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cults. Hundreds of wargamers, this writer being one of them, strained, sweated, argued and meditated over those two games, devising strategies, set-ups and variants almost ad infinitum. Both games were simultaneously unhistoric and unbalanced, yet we played them (brother, did we play them!), simply
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company to settle the debts. The new owners resolved to let the company continue to do what it had been doing, and while
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correlation, the more serious wargames tend towards more complex rules with possibilities for more calculation and computation of odds, more exceptions (generally to reproduce unique historical circumstances), more available courses of action, and more detail or "chrome". The extreme end of this
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continued to draw in new players. These attracted the same sort of players that had gravitated to wargames before, which led to a declining, and aging, population in the hobby. The continued marginal sales of wargames took its toll on the older companies. Game
Designers' Workshop went out of
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series. They quickly followed this with other games, which also got favorable reviews. It has been estimated that GDW published one new product every 22 days for the 22 year life of the company (to be fair, this would include magazines and supplements, not just complete games).
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games, which leaves some room for groups with one person who buys the games, or people who stick to older titles—who do exist, but are cold comfort for publishers). During 2006, several publishers reported that sales were up, but this could remain a short-term bump in sales.
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Wargaming', with a large number of new companies publishing an even larger number of games throughout, powered by an explosive rise in the number of people playing wargames. Wargames also diversified in subject, with early science-fiction wargames appearing in
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in 1957 and focuses on entire wars rather than battles, typically using regions or countries as spaces rather than hexes, and often using plastic pieces. These games are often designed to support more than two players. The
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produced the three initial games of this type. It has long been the province of Gamma Two and its successor, Columbia Games, but recently other companies have been putting out games of the same type.
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that commonly have a unit type and designation as well as numerical combat and movement factors. Players take turns moving and conducting attacks. Combat is typically resolved with an odds-based
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to find a much larger market, and SPI to become a company known to all wargamers as having a line of games that surpassed Avalon Hill's (at least, in numbers—arguments about quality raged).
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Hasbro has kept the Avalon Hill name as a brand, and republished a few of its extensive back catalog of games, as well as released new ones, and moved the remnant of the
Gamemaster series (
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successful wargames. However, there were no new hires to replace departing personnel, and the company slowly died a death of neglect in the 1990s.
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2013:"The State of Wargaming"
1918:"A Requiem for the Hill"
1572:"Playability as Realism"
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596:Charles S. Roberts Award
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2011:Peck, Michael (2006).
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783:Wargames tend to be
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2193:Miniature wargaming
2037:"Twilight Struggle"
1730:"About Avalon Hill"
1617:There Will Be Games
1414:from Columbia Games
1151:World Wide Wargames
1119:is still in print.
1109:by former staff of
1095:Steve Jackson Games
1091:Metagaming Concepts
920:Avalon Hill General
876:in 1953. The game,
854:command and control
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361:Operational wargame
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