The Awards Story
The Charles S. Roberts Awards were announced at MonsterGame.Con in
Tempe, AZ in June or 2006 and presented
at the World Boardgaming Championships.
Best Pre-World
War II Boardgame
►Bonaparte at Marengo
(Simmons Games)
Crusader Rex (Columbia Games)
Flying Colors (GMT Games LLC)
Triumph of Chaos (Clash of Arms)
Under the Lily Banners (GMT Games LLC)
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Best World War II
Boardgame
ASL Starter Kit #2 (MMP)
►Empire of the Sun (GMT Games LLC)
Fire in the Sky (MMP/The Gamers)
Silent War (Compass Games)
The Mighty Endeavor (MMP/The Gamers)
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Best Modern
Era Boardgame
Crossfire Hurricane (Firefight Games)
Hornet Leader II (Dan Verrsen Games)
Lightning War on Terror (Decision Games)
►Twilight Struggle (GMT Games LLC)
Warplan Dropshot:
Endgames (Schutze Games)
Best
Magazine-Published Boardgame
Bittereinder (Against
The Odds #13)
►Chennault's
First Fight (Against The Odds #12)
The Big Push (Against The Odds #11)
The Old Contemptibles (Strategy & Tactics
#228/DG)
Vinegar Joe's War (Strategy & Tactics #227/DG)
Best Desk Top
Published (DTP)-Produced Boardgame
Carolina Rebels (BSO Games)
►Death in the Trenches (Schutze
Games)
Deguello at Dawn (Khyber Pass Games)
Sun of York (Relative Range)
Turning Point (BSO Games)
Best Wargame
Graphics
(tie)
Chennault's First Fight (Against the
Odds #12)
►Empire of the Sun (GMT Games LLC)
►Fire in the Sky (MMP/The
Gamers)
Four Lost Battles (OSG)
Silent War (Compass Games)
Triumph of Chaos (Clash of Arms)
Best
Professional Wargame Magazine
►Against
The Odds
C3i Magazine (RBM Studio)
Operations (MMP/The Gamers)
Strategy & Tactics (Decision Games)
Vae Victis
Best Amateur
Wargame Magazine
The Boardgamer (Bruce
Monnin)
Line of Departure (James Werbaneth)
►Panzerschreck
(Gary Graber, Minden Games) Panzerschreck,
effective 2006 CSR Awards, will be classified as a Professional Magazine.
Best Game
Review or Game Analysis
Bonaparte at Marengo, Matthew Kirschenbaum
(Paper Wars #60)
►Empire of the Sun Strategy
Concepts, Mark Herman (C3i #17)
La Grande Guerre, Adam Starkweather (Paper Wars #58)
My Philosophy Behind the Card Driven Game System,
Mark Herman (C3i #17)
Rise of the Roman Republic, Steven A. Carey (C3i #16)
Sweden Fights On, Mark Kaczmarek (C3i #17)
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Best
Historical or Scenario Article
Honorable Mention (no winner
declared)
►Battle of Cheriton, 1644 - New Battle Module for
This Accursed Civil War, Ben Hull (C3i #17)
Khan: The Rise of the Mongol Empire, Joseph Miranda (Strategy & Tactics
#229)
Lest Darkness Fall: Rome in Crisis, AD 235-285, Ty
Bomba (Strategy & Tactics #234)
Operation Downfall & Allied Airpower, Brian Todd Carey (Strategy & Tactics
#230)
Strategy Concepts in Empire of the Sun, Mark Herman (C3i #17)
The Big Push, Roger C. Nord (Against the Odds
#11)
James F.
Dunnigan Award
►Ananda
Gupta and Jason Matthews, Designers, Twilight Struggle (GMT Games LLC)
Bowen Simmons, Designer, Bonaparte at Marengo (Simmons Games)
Craig Grando, Graphic Artist, Against the Odds
magazine
Mark Herman, Designer, Empire of the Sun (GMT Games LLC)
Brien Miller, Designer, Silent War (Compass
Games)
Clausewitz
Award HALL OF FAME
The 2005 CSR Awards did not declare an inductee
for the Clausewitz Hall of Fame
Best Pre-20th
Century Era Computer Wargame
►Crown of Glory (Matrix
Games)
Horse & Musket 2: Prussia's Glory (Shrapnel Games)
Tin Soldiers: Julius Caesar (Matrix Games)
Campaign Waterloo (HPS Siimulations)
Best 20th
Century Era Computer Wargame
Honorable Mention (no winner
declared)
Gary Grigsby's World At War (Matrix Games)
War Plan Orange: Dreadnoughts in the Pacific 1922-1930 (Matrix Games)
Flashpoint Germany (Matrix Games)
► = Awarded Best in that
Category; when more than one is awarded in a category, the result was a
statistical tie.
Board wargames published in 2005
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Alea magazine (Ludopress)
 | #30: Donde No se
Ponía el Sol: Los
Tercios, 1490-1690 |
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Against the Odds magazine (ATO)
| #11: The Big Push |
| #12: Chennault's First
Fight |
| #13: Bittereinder
(remake) |
| #14: War in the Aegean/Narvik
1940 (remakes) |
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ASL Oktoberfest
| ASLOK (ASL Oktoberfest) XX Anniversary Scenario
Pack (Advanced Squad Leader compatible) |
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|
Avalanche
| Alsace 1945 |
| Beyond Normandy (in the Panzer Grenadier series) |
| Bomb Alley (in the Second World War at Sea series,
reprint) |
| Gazala 1942 |
| Leyte Gulf |
| Panzer Grenadier: Eastern Front Deluxe Edition
(reprint) |
| Red God of War: The Soviet Operation Mars, 1942 |
| Soldier Raj |
| Strike South (in the Second World War at Sea
series) |
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|
Bayonet Games
| Warfighter 101:
Movement to Contact |
|
| BSO
| Carolina Rebels |
| Turning Point |
| Zama: Hannibal
vs Scipio, 202 B.C. |
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|
Canons en Carton
| Alésia 52 B.C |
| Dürrenstein and
Schöngraben 1805 (in the
Jours de Gloire
series) |
| Haslach and
Elchingen 1805 (in the
Jours de Gloire series) |
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|
Clash of Arms
| La Bataille de les
Quatre Bras (in the La
Bataille series, reprint) |
| Lobositz (in the
Battles from the Age of Reason series) |
| The Med (in theStruggle
for Europe series) |
| Triumph of Chaos |
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|
Columbia Games
| Crusader Rex |
| Hammer of the Scots (reprint) |
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Command and Strategy magazine (UGG)
| #2: Pearl Harbor/Tank Action |
| #3: Pearl Harbor/Operation
Kadesh: the Suez crisis 1956 |
| #4: Pearl Harbor/Comrade Koba |
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Compass Games
| Bitter End (reprint) |
| Silent War |
|
| Cool Stuff Unlimited
| Doro Nawa (reprint) |
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Critical Hit
| Basic Game 1a: Screaming Eagles (in the Advanced
Tobruk System) |
| Basic Game 2: Streets of Stalingrad (in the
Advanced Tobruk System) |
| Blood and Iron (in the Advanced
Tobruk System) |
| Devils in the Woods (scenario/map
pack,Advanced Squad Leader compatible) |
| Hero Pax #3 (scenario
pack, Advanced Squad Leader compatible) |
| Semper
Fi (in the Advanced
Tobruk System) |
| Sudden Full Contact (scenario/map pack, Advanced
Squad Leader compatible) |
| Stalin’s Fury (scenario/map pack, Advanced Squad
Leader compatible) |
| Torch to Tunisia (expansion pack for the Advanced
Tobruk System) |
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|
Days of Wonder
| Memoir'44 Expansion Pack: Eastern Front |
| Memoir'44 Expansion Pack: Terrain pack |
| Memoir'44 Expansion Pack: Winter/Desert map |
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|
Decision Games
| Lightning War on Terror |
| Wacht am
Rhein II (update) |
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|
Mike DeSanto
| The Battle of Brandywine Creek (free game) |
| The Battle of Germantown (free game) |
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|
Dubious Games
| Khan of Khans (free game, expansion for
Chevauchee) |
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|
Eagle Games
| Conquest of the Empire |
|
| East Side Gamers
| Dezign Pak I (scenario
pack, Advanced Squad Leader compatible) |
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|
Fanatic Enterprises
| Barbarossa North
Scenario Pack (Advanced Squad Leader compatible) |
| Luzon Scenario Pack (Advanced Squad Leader
compatible) |
|
|
Fiery Dragon
| Final Frontier (reprint) |
| Freikorps (reprint) |
| Marcher Lords (reprint) |
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Firefight Games
| Crossfire Hurricane: the Battle of Long Tan |
| Eastern Operation: Japan's Conquest of Hawaii |
| Hitler's Stalingrad: the Battle of Breslau |
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|
Franc Tireur
| From the Cellar Scenario Pack (Advanced Squad
Leader compatible) |
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Friendly Fire
| Friendly Fire I Scenario Pack (Advanced Squad
Leader compatible) |
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|
GMT Games
| Alesia (in the Great
Battles of History series) |
| Carthage |
| Empire of the Sun |
| Flying Colors |
| Grand Illusion |
| Manifest Destiny |
| Men of Iron |
| Savannah (in the American Revolutionary War
series) |
| Twilight Struggle |
| Under the Lily Banners |
| Wellington |
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|
Grenier Games
| Distant Foreign Fields: The Great War 1914-1918 |
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|
Guild of Blades
| Africa 1483 |
| African 30 Years War: Chad vs
Libya |
| Battle of Thermopylae |
| Coral Sea |
| Fallen Blackhawk: Somalia |
| Jutland |
| Nitrate War |
| Pantheons: War of the Mythos |
| Ramsses' War: Egypt
vs the Hittites |
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|
Hasbro
| Monsters Menace America (update of Monsters Ravage
America) |
| Nexus Ops |
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|
Heat of Battle
| Firefights II (scenario/map pack, Advanced Squad
Leader compatible) |
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|
HMS/GRD
| Wavell's War
(expansion for War in the Desert and Balkan Front) |
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|
Informic Games
| Turn or burn (free game) |
|
|
Khyber Pass Games
| Deguelo at Dawn |
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|
Lone Canuck Publishing
| 7th SS Gerbirgsdivision
Prinz Eugen
(scenario pack, Advanced Squad Leader compatible) |
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|
Lost Battalion Games
| Battlegroup |
| Sergeants! in the Sand (in the Sergeants! series) |
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|
Matrix Games
| Lock and Load: Band of Heroes |
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|
Minden Games
| Battleships at War |
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|
MMP
| Advanced Squad Leader Starter Kit #2 - Guns! (in
the Advanced Squad Leader series) |
| Beyond Valor (in the Advanced Squad Leader series,
reprint) |
| Bloody Ridge (in the Tactical Combat Series) |
| Fire in the Sky |
| The Mighty Endeavor (in the Standard Combat
series) |
| Target Arnhem: Across
6 Bridges |
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|
Perry Moore
| Die Angelschlacht
(update of The Vital Ground) |
| Panzerschlacht: Blood
and Armor on the Hungarian Plains, Oct. 1944 |
| Slim River: Armor Breakthrough in Malaysia |
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|
Matthew Nadelhaft
| Oh No, There Goes Tokyo! (free game) |
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Naval Warfare Simulations
| Nights of Fury - Guadalcanal Naval Battles |
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| Nexus
| Wings of War: Burning
Drachens |
| Wings of War: Watch your Back |
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OSG
| Four Lost Battles |
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Panzerschreck magazine (Minden Games)
| #14: Race For The Vistula/Brandy
Station/The Mighty Hood |
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Brian Peterson
| Remember the Alamo (free game) |
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Phalanx Games
| The First World War (English language edition) |
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Pratzen Editions
| Le Vol de
l'Aigle |
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Red Sash Games
| Sport of Kings (in the Lace Wars series) |
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Relative Range
| Sun of York |
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Schutze Games
| Death in the Trenches |
| Warplan
Dropshot: Endgames |
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Sierra Madre Games
| Airships at War, 1914-1941 (reprint) |
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Simmons Games
| Bonaparte at Marengo |
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Strategy and Tactics magazine (Decision Games)
| #227: Vinegar Joe's War |
| #228: The Old Contemptibles |
| #229: Khan: The Rise Of The Mongol Empire, A.D.
1206 - 1295 |
| #230: Downfall: If the US Invaded Japan, 1945 |
| #231: French & Indian War |
| #232: Catherine the Great Solitaire |
| #233: Dagger Thrust: Patton or Montgomery,
September 1944 |
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UGG
| Assyrian Wars |
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|
Vae Victis
magazine (Histoire et Collections)
| #61: Ebre 1938 |
| #62: La Navas De
Tolosa 1212 |
| #63: Blitzkrieg 1940 |
| #64: Austerlitz 1805 (Partie
Nord) |
| #65: Frederic II |
| #66: WWII in Europe solitaire/Trojan War |
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Dan Verssen Games
| Carrier Air Group (expansion set for Hornet Leader
II) |
| Corsair Leader |
| Down in Flames WWI |
| Earth Gone Mad |
| Elves Under Hoof |
| Hornet Leader II |
| Special Forces |
| Star Force Terra (reprint) |
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| Warfrog
| Byzantium |
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West End Games
| Junta (reprint) |
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Worthington Games
| Clash for a Continent |
| For Honor And Glory |
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Your Move Games
| Battleground: Fantsay
Warfare |
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