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  2. Counter (board wargames) - Wikipedia

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    In microgames, counters were printed on one or more sheets of thick paper which the player had to cut for themselves rather than the die-cut cardboard sheets included with most board wargames. Dragon Magazine used to include counters printed on a cardstock centerfold for monthly games (especially by Tom Wham ).

  3. Board wargame - Wikipedia

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    A board wargame is a wargame with a set playing surface or board, as opposed to being played on a computer or in a more free-form playing area as in miniatures games. The modern, commercial wargaming hobby (as distinct from military exercises, or war games ) developed in 1954 following the publication and commercial success of Tactics . [ 1 ]

  4. Simulations Canada - Wikipedia

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    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]

  5. List of Strategic Simulations games - Wikipedia

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    A turn-based strategy computer wargame set during World War II. Operation Market Garden: 1985: AppII, ATR, C64, DOS A turn-based strategy computer wargame set during World War II. Scenarios include the Airborne forces. Overrun! 1989: Ami, C64 Pacific General: 1997: Win A computer wargame depicting famous battles of the World War II Pacific ...

  6. List of wargame publishers - Wikipedia

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    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. They are the producer of the widest range of computer moderated wargames rules for tabletop miniatures.

  7. Computer wargame - Wikipedia

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    Computer wargames derived from tabletop wargames, which range from military wargaming to recreational wargaming.Wargames appeared on computers as early as Empire in 1972. . The wargaming community saw the possibilities of computer gaming early and made attempts to break into the market, notably Avalon Hill's Microcomputer Games line, which began in 1980 and covered a variety of topics ...

  8. Malta Storm - Wikipedia

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    With the rise of the personal computer in the early 1980s, SimCan began to create text-only computer wargames that included a hex grid map and counters. One of these was Malta Storm , created by Stephen Newberg, programmed by Robert Crandall and published in 1989 with box art by John Kula.

  9. Wargame - Wikipedia

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    A wargame is a strategy game in which two or more players command opposing armed forces in a simulation of an armed conflict. [1] Wargaming may be played for recreation, to train military officers in the art of strategic thinking, or to study the nature of potential conflicts.