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The Awards Story

The 1996 Charles S. Roberts Awards were presented at Origins '97 in Columbus, Ohio.

Best Pre-World War II Board Game
Buena Vista (XTR)
Champion Hill (The Gamers)
&Fields of Glory (MiH)
Great War at Sea (Avalanche)
Great War in the Near East (XTR)

Best World War II Board Game
Gross Deutschland (The Gamers)
Hube's Pocket (The Gamers)
Krieg! (Decision Games)
SS Panzer (XTR)
&Wave of Terror (XTR)

Best Wargaming Graphics
Army of the Heartland (COA)
&Gross Deutschland (The Gamers)
Samurai (GMT Games)
SS Panzer (XTR)
Zornsdorf (COA)

Best Professional Game Magazine
&Command (XTR)
The General (Avalon Hill)
Operations (The Gamers)
Strategy & Tactics (Decision Games)
Zone of Control

Best Amateur Game Magazine
&Berg's Review of Games (BROG; Richard Berg) 
Line of Departure
Paper Wars
Perfidious Albion
Relative Range

Best Game Review or Analysis Article
&A Fleet Squandered (Command)
   by Dworschak
Great War in the Near East (Command)
   by Raicer
SS Panzer (Command)
   by Rothwell

James F. Dunnigan Award for Playability & Design
Rick Barber
Dirk Blenneman
&Ty Bomba
Chris Perello
Ted Raicer

Hall of Fame
Ted Raicer

& = Awarded Best in that Category; multiple winners in a single Category indicates a tie.

1996: That Was the Wargaming Year That Was! That