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The most successful card wargame (as a card game and as a wargame) would almost certainly be Up Front, a card game about tactical combat in World War II published by Avalon Hill in 1983. The abstractness is harnessed in the game by having the deck produce random terrain, and chances to fire, and the like, simulating uncertainty as to the local ...
In Issue 23 of Moves (Oct-Nov 1975), Richard Berg commented, "Of more than usual interest is Maplay's Guerrilla, another game published in England.A tactical-level game that seems to be more operational than anything, this simulation of the guerrilla warfare in Indonesia in the '60's is a great deal of fun with its surprise attacks, helicopters and canoes and unknown victory conditions."
Space Battle (play-by-mail game) Space Combat (play-by-mail game) Spiral Arm (game) Star Wars: X-Wing Miniatures Game; Starlord (play-by-mail game) Starship Command (play-by-mail game) State of War (play-by-mail game) Strategic Conflict; Strategic Imperial Conquest; Supernova II
Strategic Studies Games 1980: Alexander at Tyre: Thunderhaven Game Co. 1993: Alexander the Great: Guidon Games: 1971: Re-released by Avalon Hill in 1974: Ancients: Good Industries: 1990: Re-released by 3W in 1992 and by Games Publications Group in 1999: Assyrian Wars: Udo Grebe Gamedesign: 2005: Armageddon: Tactical Combat, 3000-500 BC ...
Knight Models – publishes Batman Miniature Game, a skirmish game based on the adventures of the iconic Dark Knight, and Harry Potter Miniatures Adventure Game, a board game with miniatures featuring the famous wizarding saga. L2 Design Group; Legion Wargames - publisher of several games including Toulon, 1793, Maori Wars and many more.
The first wargame was invented in Prussia in 1780 by Johann Christian Ludwig Hellwig, who was a college professor in Brunswick.Hellwing wanted to design a game by which he could teach some principles of warfare to his students, many of whom were noblemen destined for military service, but he also wanted his game to be fun and accessible to the general public so that he could sell it as a ...
Tactical Game 3 was introduced by Strategy & Tactics magazine as a platoon/company level game focusing on tactics on the Eastern Front. In 1970, that game's designer, the legendary James F. Dunnigan, sold the rights to the game to Avalon Hill, who quickly released PanzerBlitz. This was the start of the so-called "Second Generation" of wargaming.
Battle for Normandy (video game) The Battle for Wesnoth; Battle Group (video game) Battle Isle (video game) Battle Isle 2200; Battle Isle 2220; Battle of Antietam (video game) Battle of Britain (1999 video game) The Battle of Chickamauga (video game) The Battle of Shiloh (video game) Battle of the Atlantic: The Ocean Lifeline; Battle of the ...