Charles S Roberts Award--Best Wargames Nominees

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I've listed the nominees for key awards--though there are others.


Best Pre-WWII era Board Game
Espana 1936 (Devir)
Manoeuvre (GMT Games LLC)
Pursuit of Glory (GMT Games LLC)
Unhappy King Charles (GMT Games LLC)
Warriors of God (Multi Man Publications, Inc.)

Best World War II Board Game
Combat Commander Pacific (GMT Games LLC)
Conflict of Heroes (Academy Games)
Storm Over Stalingrad (Multi Man Publications, Inc. )
The Devil's Cauldron (Multi Man Publications, Inc.)
Valor of the Guards (Multi Man Publications, Inc.)

Best Post-WWII era Board Game
Birds of Prey (Ad Astra Games)
World at War: Death of the 1st Panzer (Lock n Load Publishing, LLC)
Fields of Fire (GMT Games LLC)
Day of Heroes (Lock n Load Publishing, LLC)
Red Dragon Rising: The Coming War with China (Decision Games)

bit of a good year for wargames.

Lots of great titles nominated this year. It's a crime however that the CSRs lump all the pre WW2 games into one pot.

-Will

Note that a fellow Trasher's name appears at the bottom of this category:

James F. Dunnigan Design Elegance Award
Uwe Eickhart
Nicolas Eskubi
Chad Jensen
Nick Richardson
Adam Starkweather

Alas, if declared elegant he'll likely have his ID suspended.

Best guess is he'd settle for a Devil's Cauldron win, but there's a few titles with his fingerprints all over them in the lists.

Sag.

Bulwyf wrote:

Lots of great titles nominated this year. It's a crime however that the CSRs lump all the pre WW2 games into one pot.

-Will

This is discussed every year.

Good to see "Manoeuvre" in the mix. One of my current favorites!

Schweig! wrote:

Bulwyf wrote:

Lots of great titles nominated this year. It's a crime however that the CSRs lump all the pre WW2 games into one pot.

-Will

This is discussed every year.

And yet they continue to do it. There's got to be a better way to classify these games, pre-gunpowder/post-gunpowder, something!


-Will

do you want to categorise your games by period, or rather by tactical/strategic/operational level, or by naval/land/air/combined?

Jur wrote:

do you want to categorise your games by period, or rather by tactical/strategic/operational level, or by naval/land/air/combined?

by Mechanic. *ducks*

just kidding.

Jur wrote:

do you want to categorise your games by period, or rather by tactical/strategic/operational level, or by naval/land/air/combined?

Yes.

I think "Pre-WWII" is about the best split they can manage to get a reasonable number of games on each side of the line, at least from a timeline perspective.

Espana 1936 is right up against the line this year, but feels WWII to me.

Sag.

I think the split is fine. WWII games are the best and most important ones after all.

Jur wrote:

do you want to categorise your games by period, or rather by tactical/strategic/operational level, or by naval/land/air/combined?

I would prefer period. Let's say ancients to gunpowder and then gunpowder to WW2. I just don't believe that games like Espana and Unhappy King Charles should be classified in the same category. It reminds me of the way the old Dewey Decimal system for book classifications treated religion. There were tons of classifications for Christianity and then everything else was dumped into the "other" category.

-Will

Bulwyf wrote:

Jur wrote:

do you want to categorise your games by period, or rather by tactical/strategic/operational level, or by naval/land/air/combined?

It reminds me of the way the old Dewey Decimal system for book classifications treated religion. There were tons of classifications for Christianity and then everything else was dumped into the "other" category.

-Will

Well, obviously. You've got those who are going to heaven and those who aren't. What's the problem?