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The Awards Story

For the first time, the Charles S. Roberts Awards were presented Salvatore Vasta, a gentleman gamer if there ever was one and busy worker on Totaler Krieg, Totaler Krieg 2nd Edition, and Dai Senso (which takes that game system to the Pacific Theater). They were presented at the World Boardgaming Championships in Baltimore, Maryland on July 29 - August 3, 2002.

Best Pre-World War II Boardgame
Clash of Giants (GMT Games)
Grants Takes Command (Multi-Man Publishing)
Highway to the Kremlin (Operational Studies Group)
Red Badge of Courage (GMT Games)
►Wilderness War (GMT Games)

Best World War II Boardgame
►Barbarossa: Army Group North (GMT Games)
Fallschirmjaeger (The Gamers)
Guderian's Blitzkrieg II (The Gamers)
Pacific Victory (Columbia Games)
Zero! (GMT Games)

Best Modern Era Boardgame
Back to Iraq, S&T #208 (Decision Games)
►When Dragons Fight (XTR/Command #54)
Yom Kippour (Vae Victis #37)

Best Wargame Graphics
Fear God and Dread Nought (Clash of Arms)
Heroes of the Soviet Union (Avalanche)
La Bataille d'Orthez (Clash of Arms)
►Wilderness War (GMT Games)
Zero! (GMT Games)

Best DTP-Produced Boardgame
Arginussae (Markham Designs)
Confederate Rails (BSO Games)
Guadalajara 1937 (Markham Designs)
►Longbow (BSO Games)
Patton's Finest (Microgame Design Group)

Best Magazine-Published Boardgame
When Dragons Fight, Command #54 (XTR Games)
Twilight of the Hapsburgs, S&T (Decision Games)
►War of 1812, S&T (Decision Games)
France 1940, Vae Victis

Best Pre-20th Century Era Computer Wargame
►Europa Universalis

Best Game Review or Game Analysis
►Hube's Pocket Analysis by Tony Zbaraschuk (Operations #41)
Rome at War: Hannibal at Bay by Peter Perla with Michael Markowitz (Paper Wars #41)
GMT's Risorgimento 1859 by Walt O'Hara (Paper Wars #40)
Ukraine '43 by Henry Lowood (Paper Wars #40)

Best Historical or Scenario Article
►The Boer War, 1899-1902 by Joe Miranda (S&T #200)

James F. Dunnigan Award
Joe Youst - artist/designer
Mark Simonitch - designer
Ted Raicer - designer
►Volko Ruhnke - designer, Wilderness War

Clausewitz Award HALL OF FAME
►INDUCTEE: Joseph Miranda, designer; editor of Strategy & Tactics magazine

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
Line of Departure, James Werbaneth
Panzerschreck, Minden Games
Simulacrum, John Kula

► = Awarded Best in that Category
 

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