 Cover | |
| Author | Nicholas Palmer |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Wargaming |
| Publisher | Hippocrene Books |
Publication date | 1980 |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 194 |
| ISBN | 978-0882545257 |
The Best of Board Wargaming is a 1980 book edited by Nicholas Palmer and published by Hippocrene Books.
The Best of Board Wargaming is a book that was published as a follow-up to The Comprehensive Guide to Board Wargaming (1977). [1]
Steve Jackson reviewed The Best of Board Wargaming in The Space Gamer No. 39. [1] Jackson commented that "This one belongs in the library of the game club, collector, or serious designer. As a reference work for the average gamer, fantasy/SF or otherwise, I couldn't recommend it. Consumer Guide's Complete Book of Wargames [...] is bigger, better, and half the price." [1]
Steve Jackson Games (SJGames) is a game company, founded in 1980 by Steve Jackson, that creates and publishes role-playing, board, and card games, and the gaming magazine Pyramid.
Louis Zocchi is a gaming hobbyist, former game distributor and publisher, and maker and seller of polyhedral game dice. In 1986, he was elected to the Charles Roberts Awards Hall of Fame.
OGRE is a science fiction board wargame designed by the American game designer Steve Jackson and published by Metagaming Concepts in 1977 as the first microgame in its MicroGame line. When Steve Jackson left Metagaming to form his own company, he took the rights to OGRE with him, and all subsequent editions have been produced by Steve Jackson Games (SJG).
White Bear and Red Moon is a fantasy board wargame set in the world of Glorantha, created by Greg Stafford and published in 1975. Stafford first tried to sell the game to established publishers, but despite being accepted by three different game companies, each attempt ended in failure; eventually he founded his own game company in 1974, the influential Chaosium, to produce and market the game.
Triplanetary is a science fiction board wargame originally published by Game Designers' Workshop in 1973. The game is a simulation of space ship travel and combat within the Solar System in the early 21st Century.
Metagaming Concepts, later known simply as Metagaming, was a company that published board games from 1974 to 1983. It was founded and owned by Howard Thompson, who designed the company's first game, Stellar Conquest. The company also invented Microgames and published Steve Jackson's first designs, including Ogre, G.E.V. and The Fantasy Trip.
D-Day is a board wargame published by Avalon Hill in 1961 that simulates the six months of the European Campaign of World War II from the Normandy Invasion to the crossing of the Rhine. It was the first wargame to feature the now ubiquitous hex grid map and cardboard counters, and was revised and re-released in 1962, 1965, 1971, 1977 and 1991.
Sniper!, subtitled "House-to-House Fighting in World War II", is a two-player board wargame about man-to-man combat in urban environments during WWII, originally released in 1973 by Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI). After TSR purchased SPI in 1982, TSR released an expanded edition of Sniper! in 1986, and followed up that up with releases of various "companion games" and a videogame.
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.
The Complete Book of Wargames by Jon Freeman and the editors of Consumer Guide was published in 1980 by Simon & Schuster under the Fireside imprint.
Fantasy Wargaming is a role-playing game published by Patrick Stephens Limited (U.K.) in 1981.
Elric: Battle at the End of Time is a board wargame published by Chaosium in 1982, an update of the 1977 game simply titled Elric. It is based on the Elric of Melniboné books by Michael Moorcock. There have been three English language editions, Elric (1977), Elric: Battle at the End of Time (1982), and Elric (1984), published by Avalon Hill.
Mayday is a 1978 board wargame published by Game Designers' Workshop. Mayday was part of a series produced by GDW called "Series 120" – games with 120 pieces that were designed to be learned and played in 120 minutes. It was the second boardgame to be published for Traveller. A second edition was published in 1980. It was republished in 2004 as part of Far Future Enterprises Traveller: The Classic Games, Games 1-6+.
The Comprehensive Guide to Board Wargaming is a 1977 book by Nicholas Palmer about the hobby of board wargaming.
Belter, subtitled "Mining the Asteroids, 2076", is a science fiction board game published by Game Designers' Workshop (GDW) in 1979.
How to $ell Your Wargame Design is a 1975 book written and published by Lou Zocchi.
Raid on Iran is a 1980 board game published by Steve Jackson Games.
Air War, subtitled "Modern Tactical Air Combat", is a board wargame published by Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI) in 1977.
The Playboy Winner's Guide to Board Games is a 1979 book by Jon Freeman. It is a revised edition of A Player's Guide to Table Games by the same author, but under the name John Jackson.
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