The Awards Story
The 1978 Charles S. Roberts Awards were presented at Origins '79 in Chester,
Pennsylvania, June 22-24, 1979.
Best Pre-Twentieth
Century Game
Agincourt (SPI)
La Bataille de Preusisch Eylau (Marshal Enterprises)
Napoleon at Bay (Operational Studies Group)
&Source of the Nile (Discovery)
Stonewall
Best
Twentieth Century Game
Air Assault on Crete (Avalon Hill)
Cross of Iron (Avalon Hill)
Operation Crusader (GDW)
The Next War (SPI)
&To the Green Fields Beyond (SPI)
Best
Fantasy / Futuristic Game
Iliad (Yaquinto)
Gamma World (TSR, Inc.)
&Mayday (Game Designers Workshop)
Objective Moscow (SPI)
Swords and Sorcery
Best Graphics and Physical Systems
&Cross of Iron (Avalon Hill)
La Battaille de Preusisch Eylau (Marshal Enterprises)
Operation Crusader (Game Designers Workshop)
The Next War (SPI)
Best
Amateur Game
La Bataille de Preusisch Eylau (Marshal Enterprises)
&Source of the Nile (Discovery Games)
Tokyo Express
Best Professional Magazine
&Fire & Movement (Rodger MacGowan / Baron Publishing)
MOVES (SPI)
Strategy & Tactics (SPI)
The General (Avalon Hill)
Best Amateur Magazine
&Perfidious Albion (Charles Vasey)
Signal (John Mansfield)
Swabbers
Hall of Fame
John Hill: founder of Conflict Game Company; Game Designer of the Squad
Leader Series of games. Designer of: