The Awards Story
Once again, the "Charlies" were presented
at the World Boardgaming Championships in Baltimore,
Maryland on August 3 - August 8, 2004 at the Hunt Valley Inn in Hunt Valley,
Maryland.
Best Pre-World
War II Boardgame
►Age of Napoleon (Phalanx Games)
Liberty! (Columbia Games)
Rise of the Roman Republic (GMT Games)
Sun of Austerlitz (OSG)
Sweden Fights On (GMT Games)
Best World War II
Boardgame
A World at War
(GMT Games)
Ardennes '44 (GMT Games)
►Europe Engulfed (GMT Games)
Monty's Gamble (MMP / The Gamers)
The Russian Campaign (L2 Design Group)
Best Modern
Era Boardgame
Ignorant Armies
(Strategy & Tactics / Decision Games)
Korea: The Forgotten War (MMP / The Gamers)
►Lock 'n Load (Shrapnel Games)
Victory in Vietnam II (Schutze Games)
Best Wargame
Graphics
►Ardennes '44 (GMT
Games)
Europe Engulfed (GMT Games)
Liberty! (Columbia Games)
The Russian Campaign (L2 Design Group)
Sun of Austerlitz (OSG Games)
Best Desk Top
Published (DTP)-Produced Boardgame
Marlborough Man (BSO
Games)
►Thunder on South Mountain (Blue Guidon)
Victory in Vietnam II (Schutze Games)
Warplan Dropshot (Schutze Games)
Zhukov's First Victory (MDG)
Best
Magazine-Published Boardgame
Asia Crossroads
(Strategy & Tactics / Decision Games)
►Ignorant Armies (Strategy & Tactics / Decision Games)
The Lost Battalion (Strategy & Tactics / Decision Games)
Napoleon at the Berezina (Against the Odds)
North Wind Rain (Against the Odds)
Best Pre-20th
Century Era Computer Wargame
No winner
Best 20th
Century Era Computer Wargame
No winner
Best Game
Review or Game Analysis
►Drive on Stalingrad, by Adam Starkweather (Paper Wars, #50)
Best
Historical or Scenario Article
►Napoleon at the Berezina, by Robert Markham
(Against the Odds Vol.1 No.4)
James F.
Dunnigan Award
Frederic Bey (Vae Victis
magazine)
Craig Grando (ATO)
Bruce Harper (A World at War)
Joseph Miranda (for multiple designs)
►Rick Young and Jesse Evans (Europe Engulfed)
Clausewitz
Award HALL OF FAME
►Kevin Zucker
Best
Professional Wargame Magazine
►Against The Odds
C3i (GMT Games / RBM Studio)
Paper Wars (Omega Games)
Strategy & Tactics (Decision Games)
Vae Victis
Best Amateur
Wargame Magazine
The Boardgamer, Bruce Monnin
Die Manoeverkritik (Der
Musketier), German Historical Society
►Panzerschreck, Minden Games
Simulacrum, John Kula
Ultra
► = Awarded Best in that
Category; when more than one is awarded in a category, the result was a
statistical tie.
Board wargames published in 2003
 | Alea
 | #28: Africa 1859-60: The Last Romantic War |
|
| Against the Odds
| #4: Napoleon At The Berezina |
| #5: North Wind Rain |
| #6: Go Tell the Spartans |
|
| Avalanche
| America Triumphant |
| Battle of the Bulge |
| Bomb Alley |
| Chickamauga & Chattanooga |
| Distant Oceans (game supplement) |
| Edelweiss |
| Granada |
| Great Pacific War |
| Semper Fi: Guadacanal |
| Soldier Emperor |
| Tears of the Dragon |
| Tank Battles (game supplement) |
|
| Black Cat Studio
| Battle Cry Variant Kit |
|
| Blue Guidon Games
| Thunder on South Mountain |
|
| BSO
| Marlborough Man |
| Zulu! |
|
| Canons en Carton
| Epées de France |
|
| Clash of Arms
| Brute Force |
| Whistling Death |
| Mighty Midgets (game supplement) |
|
| Columbia Games
| Liberty |
|
| Critical Hit
| Against All Odds |
| Arnhem: Defiant Stand |
| D-Day Rangers |
| Gotterdammerung (new edition) |
| Santa Maria Infante |
| Scottish Corridor |
|
| Decision Games
| Battle Cry of Freedom |
| Italian Front |
| Rebels & Redcoats, Vol. III |
|
| DGAGames
| Battlecards: World Conflict: North African Campaign |
| Battlecards: World Conflict: Pacific Theatre |
| Battlecards: World Conflict: Russian Front |
|
| Eagle Games
| Age of Mythology |
| Attack! |
| Attack! Expansion |
|
| Fantasy Flight Games
| Game of Thrones |
|
| Gio Games
| Vive l'Empereur |
| Vive l'Empereur Advanced Version |
|
| GMT
| A World at War |
| Ardennes '44 |
| Attila (game module) |
| Blue vs Gray: Deluxe Edition |
| Corsairs and Hellcats |
| Europe Engulfed |
| Great Battles of Alexander (new edition) |
| Medieval |
| Rise of the Roman Republic |
| Sweden Fights On |
| Tyrant (game module) |
|
| Guild of Blades
| Arab Israeli Wars |
| Beyond Hadrian's Wall |
| Battle of Midway |
| Kaiju |
| Over the Trenches |
|
| Eric Harvey
| Advanced European Theater of Operations (AETO) Upgrade Kit |
|
| Heat of Battle
| Buckeyes! |
| Firefights |
|
| Khyber Pass
| Battle of Jassin 1915 |
|
| L2
| Bitter Woods |
| Russian Campaign |
|
| Lost Battalion
| 384th German Infantry Division |
| Battlelines: Winter Storm |
| Drive on Stalingrad |
| Operation Uranus |
| Streets of Stalingrad |
|
| Microgame Design Group
| Clash of Empires (new edition) Minden also published DREADNOUGHTS &
BATTLECRUISERS |
| Dutch Revolt |
| The Marcher Lords |
| No Middle Ground |
| Stalingrad: Pivot on the Volga |
| Zhukov's First Victory |
|
| Minden Games
| Dreadnoughts & Battlecruisers |
|
| MMP
| For King and Country (game module) |
| Korea: The Forgotten War |
| Monty's Gamble Market Garden |
|
| Naval Warfare Simulations Wargames
| Naval Warfare-World War 1 |
|
| NEPPAGAMES
| ETO |
|
| Perry Moore
| Gunfight In The Valley Of Tears 1973 |
| Kursk In Normandy |
|
| OSG
| Sun of Austerlitz |
|
| OSS
| Millennium Wars |
|
| Pacific Rim
| Iron Tide: Panzers in the Ardennes |
|
| Panzerschreck
| #10: Operation Typhoon/Sniper Attack |
| #11: Panzers in the Southeast/QAR: Quick Armor Rules/Sink the
TIirpitz |
|
| Phalanx Games
| Age of Napoleon |
| Hector and Achilles |
| Nero |
| The Prince (a.k.a. Borgia) |
| Waterloo |
|
| Relative Range
| Flying Colors |
|
| Schutze Games
| Cards Of War |
| Fox's Gambit: Gazala |
| Victory in Vietnam II |
| Warplan Dropshot |
|
| Shrapnel Games
| Lock 'N Load |
|
| Six Angles
| #8: Kharkov 1941-43 |
|
| Strategy and Tactics
| #213: Spanish Civil War Battles |
| #214: Granicus and Marathon |
| #215: Ignorant Armies: The Iran-Iraq War |
| #216: Asia Crossroads: The Great Game |
| #217: The Lost Battalion: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive 1918 |
| #218: Chancellorsville and Plevna |
| #219: Spanish Civil War Battles 2 |
|
| Table Tactics
| Cromwell 2026 |
|
| TCS
| Battle of Montebello |
|
| UGG
| Hellgame |
| Pasaran? |
|
| Vae Victis
| #49: Plutot Mort Que Perse |
| #50: Paris Vaut Bien Une Messe |
| #51: En Pointe Toujours III: Koursk |
| #52: La Campagne De France, 1814 |
| #53: Champs de Bataille IV: Asie |
| #54: Stalingrad: 1942 |
|
| Warfrog
| Princes of the Renaissance |
|
