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

Here I Stand: Wars of the Reformation 1517-1555

GMT Games

2006

WT 2.0/5 2–6P 30MIN RTG 6.3

Grand strategic card-driven game covering the political, military and religious upheaval of the Reformation. Six powers compete across Europe, the Americas, and the Ottoman frontier.

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

Sekigahara: The Unification of Japan

GMT Games

2011

WT 2.8/5 2–2P 180MIN RTG 8.0

Block wargame of the 1600 Sekigahara campaign that unified Japan under Tokugawa. Hidden unit identities create fog of war, and card-driven combat rewards planning and misdirection.

Same era

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MATCH 02