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Avalon Hill
Avalon Hill was a game company that specialized in wargames and strategic board games. Their logo contained their initials "AH", and it was often referred to by this abbreviation. It also published the occasional miniature wargaming rules, role-playing game, and had a popular line of sports...
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Acquire
Acquire is a board game designed by Sid Sackson. The game was originally published in 1962 by 3M as a part of their bookshelf games series. In most versions, the theme of the game is investing in hotel chains. In the 1990s Hasbro edition, the hotel...
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- 90 min (54 hs )
RuneQuest
RuneQuest is a fantasy role-playing game first published in 1978 by Chaosium, created by Steve Perrin based on the mythical world of Glorantha devised by Greg Stafford. It was notable for its original gaming system, designed around a percentile die...
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Diplomacy
Diplomacy is a strategic board game created by Allan B. Calhamer in 1954 and released commercially in 1959. Its main distinctions from most board wargames are its negotiation phases (players spend much of their time forming and betraying alliances...
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- 7
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- 12 yr. (12 yr )
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- 120 min (72 hs )
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Titan
Titan is a fantasy board game for two to six players, designed by Jason McAllister and David A. Trampier. It was first published in 1980 by Gorgonstar, a small company created by the designers. Soon afterward, the rights were licensed to Avalon Hill...
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RoboRally
RoboRally is a board game originally published in 1994 by Wizards of the Coast (WotC). It was designed in 1985 by Richard Garfield, who would later create the card game Magic: The Gathering. The game and its expansions received a total of four...
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- 2
Minimum age (years):
- 10 yr. (10 yr )
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- 1994
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- 120 min (72 hs )
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Midway
For other games with this title, see Midway (game)
Midway is a wargame by Avalon Hill which simulates the Battle of Midway, during World War II. The game is designed for 2 or more players and details the battle primarily at the squadron level.
The...
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- 2
Minimum age (years):
- 10 yr. (10 yr )
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Ambush!
Ambush! is a man-to-man wargame developed by Avalon Hill. It was released under Avalon's Victory Games label and was developed by Eric Lee Smith and John Butterfield. In 1984, Ambush! won the Origins Award for Best 20th Century Boardgame of 1983. It...
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Up Front
Up Front is a World War II card-based wargame. It was designed by Courtney F. Allen and published by Avalon Hill in 1983. Hasbro now owns the franchise which is currently (as of 2003) licensed to Multi-Man Publishing.
Subtitled The Squad Leader Card...
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Civilization
Civilization is a board game designed by Francis Tresham, published in Britain in 1980 by Hartland Trefoil (later by Gibson Games), and in the US in 1981 by Avalon Hill. The game typically takes eight or more hours to play and is for two to seven...
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- 2
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- 12 yr. (12 yr )
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- 1980
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- 180 min (108 hs )
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- 360 min (216 hs )
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Axis and Allies
Axis & Allies is a popular series of World War II strategy board games, with nearly two million copies printed. Originally designed by Larry Harris and published by Nova Game Designs in 1981, the game was republished by the Milton Bradley Company in...
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- 2
Minimum age (years):
- 12 yr. (12 yr )
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- 1984
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- 120 min (72 hs )
Maximum playing time:
- 1,200 min (720 hs )
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TwixT
TwixT is a two-player abstract strategy game invented by Alex Randolph. It is a member of the connection game family, along with games such as Hex, Havannah, Y, PÜNCT and *Star.
3M originally published TwixT as part of its Bookshelf Games line;...
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Advanced Third Reich
Advanced Third Reich (A3R - 1992) is a board wargame originally designed by Bruce Harper and published by Avalon Hill, who then sold the license to Hasbro. The game was marketed as "the ultimate World War II strategy game". A3R, a rewrite of Rise...
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Starship Troopers
Starship Troopers is a board wargame by Avalon Hill based on the novel of the same name by Robert A. Heinlein. It was originally released in 1976 and designed by Randall C. Reed. Avalon Hill redesigned and re-released a "movie" version (entitled...
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B-17, Queen of the Skies
B-17, Queen of the Skies is a solitaire board wargame published in the US in 1983 by Avalon Hill and is a simulation of the experiences of a single B-17F Flying Fortress Bomber flying with the 8th Air Force in World War 2. The game was designed for...
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Wooden Ships and Iron Men
Wooden Ships and Iron Men is a naval board wargame in which the players simulate combat by sailing ships of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The game was originally published by Battleline Publications in 1974 and republished by Avalon Hill...
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Richthofen's War
Richthofen's War was Avalon Hill's board wargame treatment of the air war over France during World War I. It was published in 1972.
The First World War marked the dawn of modern warfare and the first use of airplanes in combat. Richthofen's War was...
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Squander
Squander (written as "$QUANDER" on the box and in the rules) is an Avalon Hill board game published in 1965. It is based loosely on the game Monopoly, but in reverse. As in Monopoly, players roll dice and move around a board, encountering...
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Risk 2210 A.D.
Risk 2210 A.D. is a 2-5 player board game by Avalon Hill that is a futuristic variant of the classic board game Risk. Risk 2210 A.D. was designed by Rob Daviau and Craig Van Ness and first released in 2001. In 2002, Risk 2210 A.D. won the Origins...
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Minimum playing time:
- 240 min (144 hs )
Cosmic Encounter
Cosmic Encounter is a science fiction-themed strategy board game, designed by "Future Pastimes" (collectively, Peter Olotka, Jack Kittredge and Bill Eberle, with Bill Norton) and originally published by Eon Games in 1977. In it, each player takes...
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Advanced Squad Leader
Advanced Squad Leader (ASL) is a tactical-level board wargame, originally marketed by Avalon Hill Games, that simulates actions of approximately company or battalion size in World War II. It is a detailed game system for two or more players (with...
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Axis and Allies: Europe
Axis & Allies: Europe is a spin off of the original Axis & Allies that focuses game play on the European Theatre of World War II. Germany, the Soviet Union, Great Britain (U.K.), and the United States (U.S.) are controlled by the players of this...
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White Bear and Red Moon
White Bear and Red Moon (WBRM) is a fantasy board wargame set in the peculiar fantasy world of Glorantha, invented by Greg Stafford and published in 1975. Greg set up the Chaosium game publishing company purely to produce and market this game,...
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PanzerBlitz
PanzerBlitz is a tactical-scale board wargame of armoured combat set in the Eastern Front of the Second World War. The hex-grid map comes in several pieces to be fit together for various scenarios. As the board edges are mutually compatible, the...
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- 2
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- 10 yr. (10 yr )
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The Longest Day
The Longest Day is the name of a 1980 board wargame designed by Randall Reed and published by Avalon Hill. It simulates the D-Day invasion and subsequent Normandy breakout, with scenarios for the attack on Cherbourg, the Cobra Offensive, the Mortain...
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Squad Leader
Squad Leader is a tactical level board wargame originally published by Avalon Hill in 1977. It was designed by Hall of Fame game designer John Hill and focuses on infantry combat in Europe during World War II. One of the most complex wargames of its...
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Age of Renaissance
Age of Renaissance is a board game designed by Don Greenwood and Jared Scarborough and published by Avalon Hill in 1996. The game is for 3-6 players and the box claims that the game should take 2-6 hours to play, though as with any serious...
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1914
1914 was a board wargame published by the Avalon Hill game company in 1968 and designed by James F. Dunnigan. It was a corps-level simulation of the first few weeks of World War I on the western front. The game came in an 11" × 14" cardboard box,...
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History of the World
This article is about the board game. For a description of the world's history, see History of the world. For the Mel Brooks movie of similar name see History of the World, Part I.
History of the World (often abbreviated "HotW") is a board game...
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Kremlin
Kremlin is a board game parody of Soviet government. The game takes its name from the Moscow Kremlin, the physical location of the main Soviet government offices. It was designed by Urs Hostettler and released in 1988 by Avalon Hill. In 1989,...
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The Russian Campaign
The Russian Campaign is an award winning strategic board wargame of the Eastern Front during World War II, during the period 1941-45. The unit scale is German Corps and Russian Armies and roughly covers the Berlin to Gorki region (west to east) and...
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War at Sea
War at Sea is a strategic board wargame depicting the naval war in the Atlantic during World War II, published by Jedko Games in 1975, and subsequently republished by Avalon Hill in 1976 and more recently by L2 Design Group in 2007.
It is also the...
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Blitzkrieg
Blitzkrieg was an early strategic-level wargame first published in 1965 by the Avalon Hill Game Company. The game depicted a war between two fictional countries on the map of an imaginary continent. The level of military technology was that of the...
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Empires in Arms
Empires in Arms is an out-of-print board game by Harry Rowland, published by the Australian Design Group in 1983. It was licenced to the Avalon Hill Game Company (now a subsidiary of Hasbro Inc.) in 1985. It was nominated for the Charles S. Roberts...
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Napoleon
Napoleon is a strategic-level board wargame covering the Waterloo Campaign of the Hundred Days after Napoleon's return from Elba starting with the French invasion of Belgium on June 15, 1815. Each turn is one-third of a day (with only one player...
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Axis and Allies: D-Day
Axis & Allies: D-Day is the fifth version of the strategy board-game Axis & Allies, released in early June 2004 as a celebration of the 60th anniversary of D-Day during World War II. It lets 2-3 players recreate Operation Overlord or D-Day scenarios...
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Kingmaker
Kingmaker is a board game created by Andrew McNeil. It was first produced in Britain by PhilMar Ltd. in 1974. The second edition was produced by Avalon Hill in the United States in 1975. This version was somewhat different from the original, as it...
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- 2
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Jutland
Jutland is a wargame designed by Jim Dunnigan and published by Avalon Hill Game Company in 1967. The game covers the Battle of Jutland, fought in May and June 1916 between the British Grand Fleet and the German High Seas Fleet off the Jutland coast...
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- 1967
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Risk Godstorm
Risk Godstorm is a Risk variant board game published by Avalon Hill and designed by Mike Selinker with developers Richard Baker and Michael Donais. The cultures of the Celts, Norse, Greeks, Egyptians, and Babylonians clash for supremacy of the...
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Betrayal at House on the Hill
Betrayal at House on the Hill is a board game published by Avalon Hill. Players all begin as allies, exploring a haunted house filled with dangers, traps, items and Omens. As players explore the mansion, new room tiles are chosen at random;...
Number of players:
- 3
Minimum age (years):
- 10 yr. (10 yr )
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Battle Cry
Battle Cry is a board wargame based on the American Civil War, designed by Richard Borg and published by Avalon Hill in 2000. While superficially similar to conventional board wargames, it borrows from miniatures wargaming with its use of plastic...
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Rise and Decline of the Third Reich
Rise and Decline of the Third Reich or more commonly Third Reich is a grand strategy wargame covering the European theater of World War II designed by John Prados, and released in 1974 by Avalon Hill. Huge in scope, players take on the roles of all...
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Circus Maximus
Circus Maximus is a chariot-racing board game originally published by Battleline Publications in 1979, but better known for the 1980 Avalon Hill edition. It was designed by Michael E. Matheny with Don Greenwood working on the second edition. Up to...
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Hoity Toity
Hoity Toity is a multiplayer board game invented by Klaus Teuber and as of 2008 published in USA by Überplay. The original German name is Adel Verpflichtet (meaning "Noblesse oblige"). It was also published in the USA under the name By Hook or Crook...
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- 2
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- 12 yr. (12 yr )
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1776
1776 is an Avalon Hill board wargame originally published in 1974 on the American Revolution. Campaign game plus scenarios covering the invasion of Canada, the Saratoga campaign, Greenes Southern campaign, and the Yorktown campaign.
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Origins of World War II
Origins of World War II is a 1971 board wargame published by Avalon Hill, based on 1935-39 international diplomacy. Participants represent five major nations of World War II; expertise at negotiations and diplomacy is important to success at the...
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Nexus Ops
Nexus Ops is a board game, designed by Charlie Catino and released in 2005 by Avalon Hill. Players attempt to mine the fictitious metal "rubium" on a moon far off in space. There are various alien species that will mine and fight for the players,...
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Midway
For other games with this title, see Midway (game)
Midway is a wargame published by Avalon Hill as part of the Smithsonian American History Series. The game simulates the World War II Battle of Midway and is primarily designed for two players.
The...
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- 2
Minimum age (years):
- 10 yr. (10 yr )
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Air Baron
Air Baron is an economic strategy game published by Avalon Hill in 1996. Despite its family-oriented marketing, Air Baron plays far more like a wargame than a typical family money-driven game like Monopoly. Air Baron is for two to six players,...
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- 2
Minimum age (years):
- 10 yr. (10 yr )
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Guadalcanal
For other games with this title, see Guadalcanal (game)
Guadalcanal is a board wargame published by Avalon Hill as part of the Smithsonian American History Series. The game simulates World War II naval battles near the Solomon Islands and is...
Number of players:
- 2
Minimum age (years):
- 10 yr. (10 yr )
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Battle of the Bulge
For other games with this title, see Battle of the Bulge (game)
Battle of the Bulge is a board wargame published by Avalon Hill as part of the Smithsonian American History Series. The game simulates World War II battle of the same name and is...
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- 2
Minimum age (years):
- 10 yr. (10 yr )
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Minimum playing time:
- 120 min (72 hs )
D-Day
D-Day is a board wargame published by Avalon Hill first in 1961 and later re-released in 1965, 1971, 1977 and 1991.
An operational/strategic simulation of the Western Front between June and September, 1944, the game simulates the invasion by the...
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Victory in the Pacific
Victory in the Pacific is a board wargame published by the Avalon Hill game company in 1977. Based on the game system first used in War at Sea, also published by Avalon Hill, the game deals with the Pacific Theater of Operations of World War II. A...
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Afrika Korps
Afrika Korps is a two-player wargame published by the Avalon Hill Game Company in 1963 and then re-released in 1965 and 1977. Played on a mapboard depicting the northern coastline of Africa, the game follows Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps and their...
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Air Assault on Crete
Air Assault on Crete is a wargame that was first published by the Avalon Hill game company in 1977. It includes a bonus game entitled Invasion of Malta-1942. Each game has its own pieces and mapboards and shares a minimum of equipment between them....
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Anzio
Anzio is a board wargame published by the Avalon Hill game company first in 1969 and again in 1971, 1974, and 1978. The title is misleading as the game is not an operational-level treatment of the Battle of Anzio but is in fact a strategic level...
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Bowl Bound
Bowl Bound was a board game originally marketed in 1973 by Baltimore-based Avalon Hill. Bowl Bound was marketed with an endorsement by Sports Illustrated.
The game allowed 32 select NCAA I-A teams from 1960 to 1970, including a few Ivy League squads...
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Arab-Israeli Wars
Arab-Israeli Wars is a tactical level wargame published in the US in 1977 by Avalon Hill. It simulates at a tactical level various battles in the Suez Crisis, Six Day War and Yom Kippur War. It is designed to be played by two players; game length...
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Down with the King
Down With the King is a political card game for 2-6 players produced by Avalon Hill in 1981. Each player takes the role of a noble in the fictional nation of Fandonia during the European "Baroque age" (roughly 1600-1750), and by diplomacy, betrayal,...
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Achtung Spitfire!
Achtung Spitfire! is a strategy computer game released by Avalon Hill in 1997. It is a turn-based air combat game taking place during the early half of World War II, including fixed-wing aircraft, air battles and operations by Luftwaffe, Royal Air...
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Advanced Civilization
Advanced Civilization is the expansion game for the board game Civilization, published in 1991 by Avalon Hill. Ownership of the original game is necessary to play. Both games are no longer published, following the dissolution of the original Avalon...
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- 2
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- 12 yr. (12 yr )
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Introduced:
- 1991
Minimum playing time:
- 300 min (180 hs )
Maximum playing time:
- 7,200 min (4320 hs )
