The Awards Story
The nominees were announced at ConSimWorld's MonsterGame.Con. The
CSR Award winners were presented at 8 am, Sunday, August 7th 2005, in the
Lancaster Showroom at the
2005 World Boardgaming Championships.
Best
Pre-World War II Boardgame
A Fearful Slaughter (MMP/The Gamers)
Seven Days of 1809 (OSG)
►Sword of Rome (GMT Games
LLC)
Three Battles of Manassas (MMP/The Gamers)
Best World War II
Boardgame
►ASL Starter Kit #1 (MMP)
Memoir '44 (Days of Wonder)
Roads to Leningrad (GMT Games LLC)
Best Modern
Era Boardgame
►Downtown (GMT Games
LLC)
Group of Soviet Forces Germany (Strategy & Tactics/Decision)
Into a Bear Trap (Against The Odds)
Best
Magazine-Published Boardgame
►Fortress Berlin
(Against The Odds)
Group of Soviet Forces Germany (Strategy & Tactics/Decision)
Suleiman the Magnificent
(Against The Odds)
Best Desk Top
Published (DTP)-Produced Boardgame
►Louisiana Tigers (BSO
Games)
Verdun (Cool Stuff Unlimited)
I Fights Mit Sigel (HomeGrown
Designs)
Fall of Tobruk (Cool Stuff Unlimited)
Best Wargame
Graphics
►Downtown (GMT Games LLC)
Roads to Leningrad (GMT Games LLC)
Seven Days of 1809 (OSG)
Best
Professional Wargame Magazine (tie)
►Against
The Odds
Paper Wars (Omega Games)
►Strategy & Tactics (Decision Games)
Best Amateur
Wargame Magazine
The Boardgamer (Bruce
Monnin)
Line of Departure
►Panzerschreck
(Minden Games)
Best Game
Review or Game Analysis
no
winner designated
Best
Historical or Scenario Article
The Canadian Army by Brian Train (Strategy & Tactics)
►The Sedan Campaign, 1870 by
Ty Bomba (Strategy &
Tactics)
James F.
Dunnigan Award
To a Game Designer,
Developer, Graphic Artist or Game for outstanding achievement
►Lee
Brimmicombe Wood, Designer, Downtown (GMT Games LLC)
Mark Simonitch for graphic design excellence
(GMT Games LLC)
Wray Ferrel, Designer, Sword of Rome (GMT Games
LLC)
Clausewitz
Award HALL OF FAME
JD Webster
Best Pre-20th
Century Era Computer Wargame
Battleground Gettysburg (HPS Simulations)
Dragoon (Shrapnel Games)
►Rome Total War (Activision)
Best 20th
Century Era Computer Wargame
►Battles in Normandy
(Matrix Games)
War in the Pacific (Matrix Games)
Hearts of Iron II (Paradox Interactive)
► = Awarded Best in that
Category; when more than one is awarded in a category, the result was a
statistical tie.

Board wargames published in 2004
 | Ad Astra
 | Attack Vector Tactical |
|
 | Alea magazine (Ludopress)
 | #29: Nordkapp: Arctic
convoys |
|
 | Against the Odds magazine (ATO)
 | #7: A Dark and Bloody Ground |
 | #8: Fortress Berlin |
 | #9: Suleiman the Magnificent |
 | #10: Into a Bear Trap |
|
 | Armchair General Magazine
 | #1: Operation Iraqi Freedom (free
web game) |
 | #2: Lee at Gettysburg |
 | #3: Omaha: Battle for the Beach |
 | #4: Brothers by my Side |
 | #5: Guildford Courthouse |
 | #6: [no game] |
|
 | Australian Design Group
 | 7 Ages |
 | Days of Decision III (reprint) |
|
 | Avalanche
 | Cruiser Warfare (in the Great War at Sea series) |
 | Defiant Russia: Operation
Barbarossa, 1941 |
 | Desert Rats (in the Panzer Grenadier series) |
 | Dreadnoughts (scenario book) |
 | Tears of the Dragon |
|
 | AWE
 | Austerlitz (in Vive
l'Empereur series) |
|
 | Bro Games
 | The Cossacks are Coming!
(reprint) |
|
 | BSO
 | East-West |
 | Highlander |
 | Louisiana Tigers (in the Civil War Tactical
System) |
|
 | Clash of Arms
 | Barons' War |
 | Dawn of the Rising Sun (in the Fear God and Dread
Nought series) |
|
 | Cool Stuff Unlimited
 | Fall of Tobruk
(reprint) |
 | Verdun (reprint) |
|
 | Lou Coatney
|
 | Columbia Games
 | Gettysburg: Badges of Courage |
 | Rommel in the Desert
(reprint) |
|
 | Command and Strategy magazine (UGG)
 | #1: Pearl Harbor (part 1, in Empires of the
Apocalypse series) |
|
 | Counterattack magazine (Pacific Rim Publishing)
 | #4.1: Korea 2005 (expansion for Korea '95) |
|
 | Critical Hit
 | Basic Game - Infantry (in the Advanced
Tobruk System) |
 | Combat! Kursk, Clash
Along the Psel (update of Combat:
Kursk!, in the Advanced
Tobruk System) |
 | D-Day: The Great Crusade |
 | Darkest December: Battle of the Bulge 1944 (in the
Advanced Tobruk System) |
 | Panther Line (in the Advanced
Tobruk System) |
 | Rudder's Line |
 | Santa Maria Infante
(in the Advanced Tobruk System) |
 | Stalingrad (update of Combat: Stalingrad, in the
Advanced Tobruk System) |
 | Tankers Guide (in the Advanced
Tobruk System) |
|
 | Days of Wonder
 | Memoir '44 |
|
 | Decision Games
 | Deluxe USN (updated ed.) |
 | Empires of the Middle Ages (reprint) |
 | Lightning D-Day |
 | Lightning Midway |
 | War Between the States, 1861-1865 (reprint) |
|
 | Excalibre Games
 | Deluxe Trajan
(reprint) |
 | Kaiserschlacht 1918
(reprint) |
 | To the Green Fields Beyond (reprint) |
|
 | Fanatic Games (all Advanced Squad Leader add-ons)
 | Leningrad Pack Scenario Pack |
 | French AFV Cards |
 | Italian AFV Cards |
 | Chinese AFV Cards |
 | Blitzkrieg Pack |
|
 | Fantasy Flight Games
 | A Clash of Kings (expansion for Game of Thrones) |
 | War of the Ring |
|
 | Fiery Dragon
 | Arriba Espana
(reprint) |
 | Autumn Mist |
 | Battle for China (reprint) |
|
 | Flying Buffalo
 | WMD (expansion for Nuclear War) |
|
 | Franc Tireur (all
Advanced Squad Leader add-ons)
 | # 8:Normandy |
 | From the Cellar scenario pack |
|
 | Gio Games
 | War to Axis: Warfare in Normandy |
 | Yankees & Rebels |
|
 | GMT
 | Borodino, Battle of
the Moskova, 1812 (in the Triumph & Glory
series) |
 | The Devil's Horsemen (in the Great Battles of
History series) |
 | Downtown |
 | Churubusco (free
web game, uses Gringo! game system) |
 | Gringo! |
 | Paths of Glory (reprint) |
 | Roads to Leningrad |
 | Sword of Rome |
 | Three Days of Gettysburg (in the Great Battles of
the American Civil War series, reprint) |
|
 | Grenier Games
 | World War II in the East |
 | World War II in the West |
|
 | Hasbro
 | Axis & Allies (revised ed.) |
 | Axis & Allies: D-Day |
|
 | Chester Hendrix
|
 | Histogame
 | Friedrich |
|
 | Home Grown Designs
 | I Fights Mit Sigel (in
the Rebel Yell series) |
|
 | Khyber Pass
 | Ataturk! |
 | Battle of Maiwand |
 | Castro: The Cuban Revolution, 1958-59 |
 | Che: Failed
Revolution, Bolivia 1967 |
|
 | L2 Design Group
 | Deluxe Bitter Woods Expansion Kit |
 | Russia Besieged |
 | Southern Expansion Kit (for The Russian Campaign) |
|
 | Lost Battalion
 | Battleships in Action |
 | Combat Soldiers: In the Battle of the Bulge |
 | Sergeants! |
 | Stalingrad Campaign Upper Echelon Set |
|
 | Microgame Design Group
 | Byzantium Reborn |
 | Target Damascus (free
web game, scenario for No Middle Ground) |
|
 | MMP
 | Advanced Squad Leader Starter Kit #1 (in the
Advanced Squad Leader series) |
 | DAK2 (in the Operational Combat series, reprint) |
 | A Fearful Slaughter (in the Civil War Regimental
series) |
 | Three Battles of Manassas (in the Civil War
Brigade series, based on August Fury) |
|
 | Dubious Designs (free
web games)
 | Armies at Lutzen |
 | Castles of Steel |
 | Chevauchee |
|
 | Naval Warfare Simulations Wargames
 | Battleships Zenith |
 | World War One Expansion Pack #1: Tsushima |
|
 | Nexus
 | Wings of War: Famous Aces |
|
 | Perry Moore
 | 200 Miles from Moscow! |
 | Bir
Buyuk Turk Saldiri
|
 | Operation Eisbar 1943 |
|
 | OSG
 | The Seven Days of 1809 (in the Six Days of Glory
series) |
|
 | Panzerschreck magazine
(Minden Games)
 | #12: Drive on Leningrad/Masada/Invasion
|
 | #13: Tsaritsyn/Assault
On Cherbourg/Graf Spee |
|
 | Phalanx Games
 | Der
Erste Weltkrieg
|
 | Naval Battles |
 | Revolution: the Dutch Revolt (limited
ed.) |
|
 | Pinnacle Games
 | Fields Of Honour: the
American War of Independence |
|
 | Ragnar Brothers
 | Viking Fury |
|
 | Red Sash Games
 | Charlies' Year
(revised ed) |
 | The Highland Quorum (module for Charlie's Year) |
|
 | Schutze Games
 | Vicksburg |
|
 | Shrapnel Games
 | ANZAC Attack |
|
 | Shroeder Games
 | The Western Front: 1914-1918 (in the
Der Weltkrieg
series) |
|
 | Six Angles
 | #9: War for the Motherland |
|
 | Strategy and Tactics
 | #220: Group of Soviet Forces Germany |
 | #221: The Seven Years World War |
 | #222: The Ottomans |
 | #223: 1918: Imperial Germany's Last Chance |
 | #224: The Sedan Campaign |
 | #225: Twilight's Last Gleaming 2 |
 | #226: Middle East Battles |
|
 | Vae
Victis magazine (Histoire et Collections)
 | #55: Solferino 1859 |
 | #56: Semper Victor |
 | #57: D-Day 1944 |
 | #58: Austerlitz 1805 |
 | #59: Alsace 1944 |
 | #60: Pour Dieu et pour
le Roy |
|
 | Warfrog
 | Struggle of Empires |
|
 | Worthington Games
 | Victoria Cross: The Battle of
Rorke's Drift |
|