Another Point of Singularity

A while back, I was asked to be part of the judging for something called The "Gamer's Choice Award", since then morphed into the "International Gamers Award". It's kind of fun, tabulating the stuff that gets published every year, being part of the balloting process and fighting with the other members of the committee for your own favorite. For your amusement, this years' list of candidates (the first list, what we choose the top ten finalists from) is presented below. I think it's handy because this helps me focus for the GAMES 100 selections I usually have to make in June. This year is a smaller list than usual, but I like the large number of grass roots effort (and free, published on the web games) being recognized this year. One of them, Chevauchee (a free game of medieval combat), will be on my finalist list.

The deadline for submitting your list is: MARCH 15, 2005. From these submissions, we will determine the list of finalists. Thanks so much for your participation! *** 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 Stalingrad Attacked (free web game) 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 Trajan (reprint) Deluxe USN (updated ed.) Empires of the Middle Ages (reprint) Lightning D-Day Lightning Midway War Between the States, 1861-1865 (reprint) The Western Front: 1914-1918 (in the Der Weltkrieg series) Excalibur Games 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 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 First Blood: the Gaudalcanal Campaign (free web game, reprint) 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 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 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 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

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