Opponents Wanted

Find Gaming Opponents!

Another new feature for Grognard.com, "Opponents Wanted" provides a quick and easy way to locate gaming opponents with similar gaming preferences. Requires site registration. Grognard.com Opponents Wanted



Spotlight Articles

Outstanding articles that are not necessarily linked to one particular game, but may have broad appeal to gamers.

Battles of Heraclea Lyncestis, 219 BC and Emporiae, 218 BC (Med Campaign 9)

Spotlight Article Graphic

"Reports are in of a battle in northern Macedon between the invading Illyrians and a force scrambled together to meet them...". Prufrock continues with two more nicely photographed AARs in the ongoing Med Campaign! "...in Nearer Spain, Proconsul Aaronius Dubius Scipio Calvus, having landed a force near Emporiae, was engaged by an alliance of indomitable Iberian tribes...".

Poster: Doug Holt
Post Date: 6/9/2025


My pre-orders analysis – what is new and coming!

Spotlight Article Graphic

Michal, in The Boardgames Chronicle, covers his current game preorders, and why he is anxiously awaiting them. See which game has him commenting that "...we are getting so many new elements – from graphical representation, to add-ons and optional rules – that this it will be a great, refreshing comeback to fantastic classic!"

Poster: Doug Holt
Post Date: 6/6/2025


My Top Solitaire Wargames: New Designs and All-Time Classics

Spotlight Article Graphic

Michal, in The Boardgames Chronicle, reveals his favorite recent and all time solitaire classics. Check out the game he describes as "...probably the best small units combat simulation ever created, which has fantastic planning phase and unfolds completely differently each time.", and the one that challenges you to "...harness a brilliant mind, titanic energies, and a sometimes terrifying charisma to leave your mark on history?"

Poster: Doug Holt
Post Date: 6/4/2025


Soviet 12mm WWII Pocket Army

Spotlight Article Graphic

"My second WWII Pocket Army is now complete..."! Norm Smith, in Battlefields & Warriors, brings us a Pocket Army update pictorial.

Poster: Doug Holt
Post Date: 5/26/2025


The Battle of the Sacred Grove (Med Campaign 5)

Spotlight Article Graphic

"Upon sighting the lead elements of Roman forces, being the swift-moving Equites and Velites, this mass of warriors descended from the heights to fall upon Regulus’s army." Prufrock brings us a nicely photographed Roman/Barbarian minatures clash set in 225 BC. How do the Romans fare, while already engaged, when "...a large body of the Boii tribe arrived to the north, moving southwestward towards the ridge, aiming to bolster their colleagues..."?

Poster: Doug Holt
Post Date: 5/21/2025


Grant’s Top 10 Solitaire Wargames of 2024!

Spotlight Article Graphic

Grant Kleinhenz, in The Players' Aid, offers an intriguing list of solitaire games from last year. See which one had him commenting "...I was very much intrigued by the concept but more importantly about how this game planned to do just that."

Poster: Doug Holt
Post Date: 5/7/2025


Historicon 2025

Spotlight Article Graphic

Historical Miniatures Gaming Society July 16-20, 2025. Lancaster County Convention Center, Lancaster, PA. Hundreds of tabletop miniatures games for you to participate in; tournaments; hobby classes; lectures; a board game library; and over 60 hobby-related vendors.

Poster: Robert Holifield
Post Date: 4/29/2025


More Spotlight articles...


Gaming Conventions

Gaming Conventions

Another new feature for Grognard.com, the Gaming Convention calendar will make it a snap to keep up with all the latest gaming conventions in your area. But we need your gaming convention information, so please contribute.



Grognard News

Grognard Challenge - Expanded Room for Comments! (6/25/2023)

The Comments entry area has been resized to 512 characters.

Grognard Originals

In addition to our links to great content all around the internet, expect to see more Grognard.com "originals" in the future.

Malaya (v2.5) War Game Review

Pat La Pella reviews this post-card sized game and its computer editions. Can the UK Commonwealth prevent the Japanese from occupying Singapore in 1941?

Malaya Player Aid (pdf)

Pat La Pella created this player aid to clarify special movement rules for the Japanese player for Amphibious Movement and Reinforcement beach landing hexes. Computer versions of the game show eligible hexes automatically when the Japanese player selects a unit for movement.

PE TANG 1900 Q&A with Marco Campari

Some Q & A between myself and Marco Campari, designer of Pe Tang 1900 from Lumaca Games.

PE TANG 1900 Strategy Tips

This is the strategy I developed after playing Pe Tang 1900 from Lumaca Games.

More Grognard Originals...


Grognard Challenge

Latest Challenge

Have a look at the graphics for the latest Challenge and see past solutions and contest winners.

Recommended (archives)

Wargaming - General Info

Board Wargames

Miniatures Wargames

Computer Wargames

Academic Gaming

Board Games

Internet Based/PBEM Games

Individual Wargamer Blogs

Wargaming Magazines

Asst Software/Player Aides

In Memoriam

Grognards Lost


A B C D E F G H I
J K L M N O P Q R
S T U V W X Y Z '-9

Game: MBT (Main Battle Tank)



(m10014)
 
 




Publisher: GMT Games
Game Type: Board
Designer(s): James M. Day
Search for this and related games with Noble Knight


Description:


"MBT is a complete game system modeling the US 7th Army and the GSFG Soviet mechanized forces of 1987. It is M1 Abrams (105mm and 120mm armed versions) versus a whole stable of Soviet armor with their T-80s, T-72s, T-64s, and upgraded models of the T-62 and T-55. There is even M60A3s sprinkled in to balance out the US tank inventory. Bradley IFVs and CFVs mechanized units are set to take on their counterparts mounted in BMP-1, 2s and even a few 3s. Not to be overlooked, M113A2s and BTRs and MT-LBs are also set to make their appearance. Mechanized infantry and their related weapons are in abundance, including the M47 Dragon, M72 LAW, AT-7 Saxon, AT-4 Spigot, and multiple RPG versions. The scale is right down in the weeds with individual vehicles, infantry squads, half-squads and sections. Each hex is just 100 meters across, so it is going to be nose-to-nose action at its finest. (Game description is from GMT's website)". This updated edition was published by GMT games in 2016. The original edition was published by Avalon Hill in 1989.


Articles


Article ID
Pub Date
Article Description
Source
12
Date: 9/16/2024
Poster: Robert Holifield
Return to the Third World War

Jim Werbaneth gives us the game's history and background, starting the Avalon Hill edition and how it compares with the updated and improved GMT edition. He covers the rules, counters, charts and map etc. This article first appeared in Line of Departure Wargaming Quarterly No. 79, Fall 2016.
Grognard Hosted
8
Date: 9/3/2022
Poster: Robert Holifield
Game Review

Concise review by Rick Martin for the Armchair General. About two dozen screenshots at the end of the article. (Sep 2016)
Web Link
9
Date: 9/3/2022
Poster: Robert Holifield
MBT: The Gap

"That is a heck of a lot of firepower." Brad, in his Hex Sides and Hand Grenades blog, regales us with a replay of GMT Games' MBT. It's quite an engagement when, despite all the firepower, "…the Soviet tanks come on board, taking eye-watering losses…" (Apr 2018)
Web Link
10
Date: 9/3/2022
Poster: Robert Holifield
MBT: FRG - First Moves Pt. 1 - Scenario 11

"Maybe they can catch the Russians with their pants down…". Brad, in his Hex Sides and Hand Grenades blog, regales us with a scenario replay from GMT Games' 2nd Edition of James Day's MBT. See who comes out on top in this instructive, and lopsided, result: "I would hope at least one or two lessons would be learned from this shellacking." (Dec 2018)
Web Link
11
Date: 9/3/2022
Poster: Robert Holifield
Storm and Steel: A Scenario for MBT

"[Hauptmann] Mohr is a fresh graduate of the Armor School at Munster, unsure of his own ability…". Brad, in his Hex Sides and Hand Grenades blog, offers a GMT Games' MBT scenario that goes with his novel Storm and Steel. Both the novel and the scenario sound like fun, and just who is this "…irascible Oberleutnant Muller…"? (Aug 2018) We thank Archive.org for preserving this web site.
Archive.org
7
Date: 12/9/2016
Poster: Doug Holt
MBT Example of Play (Part 4): Advanced Game GP Fire

Shooter Suppressed? James M. Day continues with another play example in his tactical detail-fest MBT from GMT Games. How does a "Seasoned Unit Grade" vs. "Veteran Unit Grade" encounter play out?
Web Link
6
Date: 9/12/2016
Poster: Doug Holt
MBT: First Clash

"It's all shockingly simple and it works really well." Brad of Hexsides and Hand Grenades starts learning his way into GMT Games' MBT, playing a 1987 Soviets vs. Americans tank scenario -- with dramatic results! After little more than a handful of game turns, someone is in the unhappy spot where "It looks like this turn will be yet another bloodbath...", and "There are too many guns focused on too few tanks."
Web Link
5
Date: 4/4/2016
Poster: Doug Holt
MBT Initiative Example of Play

Who's in the driver's seat? Designer James M. Day shows how his GMT Games' MBT keeps things lively with a variable initiative system. "It goes without saying that shooting first and moving second affords a distinct advantage."
Web Link
4
Date: 12/30/2015
Poster: Doug Holt
MBT Command and Control Example of Play

Command Span, Command Range: ... you can't be everywhere at once! MBT designer James M. Day shows how GMT Games' MBT implements the critical limitations of command and control. Find out how he achieves this via tools like 'unique' and 'N/C' commands.
Web Link
3
Date: 12/11/2015
Poster: Doug Holt
MBT Artillery Example of Play

"Incoming!" Designer James M. Day gives a nice taste of death-from-above in GMT Games' MBT tactical gorgefest simulation of a late 80's NATO/Soviet clash. See more at GMT Games – MBT.
Web Link