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Wooden Ships and Iron Men was a finalist for Computer Gaming World ' s 1996 "Wargame of the Year" award, [6] which ultimately went to Battleground 4: Shiloh. [7] The magazine's wargame columnist Terry Coleman gave it his 1996 "Most Pleasant Surprise" award, and dubbed it "easily the best game ever on the Age of Sail".
Jenga was created by Leslie Scott, [3] the co-founder of Oxford Games Ltd, based on a game that evolved within her family in the early 1970s using children's wooden building blocks [4] the family purchased from a sawmill in Takoradi, Ghana. The name Jenga is derived from kujenga, a Swahili word which means "to build". [4]
GMT Games entered the block wargame market in 2003 with the release of Europe Engulfed, a simulation of the entire ETO. A sister game, Asia Engulfed, was released in 2007, using blocks to represent fleets as well as ground forces. GMT also released a block wargame series called Commands and Colors: Ancients which met with
Wooden Ships and Iron Men is a two-player game that simulates naval combat in the 18th and 19th centuries between individual ships as well as with larger fleet actions. The 1975 Avalon Hill edition of the game has 23 scenarios, including the Battles of The Saintes, the Nile, and Trafalgar, [1] as well as smaller and lesser known actions.
Blockland is a sandbox game in which players build and play using Lego-like building blocks in singleplayer and multiplayer modes. [1] It was created by American developer Eric "Badspot" Hartman, using the Torque Game Engine, and was originally released as freeware on November 15, 2004.
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