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The Awards Story

For the first time, the Charles S. Roberts Awards were presented Bill Levay, an Executive Producer at Infogrames who was the "last guy to turn the lights out at Avalon Hill." They were presented at the World Boardgaming Championships (formerly "AvalonCon" and still run by Don Greenwood) in Baltimore, Maryland on June 27 - July 1, 2001.

Best Pre-World War II Boardgame
Austerlitz 1805 (GMT Games)
Battle Cry! (Hasbro)
Battle of Brandywine Creek (GMT Games)
&Drive on Paris (The Gamers)
This Terrible Sound (The Gamers)

Best World War II Boardgame
A Frozen Hell (The Gamers)
Pacific Victory (Columbia)
Panzergrenadier (Avalanche Press)
&Sicily (The Gamers)
&Ukraine '43 (GMT)

Best Wargame Graphics
&Brandywine Creek (GMT Games)
La Bataille d'Orthez (Clash of Arms)
Panzer Grenadier (Avalanche Press)
This Terrible Sound (The Gamers)
Ukraine '43 (GMT Games)

Best DTP-Produced Boardgame
Bittereinder (Microgame Design Group)
Cowpens (Markham Designs)
Hobkirk Hill (Markham Designs)
The Jewish War (KPG)
&Solomon Sea (Simulations Workshop)
Victory in Vietnam (Microgame Design Group)

Best Magazine-Published Boardgame
Forgotten Axis: the Finnish Campaign, S&T #199 (Decision Games)
Lemberg & Verdun: More Over the Top battles, S&T #198 (Decision Games)
Leuthen 1757, Vae Victis #32
Marengo 1800, Vae Victis #35
&Xenophon: March of the 10,000, S&T #203 (Decision Games)

Best Pre-20th Century Era Computer Wargame
Age of Empires series (Microsoft)
&Horse and Musket (Shrapnel Games)

Best 20th Century Era Computer Wargame
Combat Mission series (Big Time Software)
Normandy 44 (HPS)
Pacific War: The Matrix Project (Matrix Games)
&Steel Panthers World At War series (Matrix Games)

Best Game Review or Game Analysis
"AH's 1776," Paper Wars #35, Rod Coffey
&"COA's Summer Storm," Paper Wars #33, Greg Ullrich
"Der Welkrieg Series," Paper Wars #34, Pat Collins and David Newport
"Drive on Paris" (ConsimWorld - Game Reviews Central), Pat Hirtle
"Thoughts on Strategy: Paths of Glory," Paper Wars #34, Brandon Einhorn

Best Historical or Scenario Article
"The Dragon Breaks its Sleep," Europa Magazine #75, Mark Royer and Ching Wah Chin
"Operation Menace," The Europa Magazine #76, Arthur Goodwin
"Xenophon and the Persian Civil War," S&T #203, James Yates
&"French Foreign Legion," S&T 200, Timothy Kutta

James F. Dunnigan Award
Rick Barber - artist/designer
Richard Borg - designer, Battle Cry!
Dean Essig - designer
Dave Powell - designer/developer
&Mark Simonitch - designer, Ukraine '43

Clausewitz Award HALL OF FAME
INDUCTEE: Winston Hamilton (G/RD, posthumous)

Best Professional Wargame Magazine
C3i (GMT Games/RBM Studio)
Operations (The Gamers)
Paper Wars (Omega Games)
&Strategy & Tactics (Decision Games)
Vae Victis

Best Amateur Wargame Magazine
&The Boardgamer, Bruce Monnin
Panzerschreck, Minden Games
Simulacrum, John Kula

& = Awarded Best in that Category
 

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