Links to Strategy Gaming Resources

 

We offer the following links to items on the web that may be of interest to strategy card gamers:

 

Companies:

Not meant to be an exhaustive list, just, some of our favorites....

 

Avalon Hill:  http://grognard.com/info/ah.html

Where it all started….

 

ADG (Australian Design Group): http://www.a-d-g.com.au/

These guys published two of the best wargames ever made: Empire in Arms and World

In Flames.

 

ATO: http://www.atomagazine.com/game_01-1.html

Publishing the best wargame magzine these days. Interesting topics and a game with each issue. Highly recommended.

 

Avalanche Press:  http://www.avalanchepress.com/index.php

 

Clash of Arms:  www.clashofarms.com

Publishers of a variety of wargames. Have taken the big plung into card driven wargames with Triumph of Chaos.

 

Columbia Games:  www.columbiagames.com

Makers of the strategic “block” games – another great system.

 

Compass Games: http://compassgames.com/

Newer gameco. Released the highly acclaimed Silent War.

 

Decision Games: www.decisiongames.com

Publishes Strategy & Tactics magazine and a line of games – no strategy

 based cards games that I can see.

 

GMT:  www.gmtgames.com

A few companies have generated the preponderance of strategy gaming titles since the

demise of Avalon Hill and SPI. This is one of them: a great company, great site, extensive

 inventory of games. It also publishes all the strategy card bard games

 played at WAM, with the exception Hannibal(out of print Avalon Hill game – try Ebay)

 

HMS/GRD Games: http://hmsgrd.com/

Publishes the Europa series of games. Europa is WWII at divisional, regimental, and battalion

Level with semi-monthly turns and a scale of 16 miles per hex. Using a common game

System and interlocking maps, each game is playable separately or as a link in the full

Europa series of games and modules. They have also used the roughly the same system for

WW1. No strategy based card games, but one hell of a gaming system.

 

Multi-Man Publishing: www.multimanpublishing.com

Multi-Man Publishing is re-releasing some of Avalon Hill’s  line of

 wargames under exclusive license from Hasbro, Inc – according to their website.

Additionally, it looks like they will be introducing new titles. MMP also looks

like they are handling Tthe Gamers products. No strategy based card games, but

The Gamers put out some really nice gaming systems like their civil war series and

an WWII Eastern Front operational series.

 

Also, you can Multi-Man Publishing maintains a good ASL and Great Campaigns

of the American Civil War site.

 

Omega Games: http://www.omegagames.com/omega/do/military/home

They advertise that they are releasing an exciting, new card game featuring

Vanessa Kay from TV’s Man Show…”race to complete a portrait of

Vanessa and with the game…144 photo cards of Vanessa”…doesn’t sound like

historical strategy, but probably nicer to look at than photos of Putnick! Note to Ted –

how about a Mati Hari game!

 

Worthington Games: http://www.worthingtongames.com/

Newer gameco. Released Hearts & Minds in 2010 (Vietnam - card driven wargame).

 

Conventions:

 

See our Card Game circuit page for additional conventions.

 

Game Resources –Specific Titles:

 

Best place to start is: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/ and http://www.consimworld.com/

 

Online Discussion Boards:

 

Consimworld.com:  www.consimworld.com

We most of what is relevant or not gets discussed regarding boardgaming. There is a separate discussion board for about everything.

 

Empire in Arms:

 

http://www.student.gsu.edu/~pyang1/ejg/games/eia/eia.html

A great game. Takes forever, but with the right group of 7, the best.

 

Flags:

 

Flags: http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/

Interested in a particular historical flag, try this site. Has about anything and everything.

 

Gaming Organizations/Clubs:

 

BPA: www.boardgamers.org

THE strategy  board gaming organization. Don’t waste your time. If you’re want serious/fun/competitive strategy board gaming, this is THE organization.

 

Breakout Normandy: http://members.rogers.com/breakoutnormandy/index.html

Comprehensive site regarding Breakout Normandy.

 

Diplomacy:  www.diplom.org

If you are a fan of the game Diplomacy, you need to visit this site. It is ALL here.

 

Russian Campaign: www.geocities.com/russiancampaign/BPATourneyIV.htm

Its here if you’re a fan of Russian Campaign. Also, note that L2 Design Group is planning to reissue Russian Campaign (see link above).

 

War At Sea/Victory in the Pacific:  www.gameaholics.com

If you are interested in either of these games, here is your site.

Additionally, you get a bonus: everything you want to know about the game: Gangsters.

 

Librarians:

 

Grognards:  http://grognard.com

If you’re missing that errata or CRT or whatever from some boardgame published this or last century, it’s probably  here.

 

Internet Wargames Catalog - 4th ed:  mrboone@erols.com   (email)

Saw this on grognards, a catalog of all wargames published 1952-2002. I haven’t see it, but sounds interesting.

 

Index of Wargames   http://www.isimulacrum.com/GamesDB.html

Sometimes the link seems to be done, but when it is working it provides a good database of war-games.

 

Magweb:  www.magweb.com

Over 35,000 articles from 105 magazines are waiting in MagWeb.

Check it out.

 

Board Game Geek: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/

BIG site. Has an index of almost every boardgame (war, euros, whatnot) and various playaids, errata, etc

Also fairly good marketplace for buying and selling games.

 

Wargame Magazines:    http://tacticalwargamer.com/magazines/magazines.htm

 

Wargamer: http://www.wargamer.com/

Looks like a webzine – reviews games, articles on wargaming, etc

 

 

Playing Games on the Web:

 

ACTS: http://acts.warhorsesim.com/index.asp

There are approximately 500+ games of Titan, Republic of Rome, Paths of Glory, Barbarossa to Berlin, We the People, For the People, Wilderness Wars, 30 Years War and The Napoleonic Wars occurring at anyone one time on ACTS. ACTS provides the game log, card manager and dice server – all integrated for each game. All you need is the game map and pieces.

 

Cyberboard:  http://cyberboard.brainiac.com/

Helping to revolutionize gaming. Essentially, cyberboard is a program that has modules for many, many games (all the strategy card games) that provide an electronic copy of the game map, counters and playaids – everything you would have if you playing face to face. Games can just email the game file back and forth to each other. First you need the cyberboard program (version 2.0). Then, obtain a module for the particular game you enjoy playing and find an opponent.  Also – see this tutorial:    http://pbem.brainiac.com/cb_tutorial.htm  I’ve also included two “how to use cyberboard” PDFs on my site.

 

The Play by Email Emporium: http://pbem.brainiac.com/

Lots of stuff useful for play by email.

 

Index of Modules for Cyberboard:

 I usually start the search at one of the three places below. If that fails, post on consimworld for the correct title or just search the net.

 

http://www.geocities.com/darksan/cbdesign.htm

http://haverts.com:16080/cyber/index.html

http://www.sweetkiss.net/~sk006/wzc/Eng/dl_title_all.html#d

 

 

HPS: http://www.hpssims.com/

HPS Simulations allowed us to start playing all those old games that had been in the closet.  HPS first produced a program, Aide De Camp (ADC), that allowed one to make a electronic version of about any game. Since then, HPS has introduced ADC 2. "Essentially, ADC2 allows you to convert any hex or grid-based boxed wargame from paper and cardboard into electrons.....you can then play your turn, save the file (which usually zips down to less than 10k in size) and send it to your opponent. All movement and combat are saved in a replay file. The system is incredibly flexible." You need a copy of ADC2 and then the individual game module.
 

So, you want to play Puerto Rico online?

BSW, a German online gaming universe. MANY Euros are played here – real time/on line.

The game interface for titles like Puerto Rico is OUTSTANDING – just like playing the boardgame.

The site is in German, but I had zero problems figuring it out after a few minutes.

The link above is the place to start. Here is the link for BSW http://www.brettspielwelt.de/gate/jsp/base/index.jsp

Yes, Puerto Rico is not a wargame, but it is a great strategy game. You may not be able to sink the ships, but you can blockade them!

John Weber, the GM for the game at WBC, maintains a great Puerto Rico site at: http://www.boardgamers.org/yearbook/index.htm

 

So, you want to play the card driven games online realtime?

Wargameroom.com: http://home.comcast.net/~brucewig/

Bruce Wigdor’s online REALTIME versions of BtB, EE, H:RC, PoG, UF, WtP, and WW.

 

 

Player Rankings:

 

AREA: http://wolff.to/area

THE rating system for strategy gamers. It stands for Avalon Hill Reliability, Experience, and Ability Scoring System. If you’re interested in how you stack up against fellow players regarding about any title that you play, check it out.

 

World Strategy Gamer Ratings:  http://www.wamconvention.com/rankings.html

Who is the best? Our view based upon AREA rankings and what not.

 

 

So you want to be a game designer:

 

Manufacturing/Marketing your game: http://beach.silcom.com/~tomjolly/design.htm

Decent place to start

 

Board Game Designers’ Forum: http://www.bgdf.com/index.php

Good forum with a lot of links, etc

 

Consimworld also has a number of discussion boards devoted to the topic.

 

 

Wargame Posters:

 

Indian Wargames:  www.indiawargamers.com/articles/more_posters.html

I found the link to posters on our website on the BPA site. Hat’s off to the gang that put them together

And, they were even kind enough to give us permission to use the posters.