History in Play

MATCH 19

Grant Takes Command

PUBLISHER UNKNOWN

2001

WT 3.7/5 2–2P

Designed by Joseph M. Balkoski, Ed Beach

Same eventSame war

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MATCH 09

Tanks: Panther vs Sherman

PUBLISHER UNKNOWN

2016

WT 1.8/5 2–2P 60MIN RTG 7.2

Same war

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MATCH 02

Paths of Glory

GMT Games

1999

WT 3.8/5 2–2P 480MIN RTG 8.1

Card-driven grand strategic game of World War I. One of the most acclaimed wargames ever made.

Same era

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MATCH 02

Verdun 1916: Steel Inferno

Hexasim

2018

WT 2.6/5 2–2P 240MIN RTG 8.5

Detailed simulation of the 10-month Battle of Verdun using area-impulse system.

Same era

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MATCH 02

The Lamps Are Going Out

Compass Games

2018

WT 2.6/5 2–4P 240MIN RTG 7.7

Grand strategic WWI game covering the entire conflict from 1914-1918.

Same era

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MATCH 02

Fire in the Lake

GMT Games

2014

WT 4.1/5 1–4P 180MIN RTG 8.1

COIN series volume covering the Vietnam War with four asymmetric factions.

Same era

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MATCH 02

Polis: Fight for the Hegemony

Asylum Games

2012

WT 3.7/5 2–2P 120MIN RTG 7.6

Strategic game of the Peloponnesian War covering the conflict between Athens and Sparta.

Same era

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MATCH 02

Commands & Colors: Ancients

GMT Games

2006

WT 2.7/5 2–2P 60MIN RTG 7.8

Fast-playing tactical wargame covering battles from the Greco-Persian Wars through the fall of Rome. Uses the Commands & Colors block system with scenario-specific terrain.

Same era

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MATCH 02

Hannibal: Rome vs. Carthage

Avalon Hill

1996

WT 3.4/5 2–2P 200MIN RTG 7.8

Card-driven operational game of the Second Punic War. Hannibal must use his brilliant generalship to defeat Rome before Carthage's allies defect. A landmark design that popularised the card-driven war...

Same era

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MATCH 02

Pericles: The Peloponnesian Wars

GMT Games

2017

WT 4.2/5 1–4P 360MIN RTG 7.9

Mark Herman's strategic game of the entire Peloponnesian War. Each side juggles political infighting between its own factions as well as military competition against the enemy — unique dual-layer card...

Same era

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MATCH 02

The Great War

GMT Games

2017

WT 2.7/5 2–2P 60MIN RTG 7.8

Commands & Colors system applied to WWI Western Front tactics. Mud, wire, gas, and machine guns make this a tactically distinctive entry in the C&C family — infantry assaults feel appropriately brutal...

Same era

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MATCH 02