2022 Charles S. Roberts Awards Winners Announced

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – The Board of Governors is proud to announce the winners the 2022 Charles S. Roberts Awards for Excellence in Conflict Simulation Games (“CSR Awards”). We are very please to have delivered a slate of outstanding nominees, but in each category, there can be only one winner, and you will find those here with our announcement and Awards show today.

Moving forward, the CSR Awards, looking to continue improving forward, will form an Advisory Committee in the coming weeks, to help identify and resolve existing issues and inefficiencies as we move forward to the 2023 Awards, and beyond. Also, look for some significant website updates and upgrades coming soon.

The CSR Awards would like to thank all those who participated in the 2022 Awards process, in particular the members of the Board of Governors, the participants in the Nominating Committee, and the jurists for the Clausewitz Hall of Fame, as well as each and every person who cast a ballot.

The full list of the 2022 winners is also presented below.

Best Ancients Wargame
414 BC: Siege of Syracuse, Worthington Publishing, designer Dan Fournie
Barbarians at the Gates, Compass Games, designer Kris Van Beurden
Caesar! Seize Rome in 20 Minutes! PSC Games, designer Paolo Mori
WINNER: Great Battles of Julius Caesar Deluxe Edition, GMT Games, designers Richard H. Berg and Mark Herman
The Punic Wars, Bonsai Games, designer Yasushi Nakaguro

Best Medieval Wargame
1212: Navas de Tolosa, Draco Ideas, designer Pablo Sanz
WINNER: Almoravid, GMT Games, designer Volko Ruhnke
Battles of Medieval Britain, self-published by designer Mike Lambo
Breizh 1341, Shakos, designer Laurent Gary
Saladin, Draco Ideas/Shakos, designer Denis Sauvage

Best Gunpowder Wargame
1565: Siege of Malta, Worthington Publishing, designer Maurice Suckling
Fire & Stone: Siege of Vienna 1683, Capstone Games, designer Robert DeLeskie
Nagashino 1575 & Shizugatake 1583, Serious Historical Games, designer Phillipe Hardy
WINNER: No Peace Without Honor, Compass Games, designer David Meyler
Wars of Religion, France 1562-1598, Fellowship of Simulations, designer Jerome Lefrancq

Best Early Modern Wargame
Bloody Retribution: The Battle of Inkerman, Compass Games, designer Ty Bomba
John Company Second Edition, Wehrlegig Games, designer Cole Wehrle
WINNER: Plains Indian Wars, GMT Games, designer John Poniske
The Red Burnoose: Algeria 1857, Hit ‘Em With a Shoe, designers Roberta Taylor and Matt Shoemaker
Votes for Women, Fort Circle Games, designer Tory Brown

Best Napoleonic Wargame
1815 Scum of the Earth, Hall or Nothing Productions, designer Tristan Hall
A Crowning Glory: Austerlitz 1805, Against the Odds, designer Ty Bomba
WINNER: Bonaparte in the Quadrilateral, OSG, designer Kevin Zucker
Napoléon 1815, Shakos, designer Denis Sauvage
Siege of Mantua, Hollandspiele, designer Amabel Holland

Best American Civil War Wargame
WINNER: A Most Fearful Sacrifice, Flying Pig Games, designer Hermann Luttmann
Border States, Shakos, designer Stéphane Brachet
Brothers at War: 1862, Compass Games, designer Christopher Moeller
Give Us Victories, Dissimula Edizioni, designer Sergio Schiavi
Into the Woods: The Battle of Shiloh, GMT Games, designer Richard Whitaker

Best Early 20th Century Wargame
WINNER: 1914: Nach Paris, VUCA Simulations, designer Bertrand Munier
Death of an Army, Ypres 1914, Revolution Games, designer Kerry Anderson
Imperial Tide: The Great War, Compass Games, designer Gregory M. Smith
Kaiserkrieg!, White Dog Games, designer Ben Madison

Best World War II Wargame
Arracourt, Multi-Man Publishing, designer Carl Fung
Barbarossa: Army Group Center Second Edition, GMT Games, designer Vance von Borries
Enemy Action: Kharkov, Compass Games, designer John Butterfield
WINNER: Pacific War Second Edition, GMT Games, designer Mark Herman
Undaunted: Stalingrad, Osprey Games, designers David Thompson and Trevor Benjamin

Best Modern Wargame
2 Minutes to Midnight, Plague Island Games, designer Stuart Tonge
WINNER: Flashpoint: South China Sea, GMT Games, designer Harold Buchanan
Resist!, Salt & Pepper Games, designers David Thompson, Roger Tankersley, and Trevor Benjamin
Twilight Struggle: Red Sea, GMT Games, designer Jason Matthews
Zurmat, Catastrophe Games, designer Tim Densham

Best Hypothetical Wargame
Case Geld: The Axis Invasion of North America, 1945-46, Compass Games, designer Ty Bomba
CO-OPS, Nuts! Publishing, designers Adrien Biciacci, Guillaume Prévost, and Quentin Rouyre
Die Festung Hamburg, Thin Red Line Games, designer Fabrizio Vianello
Spruance Leader, Dan Verssen Games, designer Dean Brown
WINNER: The Third World War Designer Signature Edition, Compass Games, designer Frank Chadwick

Best Science Fiction or Fantasy Wargame
Ginormopod 2050 A.D.: Attack of the Giant Bug Monsters, Hollandspiele, designers Ryan Heilman and Dave Shaw
Nemo’s War: The Ultimate Edition, Victory Point Games, designers Christopher Taylor and Alan Emrich
WINNER: The Long Road, Flying Pig Games, designer Mark H. Walker
Wonderland’s War, Druid City Games/Skybound Games, designers Tim Eisner, Ben Eisner, and Ian Moss
Xenos Rampant, Osprey Games, designers Daniel Mersey and Richard Cowen

Best Solitaire or Cooperative Wargame
American Tank Ace, Compass Games, designer Gregory M. Smith
Enemy Action: Kharkov, Compass Games, designer John Butterfield
Lanzerath Ridge, Dan Verssen Games, designer David Thompson
Resist!, Salt & Pepper Games, designers David Thompson, Roger Tankersley, and Trevor Benjamin
WINNER: Skies Above Britain, GMT Games, designers Jerry White and Gina Willis

Best Expansion for an Existing Wargame
Battles For the Shenandoah, for Death Valley, GMT Games, designer Greg Laubach
WINNER: Fall of Saigon, for Fire in the Lake, GMT Games, designers Mark Herman and Volko Ruhnke
II Grass II Crown, for The Grass Crown, Hollandspiele, designer Amabel Holland
Red Storm: Baltic Approaches, for Red Storm, GMT Games, designer Douglas Bush
The Bulge Campaign, for Fields of Fire, GMT Games, designer Ben Hull

Best Wargaming Magazine
Against the Odds
WINNER: Strategy & Tactics
Vae Victis
War Diary
World at War

The Redmond A. Simonsen Memorial Award for Outstanding Wargame Presentation
WINNER: A Most Fearful Sacrifice: The Three Days of Gettysburg, Flying Pig Games
Almoravid: Reconquista and Riposte in Spain, 1085-1086, GMT Games
Donnerschlag: Escape from Stalingrad, VUCA Simulations
Fire & Stone: Siege of Vienna 1683, Capstone Games

The James F. Dunnigan Award for Playability and Design
Hermann Luttmann
WINNER: Volko Ruhnke

The Charles S. Roberts Memorial Award for Best New Designer
Dean Brown (Spruance Leader)
Patrick Gebhardt (Donnerschlag)
WINNER: Richard Whitaker (Into the Woods)

CSR Awards (Clausewitz) Hall of Fame Inductees
Dana Lombardy
John Prados
Volko Ruhnke

Wargame of the Year
WINNER: A Most Fearful Sacrifice: The Three Days of Gettysburg, Flying Pig Games, designer Hermann Luttmann
Almoravid: Reconquista and Riposte in Spain 1085-1086, GMT Games, designer Volko Ruhnke
Into the Woods: The Battle of Shiloh, April 6-7, 1862, GMT Games, designer Richard Whitaker
Napoléon 1815, Shakos, designer Denis Sauvage
Undaunted: Stalingrad, Osprey Games, designers David Thompson and Trevor Benjamin