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Kevin Zucker shares some memories of his recently passed friend, designer Jack Greene.

Poster: Doug Holt
Post Date: 3/24/2025


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Poster: Doug Holt
Post Date: 3/24/2025


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"...focus on creations of one author, whom you can treat as a whole wargaming history in micro-scale." Michal, in The Boardgames Chronicle, covers his three favorite John Butterfield games. See which game has a feature that "...creates fog of war as you do not know which part of enemy forces can still act in a turn."

Poster: Doug Holt
Post Date: 3/19/2025


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Poster: Doug Holt
Post Date: 3/14/2025


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Poster: Pat L.
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Poster: Doug Holt
Post Date: 2/26/2025


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Poster: Doug Holt
Post Date: 2/21/2025


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Game: Illusions of Glory: The Great War on the Eastern Front



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Publisher: GMT Games
Game Type: Board
Designer(s): Perry R. Silverman
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Description:


Illusions of Glory—The Great War on the Eastern Front is the latest Card Driven Game to simulate the Great War in Europe. First came the award-winning legendary Paths of Glory by Ted Raicer, which simulates the entire war in Europe and the Middle East which is now a convention favorite. It was followed by the well-received Pursuit of Glory, designed by Brad and Brian Stock, which focuses on the war in the Near East. Illusions of Glory takes this proven game system to a new and exciting level by applying its focus to the Eastern Front.


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9
Date: 3/26/2025
Poster: Doug Holt
Multi-Player Variant for Illusions of Glory

"Here is a variant for up to two players on a side." Perry Silverman, in Inside GMT Games, lays out intriguing elements to make this World War I game multiplayer. For example, "...an AP (Allied Powers) player may choose to play a Strategy Card from his own hand or the other AP player’s hand, simulating the friction in Allied Powers decision-making and allowing some 'interesting' and 'exciting' table talk."
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8
Date: 1/6/2025
Poster: Doug Holt
The Effect of Troop Quality in Illusions of Glory

"Troop Quality... addresses players’ comments that reinforcements have combat factors which are unrealistically strong when compared to regular units that start the games." Designer Perry Silverman discusses how this enhancement in the 2nd Edition of the game is implemented. "Troop Quality is a simple system that represents reinforcements made up of reserves and home guards as less capable than regular units."
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7
Date: 12/2/2024
Poster: Doug Holt
Illusions of Glory 2nd Edition: Return to the WW1 Eastern Front

Illusions of Glory designer Perry Silverman discusses the updates for the 2nd Edition of the game, which is in P-500 status. He further points out that it "...has been revamped to address player's comments, and its new rules, stratcards, counters, and gameboard can be viewed on its GMT webpage... As of today, 325 orders have been placed."
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6
Date: 5/6/2022
Poster: Doug Holt
No Quiet On The Eastern Front: An “Illusions of Glory” AAR

"This is either a good hand or a bad hand, depending on how you look at it." Inside GMT Games brings us a turn one AAR by LeftSide playing GMT Games' Illusions of Glory: The Great War on the Eastern Front, a card driven World War I title. Check out the action when the opening Central Powers "…hand is definitely signaling for some German action."
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5
Date: 5/23/2020
Poster: Harvey M.
Illusion of Glory – second play of this game (after errata)

Illusion of Glory published by GMT Games had some teething issues when it was first launched. These have mostly been corrected with errata publication and the game now gives a very interesting take on World War I Eastern front combat. The Boardgames Chronicle makes us go over the top and through no man’s land with this replay of the Brusilov Offensive scenario.
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4
Date: 11/10/2019
Poster: Mark D.
Illusions of Glory - Getting Familiar with the Game

"Today I would like to share my first experiences with Illusion of Glory - an interesting sequel to widely-known Paths of Glory. Here we have full focus on WWI Eastern Front on corps level, with interesting Card Driven mechanic. The errata prepared by GMT makes this game a really interesting publication. Please enjoy my first session report!"

Very brief post-play summary from The Boardgames Chronicle.
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3
Date: 4/9/2018
Poster: Mark D.
Illusions of Glory - Player Aid

Alejandro Calle created this Player Aid to help keep track of reinforcements, replacements and troop Quality in "Illusions of Glory".
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2
Date: 5/3/2017
Poster: Doug Holt
Multi-Player Variant for “Illusions of Glory”

The more the merrier! Designer Perry Silverman offers a couple of new approaches for accommodating multiple players per side in his GMT Games' Illusions of Glory, focused on the Eastern front of World War I. We thank Archive.org for preserving this web page.
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1
Date: 6/23/2016
Poster: Doug Holt
Illusions of Glory: Developing GMT’s Latest WW1 Card-Driven Game

National Will, or National Demoralization? Perry Silverman provides an update on changes and enhancements to his GMT Games' Illusions of Glory: The Great War on the Eastern Front, making the "game a better simulation—more realistic and challenging." We thank Archive.org for preserving this web page.
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