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Avalon Hill was a game company that specialized in war or strategic board games. The company was started in 1958 by Charles S. Roberts following the success of his wargame Tactics . With Tactics, Roberts created a new type of board game based on actual war-like scenarios and strategies. This sort of game had previously existed ( H. G. Wells had written a set of rules called Little Wars ), but they had exclusively used miniature figures and constructed scale terrain.Avalon Hill pioneered many of the concepts of modern recreational wargaming. These include elements such as the use of a hexagonal grid, zones of control (ZOC), stacking of multiple units at a location, an odds-based combat results table (CRT), terrain effects on movement, troop strength, troop morale, and board games based upon historical events. Complex games could and did have play lasting for days or even weeks, and AH set up a system for people to play games by mail.
Avalon Hill became a subsidiary of Monarch Avalon Printing in 1962 (as a way of repaying debts incurred by Roberts), which then ran it for the next 36 years. After some costly legal missteps in 1997 and 1998, Monarch decided to get out of the gaming business, disbanding Avalon Hill in the summer of 1998. Hasbro Games purchased the rights to the Avalon Hill games and back inventory and the name "Avalon Hill." Hasbro now publishes a select number of old Avalon Hill games. Several individual games were licensed to interested publishers. The largest number of the most popular games were licensed to Curt Schilling's Multi-Man PublishingMulti-Man Publishing, LLC ("MMP") is a game company formed by baseball player Curt Schilling and his partners to keep the game series Advanced Squad Leader alive. MMP operates some of the former Avalon Hill games under license from Hasbro, Inc. In 2002 MM.
Hasbro has also released a few new games under the Avalon Hill name, and has added the Avalon Hill name to older games like Axis and AlliesAxis and Allies is a strategy board game by the Milton Bradley Company set during World War II. Milton Bradley released it as part of their Gamemaster Series in 1984 and it was the most successful of the five; in April 2004, Hasbro released the Revised Ed which were not originally made by Avalon Hill.
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(Note that some of these were originally developed independently and repackaged/republished by AH.)
- 1776 - American RevolutionThe American Revolutionary War ( 1775 1783), also known as the American War of Independence was a war fought between Great Britain and revolutionaries within thirteen of her North American colonies. The war, which eventually widened far beyond British Nor (1974)
- 1914 - World War IWorld War I (also known as the First World War , the Great War the War of the Nations and the "War to End All Wars") was a world conflict occurring from 1914 to 1918. No previous conflict had mobilized so many soldiers, or involved so many in the field of (1968)
- AcquireAcquire is an abstract board game of investing in hotel chains. It was designed by the renowned game inventor Sid Sackson in the 1960s, and is currently owned by Avalon Hill. It is well-suited to family play because the rules are simple, no one gets elimi (1962)
- Advanced Squad LeaderAdvanced Squad Leader (ASL) is a wargame that simulates small unit actions (individual and squad level) in World War II. It is not simply a game, but rather a detailed game system. There are approximately 200 official scenarios, and players can create the (1985)
- Advanced Third ReichAdvanced Third Reich ATR 1992) is a board wargame published originally by Avalon Hill; which then sold the license to Avalanche. The game was marketed as "the ultimate strategy game". ATR a rewrite of Rise and Decline of the Third Reich ( 1974) is a simul (1992)
- Afrika Korps (1964, 1965, 1977)
- Age of Renaissance (1996)
- Air Assault on Crete (1978)
- Air Force (1980)
- Alexander the Great (1975)
- Ambush!
- Anzio (1969, 1971, 1974, 1978)
- The Arab-Israeli Wars (1977)
- Atlantic Storm (1997)
- Attack Sub (1991)
- Axis and Allies (Hasbro originally)
- B-17, Queen of the Skies (1983)
- Battle of the Bulge (1964, 1981, 1991)
- Bismarck - sinking of the Bismarck (1962, 1979)
- Blitzkrieg
- Breakout: Normandy (1993)
- Caesar - Caesar at Alesia (1976)
- Caesar's Legions (1975)
- Carrier
- Chancellorsville (1961, 1974)
- Circus Maximus (1980)
- Civil War
- Civilization
- D-Day (1961, 1965, 1971)
- Devil's Den (1985)
- Diplomacy (1961, 1977)
- Game of Slang
- Game of Trivia (1981)
- Gangsters (1992)
- Geronimo (1995)
- Gettysburg (1961, 1964, 1977, 1988, 1989)
- Guadalcanal (1966, 1992)
- Icebergs
- IDF (Israeli Defence Force) (1993)
- Image (1979)
- Intern (1979)
- Journeys of St. Paul (1968)
- Jutland (1967, 1974)
- Kampfgruppe Peiper I (1993)
- Kampfgruppe Peiper II (1996)
- Kingmaker
- Knights of the Air (1987)
- Kriegspiel (1970)
- Le Mans (1961)
- Legend of Robin Hood (1980)
- The Longest Day (1980)
- Luftwaffe (1971)
- Machiavelli (1980)
- Midway (1964, 1992)
- Monsters Ravage America! (1998)
- Napoleon (1977)
- Napoleon at Bay (1983)
- Napoleon's Battles (1989)
- Naval War (1983)
- New World (1990)
- Nieuchess (1961)
- Pacific War (Victory Games)
- Panzer Armee Afrika (1982)
- Panzerblitz (1970)
- Panzergruppe Guderian (1984)
- Panzerkrieg (1983)
- Panzer Leader (1974)
- Source of the Nile - African exploration (1979)
- Squad Leader - WWII tactical combat (1977)
- Squander (1965)
- Stalingrad (1963, 1974)
- Starship Troopers (1976, 1997)
- Stonewall Jackson's Way (1992)
- Stonewall in the Valley (1995)
- Stonewall's Last Battle (1996)
- Storm Over Arnhem (1981)
- Struggle of Nations (1982)
- Submarine (1978)
- Tactics (1952, 1983)
- Tactics II (1958, 1961, 1972)
- Third Reich - WWII grand strategy (1976, 1981)
- Titan - fantasy monster combat (1982)
- Titan: the Arena - (1997)
- Tokyo Express
- Yanks (1987)
- Year of the Lord (1968)
- Yellowstone (1985)
