The Awards Story
In 1987, The Charles S. Roberts Awards as we know them
today were established by Rodger B. MacGowan. In this same year, what was up
until then known as The Charles S. Roberts Awards became "The Origins
Awards" under the sponsorship of the Academy of Adventure Gaming. The Charles S. Roberts Awards remain, as they have always been,
not connected with any company or organization. They are completely independent
awards nominated and voted for by wargaming hobbyists.
The 1987 Charles S. Roberts Awards were presented at Origins '88.
Best Pre-World War II Board Game
Abensberg /
Eckmuehl (3W)
Britannia (Avalon Hill)
La Bataille d' Espagnol-Talavera (Clash of
Arms)
Shogun (Milton Bradley)
&Shot and Shell (3W)
Best
World War II Board Game
Battle for Moscow (GDW)
Kanev (3W)
Patton Goes to War (3W)
&Raid on St. Nazaire
(Avalon Hill)
Scorched Earth (GDW)
Best Post-World War II Board Game
&Central America (Victory)
Drive on Frankfurt (Pacific Rim)
Korea: The Mobile
War (3W)
&Seventh Fleet (Victory)
Team Yankee (GDW)
Best Pre-Twentieth Century Computer
Wargame
&Borodino:
1812 (Kretek)
Pirates! (MicroProse)
Rebel Charge at Chickamauga (SSI)
Shiloh:
Grant's Trial in the West (SSI)
Sons of Liberty (SSI)
Best Twentieth Century Computer
Wargame
Airborne Ranger (MicroProse)
Battle Cruiser (SSI)
Halls of
Montezuma (SSG)
Long Lance (Sim Can)
&Panzer Strike (SSI)
&Project: Stealth
Fighter (Microprose)
Best Wargame Graphics
Kanev
(3W)
Moscow 1941 (TSR/SPI)
&Raid on St. Nazaire (Avalon Hill)
Scorched Earth (GDW)
Best Professional Game Magazine
Battleplan
Counterattack
Fire & Movement
The General
&Strategy & Tactics
The Wargamer
Best Amateur Game Magazine
The Broadside
Canadian Wargamers Journal
ETO: Europa Newsletter
On All Fronts
The Strategist
&Volunteers
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Best Game
Review or Analysis Article
&Central America (Fire and Movement)
Raid on St. Nazaire (Wargamer)
Rebel Sabers
(Wargamer)
Russia (Fire and Movement)
Squad Leader Series: 10 Years After (Fire and Movement)
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Best Historical / Opinion / Variant /
Scenario / Interview Article
&Aesthetics, Function and History in Wargame Graphics (Wargamer;
by Rodger B. MacGowan)
Axis and Allies
(BattlePlan)
Craig Taylor: Interview (Fire and Movement)
Revolution Against the
Revolution (The General)
Role Simulators (Fire and Movement)
Hall of Fame
Richard Berg: Designer and founder of Berg's Review of
Games. Designer of:
 | 13: The Colonies in Revolt (S&T-TSR) |
| 1862 (SD) |
| 1863 (GMT) |
| Africanus |
| Baton Rouge (S&T-3W) |
| Battle for North Africa |
| Battles of Waterloo |
| Birth of a Nation (3W) |
| Blackbeard (Avalon Hill) |
| Bloody April (SPI) |
| Campaign for North Africa (SPI) |
| Chancellorsville (Clash of Arms) |
| Chicken of the Sea (GPG) |
| Conquerors (including The Macedonians and The Romans), The |
| Conquistador, 1983 (SPI, AH) |
| Consul for Rome |
| Corinth (SPI) |
| Crusades, The, 1978 |
| Dead of Winter (SD) |
| Desert Fox, The (SPI) |
| Devil's Horsemen, The, 1998 |
| Diadochoi |
| Dictator |
| Druid (West End Games) |
| Famous Victory, A (MiH) |
| Fields of Glory (MiH) |
| First Blood (SD) |
| Freedom in the Galaxy |
| Geronimo, 1995 (Avalon Hill) |
| Gleam of Bayonets, A (SPI-TSR) |
| Glory |
| Gondor (SPI) |
| Great Battles of Alexander Deluxe Edition, The |
| Great Battles of Alexander, The |
| Great Battles of Julius Caesar, The |
| Guns of Cedar Creek, The (SD) |
| Hastings, 1066 (S&T-TSR) |
| Hooker and Lee (SPI) |
| Horse Soldiers, The (S&T-3W) |
| Juggernaut |
| Julius Caesar (TSR-SPI) |
| Kingdom for a Horse, 1998 |
| Lion of the North |
| Manchu (S&T-3W) |
| Murfreesboro (Yaquinto) |
| Pyrrhic Victory |
| Rebel Sabers (SPI-TSR) |
| Rio Grande (S&T/DG) |
| SPI Baseball, 1980 (SPI) |
| SPI Football, 1980 (SPI) |
| SPQR |
| Samurai |
| Shiloh (West End Games) |
| Shogun Triumphant (XTR) |
| Sideshow (S&T-3W) |
| Siege of Constantinople, 1978 |
| Soldiers of the Queen (S&T-TSR) |
| South Mountain (West End Games) |
| Terrible Swift Sword (1st Ed, SPI; 2nd Ed, TSR) |
| Three Days of Gettysburg, The |
| Vera Cruz (SPI) |
| War Elephant |
| War Galley |
| War of the Rebellion (DG) |
| War of the Ring |
| Waterloo (Phalanx) |
