As part of the first annual SGS awards, Alan "web-grognard" Poulter tried to round up all of the board wargames published last year. In all, 27 publishers turned out a total of 78 games.

Format:

Boxed: 24
Pouch/bag: 32 (of these, 26 were amateur DTP)
Magazine: 22

In view of the near-total collapse of the regular distribution network for board wargames, it's not surprising that only one-third of the games released were in boxes, with another third amateur DTP efforts.

Period

Ancient-Medieval: 11
Renaissance-Age of Reason: 2
Napoleonic: 7
American Civil War: 8
Other 19th Century: 4
WW I: 8
WW II 24
Modern: 11
SF/Hypothetical: 3

As always, WW II is the big winner, followed by Ancients and Modern topics, but WW I continues to enjoy its rehabilitation. Science fiction games are notable by their absence: the only one on the list is Barnard's Star, which is itself a DTP re-issue. Perhaps computers have finally swallowed up this category of wargame once and for all.

"THE LIST"

ADG: America in Flames, Carriers in Flames

Avalanche Press: 1904-1905 RussoJapanese Naval War, Eylau, Scotland the Brave, US Navy Plan Black

Azure Wish Enterprises: La Grand Guerre

Blue Guidon Games: Fire in Mississippi

BSO: Devil's Horsemen, Los Gringos, Kingdom for a Horse

Clash of Arms: La Bataille De Lutzen, Chariot Lords

Command (magazine): (#50) Back to Iraq (2nd ed.), (#5 1) The Fire Next Time: The Next India-Pakistan War, (452) The Battle of Grunwald, 1410, (453) Iron Dream: The War in Russia, 1941-42

Critical Hit/Moments in History: Combat! Normandy, Drive to the Baltic!, In Flander's Fields

Decision Games: Galicia, Tannenberg, Totaler Krieg!, War in Europe (re-issue)

The Gamers: Aspern-Essling, Burma, Gazala, Malvern Hill

GMT: June 6th, Paths of Glory, River of Death, Tigers in the Mist, War Galley

GRD: The Damned Die Hard Ben Hull: This Accursed Civil War: 6 Battles from the English Civil War

Ivy Street Games: At all Hazards, Bethesda Church, Chantilly

Markham Designs: This Sceptred Isle, Vimeiro

Microgame Co-Op: Afghanistan, Barnard's Star, Battle for China, Blood and Steel, Freikorps, Trampling out the Vintage, Victory in Vietnam

OSG: Last Days of the Grande Armee

Perry Moore: Death and Destruction, Guderian's Last Gamble, Operation Vital Ground', SS Abyss: Hungary 1945, The Summer Tet Offensive

Multi-Man Publishing: Bloody Reef: Tarawa, A Bridge Too Far

Panzerschreck (magazine): (#2) Nuremberg: Trial of the Century, (#3) The Barbarossa Campaign

QED: Blue & Gray

Bill Ramsay: Bloody Beach: Omaha

Simulations Workshop: Caseros 1852, Cuba Libre!

Strategy and Tactics (magazine): (# 193) Crimean War, (# 194) Forgotten Axis: Murmansk 1941/Sea Devils II, (# 195) Borodino/Friedland, (# 196) Vietnam Battles: Hue and Khe Sanh, 1968, (# 197) Great Medieval Battles: Bannockburn and Tamburlaine

UGG: Triumph and fall of the Desert Fox

Vae Victis (magazine): (# 24) La Matz, (# 25) Kharkov 1943, (#26) Poitiers 1356/Formigny 1450, (#27) Normandie 1944, (#28) la Drang, 1965, (#29) Zurich, 1799

Charles Vasey: Deathride

(As always, quibbles over the editor's math or analytical skills may be sent to him personally to he placed in the appropriate roundfile.)