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The Charles S. Roberts Awards (or CSR Awards) is an annual award for excellence in manual, tabletop games, with a focus on "conflict simulations", which includes simulations of non-military as well as military conflicts, as well as simulations of related historical topics. [1]
Charles Swann Roberts (February 3, 1930 – August 20, 2010, [2] [3] [4] Baltimore, Maryland [5]) was a wargame designer, railroad historian, and businessman.He is renowned as "The Father of Board Wargaming", having created the first commercially successful modern wargame in 1952 (), [6] [7] the first wargaming company in 1954 (Avalon Hill), and designed the first board wargame based upon an ...
Postcard for international correspondence chess. The earliest play-by-mail games developed as a way for geographically separated gamers to compete with each other using postal mail. Chess and Go are among the oldest examples of this. [1] In these two-player games, players sent moves directly to each other.
This is a list of board wargames by historical genre (and some subgenres) showing their publication history.
People's War Games – publishers of the WW2 Russian Front monster wargame Korsun Pocket and some others WW1 and WW2 wargames. Privateer Press – publishers of WARMACHINE and HORDES as well as the Iron Kingdoms d20 RPG setting. Quarterdeck International - publishers of wargames since 1979, founded and operated by Jack Greene.
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] It also estimates a peak of about a few hundred thousand (again, historical) board wargamers in the U.S. in 1980, with about as many more in the rest of the world; the estimate for 1991 is about ...
Chainmail is a medieval miniature wargame created by Gary Gygax and Jeff Perren.Gygax developed the core medieval system of the game by expanding on rules authored by his fellow Lake Geneva Tactical Studies Association (LGTSA) member Jeff Perren, a hobby-shop owner with whom he had become friendly.
Atlantic Wall is a two-player (or two-team) monster wargame (having more than 1000 counters) with an enormous five-piece map. One player or team controls the Allied forces trying to land and break out into open country, and the other player or team controls the German forces trying to contain and destroy the Allies.