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Rise and Decline of the Third Reich or more commonly Third Reich is a grand strategy wargame covering the European theater of World War II, designed by John Prados and released in 1974 by Avalon Hill. Players take on the roles of major powers—Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States—from 1939 to 1946.
[7] Third Reich won the "Robbie"—the Charles S. Roberts Award—for "Best Professional Game of 1974" [8] and also became the focus of Chilean author Roberto Bolaño's novel El Tercer Reich (The Third Reich). [9] Prados designed another eleven games while at university, and two of them were finalists for a "Robbie"; Von Manstein: Battles for ...
In 1974, John Prados designed the board wargame Rise and Decline of the Third Reich, which was published by Avalon Hill and became very popular. Prados returned to Avalon Hill with a similar game set in the Pacific, but the game company turned him down. Prados subsequently sold Pearl Harbor to GDW. [2]
Ealy's revision, published in 1985, was based on very large wargames with economic elements by John Prados such as Rise and Decline of the Third Reich (Avalon Hill, 1974) and Von Manstein: Battles for the Ukraine (Rand Game Associates, 1975). The result, although identically titled, was a much larger and more complex game than its predecessor.
1952 version was published by "The Avalon Game Company" (1952-1958), an unincorporated garage mail-order business that was incorporated as Avalon Hill in 1958 Tactics II: 1958, [3] 1961, 1972 Tales from the Floating Vagabond: 1991 Role playing Third Reich: 1976, 1981 WWII grand strategy Advanced Third Reich: 1992 Titan: 1982 Fantasy monster combat
It has seen numerous versions and editions, and is currently available as John Prados' Third Reich from Avalanche Press, and as a far more complex descendant game, A World At War, published by GMT Games. La Bataille de la Moskowa (Martial Enterprises, 1974) Later republished by Games Designers Workshop and Clash of Arms.
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Created at the first Origins Game Convention in 1975, the awards were the brainchild of Canadian game store owner John Mansfield. [4] [5] Originally the awards were titled the "Origins Awards" but were informally known as the Charles Roberts Awards [6] and it was only in 1988 that Charles Roberts officially agreed to let his name be used. [7]