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| List of wargame publishers |
| List of wargame publishers is an index of commercial companies that publish
wargames.
- Amarillo
Design Bureau (ADB) – publisher of Star Fleet Battles
(SFB), first produced 25 years ago, along with the related strategic game Federation & Empire. Their website is starfleetgames.com (http://www.starfleetgames.com)
- Avalanche Press
- Avalon Hill – the first publisher of board wargames, Avalon Hill
(AH) made many classic games, such as Squad Leader, Third Reich, and
Panzerblitz, bought out by Hasbro in the late 1990s
- Clash of Arms
- Columbia Games (originally Gamma Two Games) – the biggest
producer of "block games", using wooden blocks instead of cardboard counters
- Decision Games
- E-Mail Games – provides free wargaming and computerized referee/AI, via e-mail
- FASA – original publisher of the boardgame/minitures game BATTLETECH. Now
closed.
- The Gamers
- Game Designers' Workshop – Published
many popular wargames and role-playing games such as Traveller and Drang Nach
Osten!, disbanded 1996
- Game Research/Design – produced expansions for
Europa and eventually took on the series.
- Games Workshop – Publishers of a number of fantasy and
science fiction wargames and role-playing games.
- GMT Games – Probably the most prolific of the wargame companies in the
1990s and into 2003
- Historical Military Services – took over GRD in 2004
- L2 Design Group
- Mayfair Games – Original publisher of many "train" games, 18xx
series, & Empire Builder.
- Multi-Man Publishing – republishes Avalon Hill's
Advanced Squad Leader (ASL)
- New England
Simulations – A New Hampshire based group that has created
three games based on previously designed systems, with an emphasis on both graphics and design. Their web site is http://www.carpatina.com/nes/
- Operational Studies Group – This company is owned by Kevin Zucker, and focuses primarily on the
Napoleonic Era. The website is http://www.napoleongames.com
- Paradox Entertainment – Creator of such games
as the medieval wargames Europa Universalis I and II, WWII game Hearts of Iron, and Roman-era game Legion. Their website is
http://www.paradoxplaza.com
- Privateer Press – publishes Warmachine as well as the Iron Kingdoms d20 RPG setting.
- Simulations Publications, Inc.
(SPI) – another early—and very prolific—wargame publisher, SPI published the magazines Strategy & Tactics and Moves.
- Steve Jackson Games – Early successes were Ogre, Car Wars, and Illuminati. Pioneered the "microgame" format: tiny plastic boxes costing very little
money (US$4-6). Founded in 1982, their website is http://www.sjgames.com.
- Wargames
Research Group – Publisher of the popular De Bellis Multitudinis and De Bellis Antiquitatis rule sets for the ancient and medieval periods. Their website is http://www.richardbodleyscott.btinternet.co.uk/dbm.htm
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Wargaming | List of game manufacturers | List of board wargames |
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