This is the tenth 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 I

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 10, with 9 meaning that I’ve actually held the game in my hands and confirmed the data with my own eyes, 10 meaning that I have reconfirmed the data, and 2 or 3 meaning that the game may never have been published and all data are suspect.

Without further ado, then...

Name, Publisher, Year, Author, Subject, Data Reliability

I Am Spartacus Command 15 XTR 1992 M Markowitz Ancient 7
I Corps P M Pubs 1983 Perry Moore Vietnam 5
I Shall Return Philippines 1942 & 1944 Pacifica n/p WW2 2
I Will Fight No More Forever Retreat of the Nez Perce, 1877 SimCan 1979 Steve Newberg Wild West 9
I.J.N. Imperial Japanese Navy 41-45 S imCan 1978 Steve Newberg WW2 9
Ia Drang Alea 5 Ludopress Indochina War 5
ICBM Mayfair 1981 20 Century 3
Ice War ESA's Transpolar Raid on Metagaming 1978 Keith Gross SF 8 Alaska
Icebergs TSR 1982 Tom Wham 20 Century 7
Ides of March, the can Mark Anthony rescue Julius Caesar? Mayfair 1981 Neil Zimmerer Ancient 9
IDF Israeli Defense Force Avalon Hill 1993 JM Day 20 Century 7
Idro war between underwater races International Team 1980 Fantasy 6
Iena 1806 French version of CoA
Iena Tillsit Editions 1997 Napoleonic 5
II Corps destruction of S. Vietnamese II Corps 1975P M Pubs 1983 Perry Moore Vietnam 6
Iliad The Siege of Troy Conflict 1978 R Fontana Ancient 6
Iliad The Siege of Troy GDW 1978 R Fontana Fantasy 8
Iliad the Fight for Troy International Team 1979 [unattributed] Fantasy 7
Illuminati also several expansions Steve Jackson Steve Jackson Fantasy 9
Imperator WWW 1992 Bill Banks Ancient 7
Imperial Governor / Strategos politics. strategy & warfare in ancient Greece FGU 1978 Ken Broadhurst Ancient 8
Imperial Governor / Strategos Ariel/Philmar 1979 Ken Broadhurst Ancient 5
Imperial Guard Little Soldier 7
Imperial Squadrons Imperium SF&F 5
Imperial Starfire Task Force SF&F 2
Imperialism F lying Buffalo 1974 Richard Barr Fantasy 7
Imperium Empires in Conflict: Worlds in the Balance GDW 1978 Marc Marc Miller SF 9
Imperium 2000 Avalanche SF&F 5
Imperium Romanum the Clash of Legions West End 1979 Al Nofi Ancient 8
Imperium Romanum II West End 1985 Al Nofi Ancient 8
In Flanders Fields originally Ypres 1915 Critical Hit 1999 Kerry Anderson WW1 7
In the Labyrinth # 2102 Metagaming SF&F 5
In the Name of Justice Metagaming n/p 2
In the Year of Our Lord also Year of the Lord Avalon Hill 1960 Family 2
In Their Quiet Fields The Gamers 1988 Dean Essig American Civil War 7
In Their Quiet Fields II the Battle of Antietam, 1862 The Gamers 1995 Dean Essig American Civil War 7
Inchon turning the tide in Korea. SimCan 1981 Steve Newberg Korean War 9
Inchon: MacArthur's Gambit Command 9 XTR 1991 Jim Werbaneth Korean War 7
Incredible Victory Quarterdeck 1986 P eter Bertram WW2 7
India, Battle for JagdPanther Colonialism 2
Indian Mutiny, the S &T 121 WWW 1988 Rob Markham Colonialism 9
Indian Ocean Adventure Japanese raids on Ceylon, GDW 1978 Marc Miller WW2 9 1942
Indochina American Designers 1972 Guy R Hail Vietnam 7
Indo-Pakistani Wars S &T 174 Decision 1995 Joe Miranda 20 Century 8
Infernal Machines Landships expansion 1918-1930 Clash of Arms 2 000 Perry Moore Interwar 8
Infinity Recreate the Heavens and the Earth Gamut of Games abstract 6
Inkerman p /o Crimean War quad SPI 1978 Marty Goldberger Crimean War 7
Insecta [1ed] 1994 & [2ed] S ierra Madre 1994 Phil Eklund Fantasy 9
Insecta F at Messiah 1995 Phil Eklund Fantasy 4
Insecta Pixies Expansion Kit S ierra Madre Phil Eklund Fantasy 9
Insecta: the Rainforest Sierra Madre 1994 Phil Eklund Fantasy 6
Insecta: the Rainforest Fat Messiah 1997 Phil Eklund Fantasy 4
Insurgency successful pacification of Sadec province 1969 Blake WH Smith Guerilla 5
Insurgency successful pacification of Sadec province Battleline 1979 Blake WH Smith Guerilla 9
Insurrection a Sonienvo Casus Belli 11 Excelsior 1982 P Dauge 5
Interceptor FASA Corp. SF&F 5
Interceptor N ight Shift SF&F 5
Interstellar Skirmishes MT3 SF 2
Interstellar Wars Attactix 1982 SF 8
Intruder Task Force 1980 B Dennis Sustare SF 8
Invasion F H Ayres 1889 H Chamberlain 19 Century 6
Invasion SPI 1970 S id Sackson 4
Invasion American Designers 1971 Stephen Marsland WW2 6
Invasion America SPI 1976 Jim Dunnigan Alternate History 7
Invasion Cuba Der Krieg Spiel Ziton 1976 Cold War 4
Invasion Earth GDW 1981 Marc Miller SF 6
Invasion Italy 1943-45 GMT WW2 2 Invasion Norway 1940 GMT 1996 K Boylan WW2 7
Invasion of Sicily Panzerfaust 1972 Hal Totten WW2 6
Invasion of the Air Eaters Microgame 12 #3112 Metagaming 1978 Keith Gross Fantasy 7
Invasion Sicily July-August 1943 GMT 1998 Vance Von Borries WW2 7
Invasion: Sicily Alexander vs. Kesselring, 1943 Gamut of Games 1974 [unattributed] WW2 10
Iran-Iraq War, the P M Pubs 1983 Perry Moore 2 0 Century 5
Iron and Fire The Valley of the Shenandoah 1862 Total Fighting Power 1984 Jonathan Moore American Civil War 9
Iron Bottom Sound Critical Hit Jack Greene WW2 3
Iron Bottom Sound II Solomon Islands 1942-43 Critical Hit 1997 Jack Greene WW2 8
Iron Brigade C C&C 1982 David G Martin American Civil War 6
Iron Cross S &T 132 WWW 1990 M Sprock WW2 9 Iron Dragon Tom Wham RR 4
Iron Dream: the War in Russia 1941-42 Command 53 XTR 1999 WW2 6
Iron Tide Panzers in the Ardennes P acRim Pub 1999 N Kilgore WW2 5
Ironbottom Sound Surface Naval Actions off Guadalcanal Quarterdeck 1981 Jack Greene WW2 8
Ironclads and Ether Flyers GDW Fantasy 4
Ironclads Expansion Kit, the Yaquinto 1980 John Fuseler 19 Century 8
Ironclads Expansion Kit, the [2ed] Excalibre 1994 John Fuseler 19 Century 7
Ironclads, the Yaquinto 1979 John Fuseler American Civil War 8
Ironclads, the [2ed] Excalibre 1994 John Fuseler American Civil War 7
Ironman Football Sierra Madre S ports 4
Ironsides the English Civil War. 1642-46 WWW 1994 Rob Markham English Civil War 8
Isandhlwana p roposed Series 120 game GDW n/p Zulu Wars 2
Island War quad Bloody Ridge; Leyte; Okinawa; Saipan SPI 1975 Ed Curran WW2 9
It! AIWA 1976 Dave Casciano Fantasy 7
Italian Campaign Excalibre WW2 2
Italian Campaign Red Forces 1968 WW2 3
Italian Campaign, the Sicily to Italy Histo 1975 Laurence Rusiecki WW2 8
Italian Victories in World War F lying Buffalo 1977 WW2 4 II
Italy Test Series 1 Poultron Press 1968 Jim Dunnigan WW2 8
Italy Histo 1976 Laurence Rusiecki WW2 4 Italy SPI n/p WW2 2
Italy, Battle for reprint of OSG Arcola Avalon Hill 1983 Kevin Zucker Napoleonic 8
Itty Bitty Battles Walter O'Hara Walt O'Hara 3 IU Mille 1860 Sizilien Clem Toys 4
IV: Four Against Rome Decision 1994 Ancient 6
IV: Four Against Rome WWW 1993 Richard Berg Ancient 8
Iwo Jima Panzerfaust 1970 WW2 4
Iwo Jima S &T 92 TSR 1983 D Rohde WW2 9