Man to Man wargames: Encyclopedia II - Man to Man wargames - Board Games

Man to Man wargames - Board Games

Below is a list of man-to-man wargames in the order in which they were introduced.

• Sniper!: (SPI, 1973)
• Patrol: (SPI, 1973)
• City Fight: (SPI, 1979)
• Trenchfoot: (Game Designers' Workshop, 1981)
• Cry Havoc: (Eurogames, 1981)
• Gunslinger: (Avalon Hill, 1983)
• Close Assault: (Yaquinto, 1983)
• Ambush!: (Victory Games, 1983)
  • Move Out (Ambush! module) (Victory Games, 1984)
  • Purple Heart (Ambush! module) (Victory Games, 1985)
  • Silver Star (Ambush! module) (Victory Games, 1987)
• Firepower: (Avalon Hill, 1984)
• Sniper! (2nd Edition): (TSR, Inc., 1986)
• Battle Cry: (3W, 1986)
• Battle Hymn: (Victory Games, 1986)
  • Leatherneck: (Battle Hymn module)(Victory Games, 1988)
• Platoon: (Avalon Hill, 1986)
• Soldiers: (West End, 1987)
• Hetzer: (TSR, Inc., 1988)
• Special Forces: (TSR, Inc., 1988)
• Iron Cross (Strategy & Tactics Magazine, 1990)
• Shell Shock (Victory Games, 1990)
• Lock 'N Load: Forgotten Heroes Vietnam (Shrapnel, 2003)
  • Lock 'N Load: ANZAC Attack (Shrapnel, 2004) (expansion for Lock 'N Load: Forgotten Heroes Vietnam)
  • Lock 'N Load: Band of Heroes (Shrapnel, 2005)(expansion for Lock 'N Load: Forgotten Heroes Vietnam)

Some of these games represent further development of earlier titles; for example Firepower was a modern version of Close Assault which had been set in World War Two, designed by the same developer. The second edition of Sniper! was a redesign of the earlier game of the same name.

Ambush! was an innovative solitaire game based on a system of paragraph readings and a sleeve-and-card system that revealed data about the game environment as the player navigated his soldiers over the map. Set in the European Theatre of Operations in WW II, it spawned three sequels as well as a second series of games set in the Pacific (Battle Hymn) as well as a two player version (Shell Shock). Ambush! and all its successors were, however, self-admittedly more oriented on action-adventure than a true simulation of WW II combat.

Firepower was arguably the most realistic man-to-man treatment, with an attendant increase in complexity (there were, for example, arrow counters to indicate which side of a tree a soldier might be lying behind).

• Up Front (Avalon Hill) was a man-to-man game, however, it was not technically a "board game" because there was no mapboard in play; the game was driven by playing cards and dice, with individual soldiers represented by cards laid on a playing surface.

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