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Collins Epic Wargames – publisher of the Frontline General series of board/mini wargames. Columbia Games (originally Gamma Two Games) – the biggest producer of "block games", using wooden blocks instead of cardboard counters. Compass Games – founded 2004. Publisher of Paper Wars. Computer Strategies – founded in 1990.
Squad Leader had counters of different sizes: 520 1 ⁄ 2-inch counters and 192 5 ⁄ 8-inch, with the different sizes used for different purposes. Boardgame counters are often closely related to military map marking symbols, such as those seen in the NATO standard APP-6a, and often include a simplified APP-6a representation as part of the counter.
As the wargames industry grew, Simulations Canada made a number of text-only computer wargames that included a traditional board-game map and counters. [1] The company decided to focus entirely on computer games by 1986. [ 2 ]
A Victory Denied is a 2009 hex-and-counter board wargame taking place between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II. The Complete Wargames Handbook shows sales of wargames (historical only) peaking in 1980 at 2.2 million, and tapering off to 400,000 in 1991. [16]
[2] TSR soon learned that one reason for SPI's demise was the collapse of the wargame market in the early 1980s. As a result, rather than becoming a major player in the wargame market, TSR published fewer and fewer wargames. Eventually TSR discontinued all the SPI magazines except for Strategy & Tactics. In 1987, TSR sold the rights to S&T to 3W.
Computer wargames (2 C, ... Business war games; C. Combat results table; Company Commander (play-by-mail game) Conquest of Insula II; Counter (board wargames) Crisis ...
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PanzerBlitz is a tactical-scale board wargame published by Avalon Hill in 1970 that simulates armored combat set on the Eastern Front of World War II.The game, which was the most popular board wargame of the 1970s, is notable for being the first true board-based tactical-level, commercially available conflict simulation wargame.