This is the sixth in a planned series of 27 articles dealing with all the world’s board wargames ever published, and some that weren’t published. Each article gives summary data for all the games whose titles begin with the same letter of the alphabet, sequentially starting with the numbers. This article includes all games beginning with the letter F.

The data provided here comes from Simulacrum’s database (spreadsheet, actually, and in Excel 97 format for those who are interested) of games, an ongoing project with information culled from many sources, primarily old wargame magazines such as Strategy & Tactics, Fire & Movement, Moves, Campaign, Panzerfaust and Conflict. Since new data are continually being identified and existing data confirmed or amended, the database is in a state of constant flux.

The game data in the following table are:

• Title
• Additional Data
• Publisher
• Date of publication
• Designer
• Era
• Data reliability factor

Game titles appear as published, with the following exceptions. English articles only, i.e., a, an and the, are moved to the end of the title (all non-English titles containing articles are precisely as they were published). Likewise all English titles beginning with the word Battle have had Battle and its preposition, i.e., at, of or for, moved to the end of the title as well.

Additional data may include subtitle, edition number and date, magazine in which the game appeared, etc. The date of publication is now Y2K compliant. There are only two games listed in the database whose publication date is in the 19th Century, and the exact date is provided next to the title to avoid any ambiguity. An n/p entry as a date suggests that the game was never, or has not yet been, published. The dates listed are, wherever possible, copyright date, which could precede publication date. Information given for era is generally not specifically provided by the publisher, and so is an extrapolation which could be debated. Precedent has been established for just such a debate, ancient precedent, if I may be so bold.

The data reliability factor is not intrinsic to the game itself, but simply a scale I’ve devised to indicate the relative accuracy of the data. The scale goes from 0 to 9, with 9 meaning that I’ve actually held the game in my hands and confirmed the data with my own eyes, and 2 or 3 meaning that the game may never have been published and all data are suspect.

Without further ado, then...

Game Name	Company	Battle	Year	Designer	Era	Data Reliability
Factories, Battle for the	Nova / Gameshop	Campaign for N.Half of Stalingrad	1982	Dana F Lombardy	WW2 East Front	9
Falkland Sound	Mayfair Games Inc.	-	1982	J Griffin	-	7
Falklands or Malvinas	Lightfoot & Assoc.	-	1982	EM Lightfoot	Falklands War	7
Falklands War, the	Close Simulations	Naval Conflict in the Missile Age	1982	W C Close	Falklands War	9
Falklands, Battle of the	Western Enterprises	-	1968	-	WW1	3
Fall Barbarossa	Bradley, Robert	-	-	Robert L Bradley	WW2 East Front	4
Fall of Bataan, the	JagdPanther Pubs		-1975	Allen D Eldridge	WW2 PTO	7
Fall of France	SPI	S&T 27	1971	James F Dunnigan	WW2	9
Fall of France, the	GDW	Europa VIII	1981	John M Astell	WW2 West Front	7
Fall of Khartoum	Phoenix Enterprises	cf Remember Gordon!	-	-	-	6
Fall of Manjukuo	Grognard	-	1987	George Phillies	WW2	9
Fall of Rome	SPI	S&T 39	1973	John M Young	Ancient Roman	9
Fall of Rome	Decision Games	S&T 181	1997	Joe Miranda	Ancient Roman	7
Fall of South Vietnam	Yaquinto	-	1981	Neil Zimmerer	Vietnam	7
Fall of Tobruk, the	Conflict Game Co. # 107	-	1975	John Hill	WW2 North Africa	8
Fall of Tobruk, the	GDW	-	1978	Frank A Chadwick	WW2 North Africa	7
Fallen Eagle: Khe Sahn	WWW	Wargamer 62	1987	Perry A Moore	Vietnam	8
Fallen Empires, Fallen Pants	D.I.P. Co.	-	-	-	SF&F	5
Famous Victory, a	Moments in History	Blenheim & Ramillies	1995	Richard H Berg	Spanish Succession	7
FAR 90	Excelsior Pubs	Casus Belli 40	1987	P Gioux	WW3	5
Far Seas, the	WWW	S&T 125	1989	M Anderson	WW1	9
Fast Attack Boats	Yaquinto	Arab-Israeli War 1973	1980	Neil Zimmerer	Arab-Israeli Wars	7
Fast Carriers	SPI	-	1975	James F Dunnigan	WW2	7
Fatal Alliances	ADG	-	1992	D Cox	-	6
Fatal Alliances	CWG	-	1992	D Cox	-	7
Fatal Alliances II	CWG	-	-	-	-	2
Fateful Lightning	XTR	Battle of Gettysburg	1994	Chris Perello	American Civil War	8
FEBA	Close Simulations	-	1985	G Morgan	-	4
Federation and Empire	Task Force Games	-	1986	-	SF&F	6
Federation Space	Task Force Games	-	1980	S Wilcox	SF&F	7
Fellowship of the Ring, the	ICE	-	1983	C Charlton	Fantasy	7
Feudal Lords	-	-	-	-	Medieval Japan	4
Fief	International Team	-	-	-	-	3
Fief 2	International Team	-	-	Philippe Mouchebeuf	-	4
Fief 2	Euro Games	-	1989	-	-	5
Fiefs & Empires	Jeux Descartes	Ave Tenebrae expansion	1992	Francois Marcel-Froideval	SF&F	5
Field Command	Johnston	Military Strategy game	-	W Johnston	Abstract	5
Field Command	PBM Graphics	Military Strategy [2ed]	1996	-	-	3
Field Marshall	Jedko Game Co.	[1ed] 1977 & [2ed]	1977	Jon Edwards	Abstract	8
Field Marshall's, Handbook, the [1ed]	Supremacy	Supremacy expansion [1ed] 87 & [2ed] 88	1987	R Simpson	Modern	7
Field of Honor	Ragnarok	-	-	-	Medieval	2
Field of Honor Deluxe	Ragnarok	-	-	-	Medieval	2
Fields of Glory	Moments in History	Oudenarde & Malplaquet	1996	Richard H Berg	Spanish Succession	7
Fifth Corps	SPI	Central Front Vol. 1 S&T 82	1980	James F Dunnigan	Modern Europe	9
Fifth Frontier War	GDW	-	1981	Marc W Miller	SF&F	7
Fifth Millenium	Mooney	-	-	-	SF&F	5
Fight for the Sky	Attactix Games	-	1982	T Jones	WW2	7
Fight for Tobruk	Wellington	-	1976	-	WW2	4
Fight for Tobruk	SDC	-	1977	F Malmberg	WW2	7
Fight in the Skies	Carr	[1ed] 1967 & [2ed] 1968	1967	M Carr	WW1	7
Fight in the Skies	Panzerfaust Pubs [3ed] 1970 & [4ed] 1972	-	1970	M Carr	WW1	6
Fight in the Skies	TSR	[5ed]	1975	M Carr	WW1	8
Fight on the Beaches	WWW	Wargamer 40	1985	R Sandall	WW2	7
Fighter Command	Jordan	-	1983	R Jordan	Abstract	7
Fighting General Patton	Ad Technos	-	1985	M Fukada	WW2 ETO	7
Fighting Sail	WWW	Rob Markham	Age of Sail	6
Fighting Sail	SPI	S&T 85	1981	Joe M Balkoski	Age of Sail	9
Fighting Sails	AHIKS	-	1970	-	Age of Sail	4
Fighting Ships	Usborne Pub.	Battlegame Book 5	1977	-	-	4
File 13	Dragon 72	-	1983	Tom Wham	SF&F	4
Final Frontier	FASA Corp.	-	1980	-	-	4
Final Frontier, the	Microgame Coop [1ed] 1997 & [2ed] 1999	-	1997	Kerry Anderson	-	8
Fire in Mississippi	Blue Guidon Games	-	1999	-	-	6
Fire in the East	GR/D	Europa I nee Drang Nach Osten	-	-	WW2 East Front	4
Fire in the East	GDW	Europa I nee Drang Nach Osten	1984	John M Astell	WW2 East Front	7
Fire Next Time, the	XTR	Next India-Pakistan War	1999	Tyrone Bomba	Modern India	7
Fire on the Iser	Total Fighting	-	-	-	-	2
Fire on the Suns	Ellis	Tactical Command	-	Gregory W Ellis	SF&F	5
Fire on the Volga	Nova / Gameshop	-	1984	Dana F Lombardy	WW2 East Front	7
Fire Team	West End Games	-	1987	Jon Southard	Modern	7
Fire When Ready	Metagaming	Microhistory 5 #3305	1982 M Barnhart	Pre Dreadnought	7
Firebreaks	Ground Zero	1984	R Molander	WW3	7
Firefight	SPI	modern small unit tactics	1976	James F Dunnigan	Modern	8
FireFight	TSR	SPI brand	1983	James F Dunnigan	Modern	6
Firepower	Avalon Hill	-	1984	S Craig Taylor	Modern	8
First Afghan War 1839-42	Decision Games	S&T 179	1996	Joe Miranda	Imperialism	7
First Arab-Israeli War	Decision Games	S&T 185	1997	Joe Miranda	Arab-Israeli Wars	7
First Battle	GDW	-	-	-	-	2
First Blood	SDI	1st and 2nd battles of Manassas	1990	Richard H Berg	American Civil War	8
First Blood: Guadalcanal	Decision Games	S&T 178	1996	Chester Hendrix	WW2 PTO	7
First Blood	Hendrix	the Guadalcanal Campaign	1992	Chester Hendrix	WW2 PTO	9
First Contacts	SPI	n/p	-	-	-	2
First Empire, Battles of the	Historical Concepts	Marengo	1984	D Naquin	Napoleonic	7
First Indochina War	BattleFlag	the French-Vietminh conflict	1973	Guy R Hail	Modern Indochina	8
First Panzer Army	P M Publications	-	1984	Perry A Moore	-	4
First Strike	VerProd	-	1987	-	-	3
First Team	WWW	Wargamer 56	1986	M Joslyn	Vietnam	7
First to Fight	GR / D	[1ed] 1991 & [2ed] 1998	1991	John M Astell	-	7
First World War, the	SPI	-	1977	Frank Davis	WW1	8
Fistful of Turkeys, a	Metagaming	Some Turkey Games	1981	H Thompson	Humor	8
Five Armies, Battle of the	LORE	[1ed]	1975	Larry Smith	SF&F	8
Five Armies, Battle of the	TSR	[2ed] 1976 & [3ed] 1977	1976	Larry Smith	Fantasy	8
Five Armies, Battle of the	ICE	-	1984	Richard H Britton	-	5
Fjord	Sandhurst	-	1982	P Griffith	-	7
Flames Across the Valley	Chatham Hill	-	1997	R Toelke	-	4
Flash Gordon	House of Games	-	1977	-	SF	3
Flash Gordon and the Warriors of Mongo	FGU	-	-	S Bizar	SF	4
Flashpoint Golan!	Victory Games	-	1991	Mark Herman	Arab-Israeli Wars	7
Flat Top	Battleline Pubs	[1ed]	1977	S Craig Taylor	WW2 Naval Pacific	8
Flat Top	Avalon Hill	[2ed] 1981 & [3ed]	1981	S Craig Taylor	WW2	8
Fleet Admiral	Quarterdeck Games	-	1987	Jack Greene	-	7
Fleurus	Jeux Descartes	-	1980	JJ Petit	-	5
Flight Leader	Avalon Hill	-	1986	G Morgan	Modern	8
Flight of the Boodles	TSR	-	1982	C Stoll	SF&F	4
Flight of the Goeben	SPI	S&T 21 with Chicago, Chicago!	1970	Dave Williams	WW1	9
Flodden	Perfidious Albion	-	-	-	Medieval Scotland	4
Florida	Xeno	-	1993	P Belli	New World	8
Flower of Chivalry	CWG	-	-	-	-	2
Flower of the Forest	-	-	1993	Charles H Vasey	Medieval Scotland	7
Flying Circus	SPI	S&T 31	1972	James F Dunnigan	WW1	9
Flying Fortress 1	Poultron Press	Test Series 2	1969	James F Dunnigan	WW2	7
Flying Fortress 2	Poultron Press	Test Series 10	1969	James F Dunnigan	WW2	7
Flying Machines	Nova / Gameshop	Ace of Aces	1983	A Leonardi	WW1	7
Flying Tigers	Poultron Press	Test Series 13	-	-	WW2	4
Flying Tigers	Gamescience Corp	-	1970	Lou B Zocchi	WW2	7
Flying Tigers II	BattleFlag	-	1973	Lou B Zocchi	WW2	3
Fontenoy 1745	Ludopress	Alea 11	1991	Jose Sepruun	-	5
Fontenoy 1745	H&C	Vae Victis 6	1996	Laurent Manceaux	-	5
For the People	Avalon Hill	-	1998	Mark Herman	American Civil War	8
For Whom the Bell Tolls	GR/D	Europa XIV	1995	J Gee	Spanish Civil War	8
Forager Crusade for the Marianas	Avalanche Press	n/p	-	-	WW2 PTO	2
Force Eagle's War	The Gamers	modern conflict in the Middle East	1990	Dean Essig	Modern Mideast	7
Forcing of the Schellenberg, 1702	Trumpeter Mag	-	1973	-	-	4
Foreign Legion: Macta	Bearhug Pubs	-	1979	-	-	4
Foreign Legion: Moulay Ishmael	Bearhug Pubs	-	1979	-	-	4
Forest Lords of Dihad	Metagaming	the Fantasy Trip	-	-	Fantasy	2
Forest, the	GW	Talisman expansion 1	-	-	Fantasy	4
Forever War, the	Mayfair Games Inc.	-	1983	J Griffin	-	4
Forgotten Axis, Murmansk	Decision Games	also Sea Devils II [S&T 194]	1999	Mike Bennighof	WW2 East Front	6
Forgotten War, the	Decision Games	-	1997	John Desch	Korean War	7
Formalhaut 5	-	-	-	-	SF&F	5
Formalhaut II	Attack International	-	1975	Dave H Casciano	SF&F	7
Fortress America	Milton Bradley	-	1986	M Gray	Abstract	7
Fortress Cassino	Heat of Battle	ASL expansion	1998	-	WW2	3
Fortress Europa	Jedko Game Co.	the Battle for France 1944 [1ed]	1978	Jon Edwards	WW2 ETO	7
Fortress Europa	Avalon Hill	[2ed]	1980	Alan R Moon	WW2	8
Fortress Holland	GDW	Germany Against Holland, 1940	n/p	-	WW2 West Front	2
Fortress Rhodesia	Raymond Game	modern guerilla warfare in Africa	1974	M Raymond	Modern Guerilla	8
Fortress Stalingrad	WWW	S&T 124	1988	Tyrone Bomba	WW2 East Front	9
Fortuna	Supremacy	Supremacy expansion	1989	R S impson	Modern	7
Forward to Richmond	WWW	Wargamer 13	1980	B Pointer	American Civil War	7
Four Battles for N. Africa	SPI	-	1976	-	WW2	9
4 Battles of Ancient World	Decision Games	-	1992	L Baggett	Ancient	8
4 Battles of Ancient World	Decision Games	Issus; Metaurus; Carrhae; Idivisto	1995	L Baggett	Ancient	8
Four From Spain	Games USA	-	-	-	-	2
Fox One	One Small Step	-	1997	-	-	6
Foxbat & Phantom	SPI	-	1973	James F Dunnigan	Modern	7
France 1944	Simulations Cornejo	West Front 1944	1979	HA Cornejo	WW2	5
France 1944	Victory Games	-	1986	Mark Herman	WW2	7
France, 1940	Avalon Hill	-	1972	James F Dunnigan	WW2	8
France, Battle for	SPI	-	1971	James F Dunnigan	WW2	7
Franco-Prussian War	SPI	-	1972	James F Dunnigan	F ranco-Prussian War	8
Franco-Prussian War, the	Decision Games	S&T 149	1992	Joe Miranda	Franco-Prussian War	7
Frederick the Great	SPI	S&T 49	1975	Frank Davis	Seven Years War	9
Frederick the Great	Avalon Hill	[1ed] 1982 & [2ed] 1983	1982	Frank Davis	Seven Years War	7
Fredericksburg	SPI	p /o Blue & Gray 2 quad	1976	Irad B Hardy	American Civil War	7
Free Mars!	Decision Games	-	-	-	SF&F	5
Freedom in the Galaxy	SPI	-	1979	Howie Barasch	SF	7
Freedom in the Galaxy	Avalon Hill	-	1982	Howie Barasch	SF	7
Freefall	Bone Games	-	-	-	SF&F	5
Freiburg	SPI	p /o Thirty Years' War quad	1976	Stephen B Patrick	Thirty Years War	7
Freikorps	Microgame Coop	-	1999	Brian R Train	Alternate History	9
French Foreign Legion, the	Yaquinto	-	1982	E Teuber	-	6
Friedland	Decision Games	with Vittoria S&T 151	-	-	Napoleonic	4
Friedland	Jeux Descartes	1984	-	JJ Petit	Napoleonic	5
Friedland 1807	SDC	-	-	-	Napoleonic	2
Friedland 1807	Imperial Games	-	1975	JF Baxley	Napoleonic	8
Friedland 1807	Games USA	Eagles of the Empire	1995	Brien J Miller	Napoleonic	8
Frigate	SPI	-	1974	James F Dunnigan	Age of Sail	7
Frigates	Chatham Hill	-	1997	R Toelke	Age of Sail	4
From Distant Lands	Triumph Game Co.	-	-	-	Ancient	2
Frontier	Sierra Madre	Burros & Bandidos expansion	1996	Phil Eklund	19th C.	7
Frontiers of Alusia	SPI	DragonQuest adventure 3	1981	Rudy Kraft	Fantasy	7
Fruehlingserwachsen	PM Publications	Hitler's East Front Ardennes 1945	1980	Perry A Moore	WW2 East Front	8
Fuhrer's Firemen	Heat of Battle	ASL expansion	1999	-	WW2	3
Fulda Gap	SPI	also [SPUK ed]	1977	James F Dunnigan	Modern Europe	8
Fury in the West	Battleline Pubs	The Battle of Shiloh, 1862	1977	J Steven Peek	American Civil War	8
Fury in the West	Avalon Hill	The Battle of Shiloh, 1862	1981	J Steven Peek	American Civil War	4
Fury of Dracula	GW	-	1987	S Hand	Fantasy	4
Fury of the Norsemen	Metagaming	Microhistory 4 #3304	1980	K Hendryx	Medieval Viking	7
Fury on the Champlain	WWW	Prevost's Plattsburgh Campaign	1996	J. Farewell	War of 1812	7