overview of Common Sense by GMT Games for the P500 campaign.
You can preorder Common Sense on GMT's P500 system at the website below: gmtgames.com/p-1217-common-sense.aspxCommon Sense Rules TeachSam London2026-02-19 | A fairly comprehensive rules teach for Common Sense. I forget to mention a few things, but this definitely gives you a strong enough grounding in the game system that you would be ready to play it if it was placed in front of you.
You can preorder Common Sense on GMT's P500 system at the website below: gmtgames.com/p-1217-common-sense.aspxMicroverse Launch VideoSam London2024-11-20 | This video starts with a pitch for Microverse by GMT Games, before moving on to a rules teach and an example round.
00:00 Quick Pitch 00:51 Overview 04:10 Future Plans 05:38 Start of Rules 06:00 Player Turn 08:08 Victory Conditions - First Three 09:05 Actions - Mobilize 10:07 Actions - Build 10:46 Actions - Colonize 12:20 Actions - Explore 14:18 Victory Conditions - Last One 16:06 The Senate 17:30 Combat 22:38 Faction Research Abilities 24:43 Example of Play 25:30 Start of Round 25:50 Trading - Whoops 27:32 Wildcard Actions - Whoops again 28:18 End of Round 29:23 Faction Spotlight 29:48 Faction Types 31:24 Shiku Strength 32:03 Shiku Weakness 32:47 Shiku Research Ability 34:12 OutroFirefight Tactical Solo Bot DemoSam London2023-12-11 | After much teasing I reveal the FFT solo bot. Here I cover core bot functionality and walk through a couple of a turns of the game playing against it.
0:00 Intro 0:52 Bot Overview 1:24 Bot Card Anatomy 2:45 Bot Card IDs and Deck Building 4:26 Bot Turn Resolution 7:44 Bot Op Fire 9:44 Bot Dice Drafting 11:07 Rules Disclaimer 11:48 Scenario Description 11:33 Bot Use of Concealed Units 12:53 Game Turn 1 21:43 Game Turn 2 28:33 OutroFirefight Tactical Example of PlaySam London2023-09-28 | An Example of Play video where I play through a couple of turns. This isn't intended so much as a rules explanation, but more to give an idea of what the flow of play actually looks like. I am playing both the Americans and Germans through turns 3 and 4 of the scenario Purple Heart Lane.
Intro 0:00 State of the playthrough1:09 Cleanup from turn 2 2:55 Beginning of turn 3 3:24 Scenario description 3:50 Disclaimer 5:25 Start of play 6:18 End of turn 3 13:32 Start of turn 4 14:32 Resume play 15:10 A Valor! 22:23 A second Valor! 23:49 Outro 25:43Firefight Tactical Intro VideoSam London2023-09-21 | A brief intro to Firefight Tactical by GMT Games covering the core systems of the game.