The Awards Story
Once again, the "Charlies" were announced at MonsterGame.Con
in Tempe, AZ and presented at the World Boardgaming Championships.
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Best Pre-World
War II Boardgame
&1914: Twilight in the East (GMT Games LLC)
A Fatal Attraction (Against the Odds)
Habit of Victory , The (OSG)
Talavera (MMP/The Gamers)
Marne 1918: Friedensturm (Hexasim)
Best World War II
Boardgame
Asia Engulfed (GMT Games LLC)
&Case Blue (MMP/The Gamers)
Combat Commander: Vol. II - Med (GMT Games LLC)
Corps Command: Totensonntag (Lock n' Load Publishing)
Overlord: D-Day and the Beachhead Battles (NES)
Red Star Rising (MMP/IGS)
Best Post-WWII
Era Boardgame
Biafra (ATO 2007 Annual)
Jerusalem (Cool Stuff Unlimited)
Sea Lords (Strategy & Tactics #243)
&World at War: Eisenbach Gap (Lock 'n Load Publishing)
Best Wargame
Graphics
&1914: Twilight in the East (GMT Games LLC)
Case Blue (MMP/The Gamers)
Habit of Victory, The (OSG)
&Overlord: D-Day and the Beachhead Battles (NES)
Prussia's Defiant Stand (Worthington Games)
Red Star Rising (MMP/IGS)
Best Desk Top
Published (DTP)-Produced Boardgame
Blackshirt (BSO Games)
Jerusalem (Cool Stuff Unlimited)
Prairie Aflame (Khyber Pass Games)
&Rosebud: Prelude to Little Bighorn (Khyber Pass Games)
Best
Magazine-Published Boardgame
A Fatal Attraction (Against the Odds #20)
Look Away! (Against the Odds 2007 Annual)
&Not War But Murder (Against the Odds #19)
Sea Lords (Strategy & Tactics #243/DG)
Twilight of the Ottomans (Strategy & Tactics #241/DG)
Best Pre-20th
Century Era Computer Wargame
&Empires in Arms (Matrix Games)
Best 20th
Century Era Computer Wargame
&Guns of August 1914-1918 (Matrix
Games)
Best Game
Review or Game Analysis
&Against the Odds #19: The Evolution of Cards and Wargames, by John Prados
C3I #19, Combat Commander: Briefing on Scenario 10, by Chad & Kai Jensen
and John Foley
C3I #19, Combat Commander: Up Close and Personal, by John Foley
C3I #19, For the People: Opening Moves, by Mark Herman
Operations #52: A Victory Lost, Series Replay, by Pat Hirtle and Jon
Gautier
Best
Historical or Scenario Article
&Against the Odds #19, Not War But Murder: The Cold Harbor Campaign - 1864,
by Michael Rinella
Against the Odds #20, A Fatal Attraction: The Gallipoli Campaign, by Paul Rourbaugh
Against the Odds #20, Beating the Odds at Long Tan, by Mal Wright
Strategy & Tactics #244, Moscow 1941: Guderian vs. Hitler, by Joseph
Miranda
Strategy & Tactics #245, Fall of France, 1940: Myths & Reality,=2 0by John Burtt
James F.
Dunnigan Award
Craig Grando, Graphic Artist, Against the Odds magazine
&Dean Essig, Designer, Case Blue and OCS series (MMP/The Gamers)
Chad Jensen, Designer, Combat Commander series (GMT Games LLC)
Bowen Simmons, Designer, Napoleon's Triumph (Simmons Games)
Rick Young, Designer, Asia Engulfed (GMT Games LLC)
Clausewitz
Award HALL OF FAME
Not awarded this year.
Best
Professional Wargame Magazine
&Against The Odds
C3i (RBM Studio)
Paper Wars (Omega Games)
Strategy & Tactics (Decision Games)
Vae Victis
Best Amateur
Wargame Magazine
Frog of War Newsletter
&Line of Departure (James Werbaneth)
Panzer Digest (Gary Graber, Minden Games)
Panzerschreck (Gary Graber, Minden Games)
Simualcrum (John Kula)
& = 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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