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We offer the following links to items on the web that may be of interest to strategy card gamers:
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
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 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.
Best place to start is: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/ and http://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.
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:
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.