A board wargame is a wargame with a set playing surface or board, as opposed to being played on a computer or in a more free-form playing area as in miniatures...
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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...
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A wargame is a strategy game in which two or more players command opposing armed forces in a simulation of an armed conflict. Wargaming may be played...
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A computer wargame is a wargame played on a digital device. Descended from board wargaming, it simulates military conflict at the tactical, operational...
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Magazine Board Wargame Battle for Kursk: The Tigers Are Burning, 1943 C3i #34 Amateur/Print & Play Wargame Kettle Hill Postcard/Small Format Board Wargame Lucky...
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Kriegspiel (from the German for "wargame") is a board wargame published by Avalon Hill in 1970 that simulates a hypothetical war between two nations. Although...
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A wargame, generally, is a type of strategy game which realistically simulates warfare. A professional wargame, specifically, is a wargame that is used...
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Starfire is a board wargame (a "4X", eXplore, eXpand, eXploit and eXterminate) simulating space warfare and empire building in the 23rd century, created...
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Miniature wargaming is a form of wargaming in which military units are represented by miniature physical models on a model battlefield. Miniature wargames are...
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A grand strategy wargame or simply grand strategy game (GSG) is a wargame that places focus on grand strategy: military strategy at the level of movement...
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A wargame is a strategy game that realistically simulates warfare. Wargames were invented for the purpose of training military officers, but they eventually...
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Root: A Game of Woodland Might and Right is a 2018 asymmetric strategy wargame board game designed by Cole Wehrle, illustrated by Kyle Ferrin, and published...
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(TV series), a 2003 documentary series The First World War (wargame), a 1977 board wargame The First World War, a 1960 military history book by Cyril Falls...
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Gladiator is a board wargame originally published by Battleline in 1979 in the two-game boxed set Circus Maximus along with the game Chariot Racing. Both...
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Board wargaming in the modern, commercial sense have generally concentrated on gameplay designed for two or more participants. While playing solitaire...
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Shogun is a board wargame set in feudal Japan, first released in 1986 by game maker Milton Bradley. Shogun, designed by Michael Gray, was first released...
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The Campaign for North Africa (category North African theatre World War II board wargames)
North Africa (CNA), subtitled "The Desert War, 1940–43", is a strategic board wargame published by Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI) in 1978 that simulates...
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ranges of individual weaponry. The first tactical wargames were played as miniatures, extended to board games, and they are now also enjoyed as video games...
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Luftwaffe, subtitled "The Game of Aerial Combat Over Germany 1943-45", is a board wargame originally published by Poultron Press in 1969 under a different title...
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moved around on the map of a board wargame to represent relevant information or determine certain things. The first wargame based on cardboard counters...
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Starship Troopers is a board wargame by Avalon Hill based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert A. Heinlein. It was originally released in 1976...
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Fortress America (redirect from Fortress America (board game))
Fortress America is a strategic board wargame designed by Michael Gray and published in 1986 by Milton Bradley. The game depicts a 21st Century United...
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Monster game (redirect from Monster wargame)
WWII game. Wargames that are considered monster games include: Europa (wargame) War in Europe (game) List of board wargames List of wargame publishers...
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PanzerBlitz (category European theatre World War II board wargames)
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...
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Battle of Nations (wargame), a 1975 board wargame simulating the 1813 battle Leipzig: The Battle of Nations, a 1969 board wargame simulating the 1813...
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Ambush! (redirect from Ambush board game)
perfectly hiding the enemy. In all previous board based wargames, chits or markers had to be placed on the board representing enemy units. Some chits contained...
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Battle of the Five Armies is a board wargame published by LORE / JMJ Enterprises in 1975 — and later by TSR — that simulates the fictional Battle of Five...
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Field of Glory (category Board wargames set in Ancient history)
computers. The series is based on a 2008 miniature wargame. Field of Glory is a 2008 miniature wargame for creating ancient and medieval tabletop battles...
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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...
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Infinity (also known as Infinity the Game) is a complex tabletop miniature wargame with 28mm scale metal miniatures that simulates combat and special operations...
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