List of board wargames
Template:Short description Template:More citations needed Template:Wargaming This is a list of board wargames by historical genre (and some subgenres) showing their publication history. All games can be presumed to have been published in English unless another language is noted. Template:TOC limit
HistoricalEdit
Name | Publisher | Year | Notes |
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The Art of Siege | Simulations Publications, Inc. | 1979 | |
Combined Arms | 1974 | S&T #46, 1974 |
AncientEdit
Early Middle AgesEdit
Name | Publisher | Year | Notes |
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Barbarian Kingdoms | Jester Games | 2024 | |
Belisarius: The Byzantine Empire Strikes | Decision Games | 2002 | S&T #210, 2002 |
Byzantium | Warfrog | 2005 | |
Dark Ages: Tactical Warfare, 500-1300 | Simulations Publications, Inc. | 1971 | |
Norseman: Viking Kingdoms of the North Sea | Simulations Canada | 1985 | |
Siege!: The Game of Siege Warfare, 50 AD-1400 AD | Fact and Fantasy Games | 1974 | |
Viking | Simulations Publications, Inc. | 1975 | |
Viking Raiders | Standard Games | 1987 | Also released by Eurogames in French |
Vikingatid | Trollspel | 1998 | In Swedish |
Middle AgesEdit
Name | Publisher | Year | Notes |
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Agincourt | Simulations Publications, Inc. | 1978 | |
The Black Prince: The Battle of Navarette, 1367 | 1979 | ||
Conquistador | 1976 | S&T #58, 1976, Avalon Hill, 1983) | |
Cry Havoc | Standard Games | 1981 | |
The Crusades | Simulations Publications, Inc. | 1978 | S&T #70, 1978 |
Empires of the Middle Ages | 1980 | Re-released by Decision Games Template:Circa 2004 | |
Granada: The Fall of Moslem Spain | Avalanche Press | 2003 | |
The Golden Horde | Excalibre Games | 1978 | |
Hammer of the Scots | Columbia Games | 2003 | |
The Legend of Robin Hood | Operational Studies Group | 1979 | Re-released by Avalon Hill in 1980 |
Scotland the Brave | Avalanche Press | 1998 | |
Renaissance of Infantry | Simulations Publications, Inc. | 1970 | S&T #22, 1970 |
Yeoman | 1975 |
Early modernEdit
Napoleonic eraEdit
American Civil WarEdit
SkirmishEdit
Name | Publisher | Year | Notes |
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Devil's Den | Operational Studies Group | 1980 | Re-released by Avalon Hill in 1985 |
TacticalEdit
Grand TacticalEdit
Name | Publisher | Year | Notes |
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Bloody April: The Battle of Shiloh, 1862 | Simulations Publications, Inc. | 1979 | |
Terrible Swift Sword | 1976 | Re-released by TSR, Inc. in 1986 |
OperationalEdit
Name | Publisher | Year | Notes |
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Atlanta | Guidon Games | 1973 | |
Drive on Washington | Simulations Publications, Inc. | 1980 | |
Lee vs. Grant | Victory Games | 1988 | Wilderness Campaign, an ancestor of the Avalon Hill "Stonewall Jackson's Way" series |
Mosby's Raiders | 1985 | ||
Objective: Atlanta | Battleline Publications | 1977 | |
Shenandoah | 1975 | ||
Stonewall Jackson's Way | Avalon Hill | 1992 | Cedar Mountain to Second Bull Run |
Here Come the Rebels | 1993 | Re-released by Multi-Man Publishing; Antietam Campaign | |
Roads to Gettysburg | Re-released by Multi-Man Publishing; Gettysburg Campaign | ||
Stonewall in the Valley | 1995 | Shenandoah Campaign | |
Stonewall's Last Battle | 1996 | Chancellorsville Campaign | |
On To Richmond | 1997 | Re-released by Multi-Man Publishing; McClellan's Peninsula Campaign | |
Grant Takes Command | 2001 | Wilderness Campaign | |
Battle Above the Clouds | Multi-Man Publishing | 2011 | Chickamauga/Chattanooga |
StrategicEdit
Name | Publisher | Year | Notes |
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Bobby Lee | Columbia Games | 1993 | |
Sam Grant | 1997 |
Grand StrategyEdit
Name | Publisher | Year | Notes |
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The American Civil War 1861–1865 | Simulations Publications, Inc. | 1974 | S&T #43, 1974 |
The American Civil War 1861–1865 | TSR, Inc. | 1983 | S&T #93, 1983 |
Battle Cry | Milton Bradley | 1961 | |
Civil War | Avalon Hill | ||
The Civil War 1861–1865 | Victory Games | 1983 | |
A House Divided | Game Designers' Workshop | 1981 | Re-released by Phalanx Games in 2001 |
For the People | Avalon Hill | 1998 | Re-released in GMT Games in 2000 |
The U.S. Civil War | GMT Games | 2015 | |
War Between the States | Simulations Publications, Inc. | 1978 |
19th Century/Industrial warfareEdit
Name | Publisher | Year | Notes |
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Diplomacy | Self-published | 1959 | Re-released by Games Research in 1961 and by Avalon Hill in 1976 |
1898: The Spanish–American War | Avalanche Press | 2000 | |
1904–1905: The Russo-Japanese War | 1999 | ||
Chaco | Game Designers' Workshop | 1973 | |
Custer's Last Stand | Battleline Publications | 1976 | |
Pax Britannica | Victory Games | 1985 | |
Red Sun Rising | Simulations Publications, Inc. | 1977 | |
Rifle & Saber | 1973 | ||
Sadowa | Fusilier Games | 1977 | |
Viva España | Battleline Publications | 1977 |
World War IEdit
World War IIEdit
Tactical wargamesEdit
OperationalEdit
European TheatreEdit
Name | Publisher | Year | Notes |
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EuroFront | Columbia Games | 1995 | |
Triumph and Tragedy | GMT Games | 2015 |
Eastern FrontEdit
Western FrontEdit
Other campaignsEdit
Mediterranean Theatre and North African campaignEdit
Pacific and AsiaEdit
StrategicEdit
EuropeEdit
Name | Publisher | Year | Notes | |
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Trial of Strength | Panther Games | 1985 | ||
Advanced Third Reich | Avalon Hill | 1992 | ||
Axis & Allies: Europe | 2000 | |||
D-Day | 1961 | |||
Defiant Russia: 1941 | Avalanche Press | 2004 | ||
Europe Engulfed | GMT Games | 2002 | Winner of the Charles S. Roberts Award<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
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Fortress Europa | Avalon Hill | 1980 | ||
Hitler's War | Metagaming Concepts | 1981 | Re-released by Avalon Hill in 1984 | |
Luftwaffe | Avalon Hill | 1971 | ||
Red Vengeance | Avalanche Press | 2005 | ||
Rise and Decline of the Third Reich | Avalon Hill | 1974 | Re-released by Avalanche Press in 2001 | |
Russia Besieged | L2 Design Group | 2004 | ||
The Russian Campaign | Jedko Games | 1975 | Re-released by Avalon Hill in 1976 and by L2 Design Group in 2003 | |
Russian Front | Avalon Hill | 1985 | ||
Stalingrad | 1963 | |||
War at Sea | Jedko Games | 1975 | Re-released by Avalon Hill in 1976 and by L2 Design Group in 2007 | |
War in Europe | Simulations Publications, Inc. | 1976 | Re-released by Decision Games in 1999 | |
World War II: European Theater of Operations | 1973 |
Mediterranean & north AfricaEdit
Name | Publisher | Year | Notes |
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Afrika Korps | Avalon Hill | 1964 |
PacificEdit
Name | Publisher | Year | Notes |
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Axis & Allies: Pacific | Avalon Hill | 2001 | |
Empire of the Rising Sun | 1995 | ||
The Great Pacific War | Avalanche Press | 2003 | |
Pacific War | Victory Games | 1985 | |
U.S.N. | Simulations Publications, Inc. | 1971 | S&T #29, 1971 |
Victory in the Pacific | Avalon Hill | 1977 | |
War in the Pacific | Simulations Publications, Inc. | 1978 |
Grand Strategy (Global)Edit
Name | Publisher | Year | Notes |
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Axis & Allies | Nova Games | 1981 | Re-released by Milton Bradley in 1984 and by Avalon Hill in 2004 |
Global War | Simulations Publications, Inc. | 1975 | |
World in Flames | Australian Design Group | 1985 |
ModernEdit
TacticalEdit
Arab–Israeli warsEdit
Korean WarEdit
Name | Publisher | Year | Notes |
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Korea: The Mobile War 1950–51 | Simulations Publications, Inc. | 1970 |
Vietnam WarEdit
Name | Publisher | Year | Notes |
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Citadel: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu | Game Designers' Workshop | 1977 | |
Dien Bien Phu | SDC | 1973 | Conflict #6, 1973; re-released by Flying Buffalo Template:Circa 1977 |
Diên Biên Phu | Jeux Descartes | 1980 | In French |
Dien Bien Phu 1954 | Histoire & Collections | 2000 | In French; Vae Victis - #33, in 2000 |
Grunt | Simulations Publications, Inc. | 1971 | S&T #26, 1971 |
Hue | SDC | 1973 | Conflict #6, 1973; re-released as Battle for Hue by Simulations Design Corporation in 1977) and as Hue by Mayfair Games in 1982 |
Platoon | Avalon Hill | 1986 | |
Search & Destroy: Tactical Combat Vietnam 1965–1966 | Simulations Publications, Inc. | 1975 | |
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Year of the Rat | Simulations Publications, Inc. | 1972 | S&T #35, 1972 |
Contemporary World War IIIEdit
FictionalEdit
Alternate historyEdit
Name | Publisher | Year | Notes |
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Crimson Skies | FASA | 1998 | |
Dixie | Simulations Publications, Inc. | 1976 | S&T #54, 1976 |
Fortress America | Milton Bradley | 1986 | |
Amerika | Historical Board Gaming | 2015 |
Science fictionEdit
FantasyEdit
Abstract/genericEdit
Name | Publisher | Year | Notes | |
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Attack! | Eagle Games | 2003 | ||
Blitzkrieg | Avalon Hill | 1965 | ||
Castle Risk | Parker Brothers | 1986 | ||
Conquest | Self-published | 1972 | Released in German by Bütehorn in 1975 and in German by Hexagames in 1983 | |
Farlander | Revaler | 2002 | ||
Feudal | 3M | 1967 | Re-released by Avalon Hill in 1976 | |
Insurgency | Battleline Publications | 1979 | ||
Kriegspiel | Avalon Hill | 1970 | ||
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Heathen Thorn Enterprises | 1988 | |
Risk | Parker Brothers | 1959 | ||
Strategy I | Simulations Publications, Inc. | 1971 | ||
Strike Force One | 1975 | |||
Summit | Milton Bradley | 1961 | ||
Supremacy | Supremacy Games | 1984 | ||
Tactics | Self-published | 1953 | Re-released as Tactics I by Avalon Hill in 1983 | |
Tactics II | Avalon Hill | 1958 | ||
TEG: Plan Táctico y Estratégico de la Guerra | New Yetem | 1976 | In Spanish | |
Warlord | Gibsons Games | 1978 | Re-released as Apocalypse by Games Workshop in 1980 |
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
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