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Arab–Israeli Wars. (game) The Arab-Israeli Wars, subtitled "Tank Battles in the Mideast 1956–73", is a board wargame published by Avalon Hill in 1977 that simulates various battles during the Suez Crisis, Six-Day War and Yom Kippur War.
PanzerBlitz. 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.
Adaptation of the Avalon Hill board game, 1830. 5th Fleet: 1994 Achtung Spitfire! 1997 Andromeda Conquest: 1982 Avalon Hill's Advanced Civilization: 1995 B-1 Nuclear Bomber: 1981 Cave Wars: 1996 Computer Acquire: 1983 Adaptation of the Avalon Hill Board Game, Acquire. 1983 version was for Atari 400/800, Apple II/II Plus, Pet 2001 and TRS-80 ...
John Evans Hill (February 21, 1945 – January 12, 2015) [ 2] was an American designer of military board wargames, as well as rules for miniature wargaming. He is best known as the designer of the Avalon Hill board game Squad Leader and the American Civil War miniatures game Johnny Reb. He was inducted into the Charles Roberts Awards Hall of Fame .
Squad Leader is a tactical level board war game originally published by Avalon Hill in 1977. It was designed by John Hill and simulates on infantry combat in Europe during World War II. One of the most complex war games of its time, Squad Leader is the natural extension of the trend towards greater realism (and hence complexity) initiated by ...
Blitzkrieg is a strategic-level wargame published by Avalon Hill in 1965 that simulates a non-historical attack by one major power against another using the blitzkrieg strategy. It was the first commercial wargame that did not simulate an actual historical battle, and with almost 400 counters, it was a precursor to the "monster" wargames of the ...
4 to 6 hours. Chance. Medium. Age range. 12+. Skills. Tactics, strategy. Gettysburg is a board wargame produced by Avalon Hill in 1958 that re-enacts the American Civil War battle of Gettysburg. The game rules were groundbreaking in several respects, and the game, revised several times, was a bestseller for Avalon Hill for several decades.
Tactics. (game) Tactics is a board wargame published in 1954 by Avalon Hill as the company's first product. [2] Although primitive by modern standards, it and its sequel, Tactics II, signalled the birth of modern board wargaming for the commercial market. Tactics is generally credited as being the first commercially successful board wargame.