The Awards Story
The "Charlies" were presented at the World Boardgaming Championships.
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Best Pre-WW2 era Board Game
Espana 1936 (Devir)
Manoeuvre (GMT Games LLC)
Pursuit of Glory (GMT Games LLC)
Unhappy King Charles (GMT Games LLC)
►Warriors of God (Multi Man
Publications, Inc.)
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Best World War 2 era Board Game
Combat Commander Pacific (GMT Games LLC)
►Conflict of Heroes (Academy
Games)
Storm Over Stalingrad (Multi Man Publications, Inc.)
The Devil's Cauldron (Multi Man Publications, Inc.)
Valor of the Guards (Multi Man Publications, Inc.)
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Best Post-WW2 era Board Game
Birds of Prey (Ad Astra Games)
World at War: Death of the 1st Panzer (Lock n Load Publishing, LLC)
Fields of Fire (GMT Games LLC)
Day of Heroes (Lock n Load Publishing, LLC)
►Red Dragon Rising: The Coming
War with China (Decision Games)
Best Graphic Design
►Conflict of Heroes (Academy
Games)
Monmouth (GMT Games LLC)
The Devil's Cauldron, MMP (Multi Man Publications, Inc.)
Unhappy King Charles (GMT Games LLC)
Warriors of God (Multi Man Publications, Inc.)
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Best Desktop Published (DTP) Game
Caesar XL (Victory Point Games)
First Strike (Schutze Games)
Israeli Independence (Victory Point Games)
►June '44 (DDH Games)
No Retreat! (Victory Point Games)
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Best Magazine Game
Cobra: The Normandy Campaign
(Strategy & Tactics, Decision Games)
Guerra a Muerte (Against the Odds, LPS)
Day of the Chariot: Kadesh (Against the
Odds, LPS)
►Iwo Jima: Rage Against the Marines
(Operations, MMP)
Red Dragon Rising: The Coming War with
China (Strategy & Tactics, Decision Games)
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Best Professional Game Magazine
Against the Odds (LPS)
►C3i Magazine (RBM Publication)
Operations (Multi Man Publications, Inc.)
Strategy & Tactics (Decision Games)
World at War (Decision Games)
Best Amateur Game Magazine
Armchair General (The Weider History
Group)
Dispatches from the Bunker (Vic Provost)
►Line of Departure (Jim Werbaneth)
No Turkeys (Valgames)
Panzer Digest (Minden Games)
James F. Dunnigan Design Elegance
Award
►Uwe
Eickert
Nicolas Eskubi
Chad Jensen
Nick Richardson
Adam Starkweather
Best Historical/Scenario Article
►Combat
Commander: Variant Rules by Chad Jensen and John Foley (C3i Magazine)
►Flying Colors: Trafalgar Campaign by Mark
Barker (C3i Magazine)
Making Waves by Brian Youse (Operations
Magazine)
Throttling Up The Drums: The Luftwaffe & Operation Paukenschlag by J.D.
Webster (Against the Odds, LPS)
Twilight Struggle: The Chinese Civil War by Jason Matthews (C3i Magazine)
Best Game Review or Analysis Article
►Empire of the Sun: Opening Strateg y by
Mark Herman (C3i Magazine)
►Top 20 Games – A Look Back by Steve Carey
(C3i Magazine)
Card Driven Games, A False Choice by Mark Herman (Against the Odds, LPS)
Keeping the Colonies Loyal by Andrew
Mulholland (Against the Odds, LPS)
Best Pre-20th
Century Era Computer Wargame
Not awarded this year
Best 20th
Century Era Computer Wargame
Not awarded this year
Clausewitz
Award HALL OF FAME
Not awarded this year.
► = Awarded Best in that
Category; when more than one is awarded in a category, the result was a
statistical tie.
Board wargames published in 2008
 | Academy Games
 | Conflict of Heroes: Awakening the Bear! - Russia 1941-1942 |
| The Swamp (expansion for Conflict of Heroes) |
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| Ad Astra
| Birds of Prey: Air Combat in the Jet Age |
| Squadron Strike |
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| Against the Odds magazine (ATO)
| #21: Day of the Chariot: Kadesh/Desert Duel
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| #22: Paukenschlag/The Winds of War |
| #23: Guerra a Muerte
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| 2008 Annual: Operation Cartwheel/Gazala Line 1942 |
| Showtime Hanoi |
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| Avalanche
| Airships (supplement for Zeppelins in the Great War at Sea Series)
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| Arctic Convoy (in the Second World War at Sea series) |
| Arctic Front Deluxe (revised supplement in the Panzer Grenadier
series) |
| Campaigns & Commanders Book (expansion in the Panzer Grenadier
series) |
| Cone of Fire ( (in the Second World Warand Great War at Sea series)
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| Elsenborn Ridge (in the Panzer Grenadier series) |
| First Axis (supplement in the Panzer Grenadier series) |
| Island of Death: Invasion of Malta |
| March on Leningrad (supplement in the Panzer Grenadier series) |
| Navy Plan Crimson (in the Great War at Sea series) |
| Red Russia |
| Rome at War: Hannibal at Bay |
| Rumors of War (expansion for Third Reich and Great Pacific War) |
| White Eagles (supplement in the Panzer Grenadier series) |
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| Bellica Third Generation
| Tomb for an Empire (in the Age of Muskets series) |
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| Canons en
Carton
| Epées et Croisade (in the Jours de Gloire series) |
| Rolica and Vimeiro 1808 (in the Jours de Gloire series) |
| Tsaritsyne 1919
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| Causus Belli
| Walls of China |
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| Clash of Arms
| Monmouth Courthouse |
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| Collins
Epic Games
| Frontline General: Italian Campaign Introduction |
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| Columbia Games
| Texas Glory: 1835-36 |
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| Command Magazine Japan
| Battle of Changkufeng Hill 1938 |
| The Story of Genghis' Conquest of the West |
| Street Fighting in Berlin |
| Temujin's Battles |
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| Compass Games
| The Price of Freedom |
| Spanish Eagles |
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| Critical Hit
| 101st Airborne At Brecourt Manor (compatible with Advanced Squad
Leader) |
| Avanti Savoia (supplement in the Advanced Tobruk series) |
| Escape From Chosin: Toktong 1950 (compatible with Advanced Squad
Leader) |
| Hurtgen Surprise (compatible with Advanced Squad Leader) |
| Ivan's War (compatible with Advanced Squad Leader) |
| Red Christmas - The CSIR and the Moscow Counter Offensive
(compatible with Advanced Squad Leader) |
| Spanish Fury - Hell on the Eastern Front (compatible with Advanced
Squad Leader) |
| Stalingrad (2nd. ed., in the Advanced Tobruk series) |
| Surprised Outside of Strass (supplement in the Advanced Tobruk
series) |
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| DDH Games
| June'44 |
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| Decision Games
| China: Middle Kingdom |
| Flying Circus |
| Highway to the Reich (rev. ed.) |
| Lightning Poland |
| War in the Pacific Extension Kit
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| Devir
| Espana 1936 (English reprint) |
Barry Doyle
| Valor and Victory |
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| Errata (fanzine)
| Usuthu! - Guerre Anglo-zoulou 1879 |
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| Michael
Erwin
| N30 (rev. ed.) |
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| Kelly Everit
| Imperial Ambitions (rev. ed.) |
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| Flavio Ezio
| Historia Romana |
| Siege of Alesia |
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| Fiery Dragon
| Army of Ireland |
| C.S.A.: America's Civil War, 1861-1865 |
| Konarmiya 1920: Year of the Red Horde |
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| Firefight Games
| Deep into the Bekaa |
| Panssarisottaa: The Battle of Tali-Ihantala, June 1944 |
| Pare Los Facists!, The Battle for La Coruna Road |
| Sinyavino 1942 |
| Tsaritsyn: Along the Volga June 1919 |
| Zolfaqar's Blow |
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| Generation X
| 2 de Mayo
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| GMT Games
| Barbarian (module for SPQR) |
| Barbarossa: Kiev to Rostov (in the East Front series) |
| Blackbeard (rev. ed.) |
| Chandragupta (in the Great Battles of History series) |
| Clash of Monarchs |
| Combat Commander Battle Pack - Stalingrad |
| Combat Commander: Pacific |
| Fast Action Battles: The Bulge |
| Fields of Fire |
| Kutuzov |
| Manoeuvre |
| The Napoleonic Wars (2nd. ed.) |
| Pacific Typhoon |
| Pursuit of Glory: The Great War in the Near East |
| SPQR Deluxe (reprint) |
| Successors (3rd. ed.) |
| Unhappy King Charles |
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| Grenier Games
| The Pursuit of von Spee |
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| Guild of Blades
| Spanish Civil War (4th ed.) |
| Stalingrad (in the Empires of History series)
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| Chris
Harding
| Alam Halfa |
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| Hasbro
| Axis & Allies Anniversary Editions |
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| Khyber Pass
Games
| B-29 |
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|
László Á. Koller
| Baptism at Bull Run |
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| Kurt Kempf
| The Battle for Berlin |
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| L2 Design Group
| Operation Typhoon: Barbarossa Denied
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| Lock 'n Load Publishing
| Carolina Rebels (in the Flintlock series) |
| Carolina Rebels (in the Flintlock series) |
| The Death of the 1st Panzer (expansion for Eisenbach Gap) |
| Lee at Gettysburg: The Battle for Cemetary Ridge (rev. ed.) |
| Lock 'n Load: A Day of Heroes |
| Lock 'n Load: Dark July |
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| Lost Battalion Games
| Tyrants of Rome |
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| Ludo (fanzine)
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| Minden Games
| Grand Fleet |
| Battlewagons |
| Madagascar 1942, |
| Tsushima |
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| MMP
| Action Pack 4: Normandy 1944 (in the Advanced Squad Leader series)
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| Burma (reprint, in the Operational Combat Series) |
| The Devils' Cauldron |
| Iwo Jima - Rage Against the Marines |
| Rock of the Marne (in the Standard Combat series) |
| Singling (in the Advanced Squad Leader series) |
| South Mountain (in the American Civil War Regimental Series) |
| Storm Over Stalingrad |
| Valor of the Guards (in the Advanced Squad Leader series) |
| Warriors of God |
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| No Turkeys! (Valgame)
| #1: Caldiero 1796 |
| #2: Le Diable au Cor |
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|
Panzer Digest (Minden Games)
| #3: Napoleon In Italy/Stalingrad: The Leather Factory |
| #4: Gladiators Of Rome/Courage Under Fire |
| #5: Thunder Gods/Breakout at St. Lo |
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| Pratzen Editions
| Le Vol de L'Aigle II |
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|
Felipe Santamaria
| El Valle de la Muerte |
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| Schutze Games
| Baptism at Bardia |
| Illusionary Fortress: Singapore 1942 |
| First Strike |
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| Simulations Journal / Game Journal Magazine
| Tenka Fubu |
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| Simtac-LudoPress
| El Eco de los Pasos |
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| Society of Ancients
| Germania: Drusus' Campaigns 12-9 BC |
| Roma Invicta |
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| Strategy and Tactics magazine
(Decision Games)
| #248: First Blood: Second Marne, 15 July 1918 |
| #249: Forgotten Napoleonic Campaigns |
| #250: Red Dragon Rising: The Coming War With China |
| #251: Cobra |
| #252: Civil War in the Far West: The New Mexico Campaign, 1862 |
| #253: Drive on Kursk: July 1943 |
| #254: Hannibal's War |
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|
Strategos (Riachuelo Games)
| #3: A Batalha do Passo do Rosario |
| #4: Polonia '39 |
| #5: Zumbi no meu Bolso |
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| Taktyka i Strategia
| #25: Chojnice 1454/Bagration 1944) |
| #26: Albuera 1811 |
| #27: Inchon 1950/Plowce 1331
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| Kras'nik 1914 |
| Pantery w akcji (Kaniów 1943) |
| Red Thunderstorm (Budziszyn 1945) |
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| TCS (Roberto Chiavini)
| Arsuf 1191 |
| Blonde He Was and Beautiful |
| Hopton vs Waller |
| Lake Peipus |
| Legnano |
| Maria Teresa |
| Montrose Triumphs |
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| UGG
| History of the Roman Empire |
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| Vae Victis magazine
| #79: L'Aventure Mexicaine 1862-1867/Rorke's Drift 1879 |
| #80: Fight for Africa 1960-1980/Kolwezi 1978 |
| #81: Epées et hallebardes 1315-1476 |
| #82: Roumania 1944 |
| #83: Rioseco 1808/Somosierra 1808 |
| #84: La Fronde |
| Le Chir, 8 Dec 1942 |
| Maleme, 20-23 May 1941
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| Velmad
| Battles at Sea |
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| Dan Verssen Games
| Field Commander: Rommel |
| Modern Naval Battles: Global Warfare |
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| Victory Point Games
| Albion 20 |
| Assault on Sevastopol |
| Ancient Battles Deluxe (rev. ed.) |
| Ancient Battles Deluxe 1: Elephants at War |
| Ancient Battles Deluxe 2: Hell's Horsemen |
| Borodino 20 |
| Caesar XL |
| Caesar XL Gold Expansion Kit |
| Crisis 2020 |
| The Drive on Metz (updated edition) |
| Fleets 2025: East China Sea |
| Israeli Independence |
| Israeli Independence Expansion Kit |
| Jena 20 |
| No Retreat! |
| Paul Koenig's D-Day: The American Beaches |
| Paul Koenig's D-Day: The Canadian Beach |
| Smolensk 20 |
| Strike Force One (updated edtion) |
| Tenka |
| Waterloo 20
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| World at War magazine
(Decision Games)
| #1: Barbarossa: The Russo-German War, 1941-45 |
| #2: Solomons Campaign |
| #3; The Bulge |
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| Worthington Games
| Hold the Line |
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