This is the 12th 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 K.

The data provided here come from Simulacrum’s database (available for downloading in a number of formats on Simulacrum’s home page) of games, an ongoing project with information culled from many sources, primarily old war game magazines such as Strategy & Tactics, Fire & Movement, Moves, Campaign, Panzerfaust, Conflict and The Wargamer. 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...
Kadesh XTR Command 7 1990 G Dickens Ancient 7
Kaiser's Battle, the SPI S&T 83 1980 Joe Balkoski WW1 9
Kaiserschlacht 1918 S&G [1ed] 1977 Richard Spence WW1 9
Kaiserschlacht 1918 Excalibre [2ed] 1992 Richard Spence WW1 4
Kalnock, Battle of Takara 1985 Fantasy 3 Kamakura West End 3
Kamakura Shogunate 1192-1333 1982 M Mills Medieval 7
Kamikaze Decision F &M 31 1982 Dana Lombardy WW2 5
Kamikaze: Divine Wind S ix Angles S ix Angles 4 M edieval 5
Kampf um Rom Kuhlmann 1995 GH Kuhlmann WW2 5
Kampfgruppe Hist Altern 1970 WW2 5
Kampfgruppe Peiper I AH ASL historical module 2 1993 P Leonard WW2 7
Kampfgruppe Peiper II AH ASL historical module 3 1996 P Leonard WW2 7
Kampfpanzer SPI S&T 41 1973 Jim Dunnigan WW2 9
Kanev Parachutes Across the Dnepr 1943 P WG 1981 John Prados WW2 8
Kanev 3W S&T 115 1987 John Prados WW2 9
Kantou Tsukuda Medieval 5
Kasserine SPI p /o North Africa quad 1976 Jay Nelson WW2 9
Kasserine Fresno remake of SPI 1992 T Shrum WW2 9
Kasserine Kasserine GMT 2001 WW2 5
Kasserine Pass SDC 1972 John Hill WW2 4
Kasserine Pass Conflict 1973 John Hill WW2 9
Kasserine Pass GDW 1977 Frank Chadwick WW2 9
Kata-Kiuchi Hansen 1983 John Hansen Medieval 5
Keep, the GW Talisman expansion 2 Fantasy 4
Keep, the Mayfair 1983 Fantasy 5
Kerrunch GW 1991 Fantasy 4
Kesselring 3W Wargamer 5 1978 Bob Latter WW2 8
Kesselschlacht PM Pubs 1944 1992 Perry Moore WW2 6
Kesselschlacht ATO Against the Odds issue 3 2002 Perry Moore WW2 2
Kesselschlacht SDC c f Streets of Stalingrad n/p WW2
Kestenga PacRim Another Fight to the Finnish 1993 Mike Bennighof WW2 8
Khalkhin-Gol SDC Conflict 5 1973 Dana Lombardy Russo-Japanese War 10
Khan Esprit Pubs the Mongol Hordes 1977 Medieval 6
Kharkov Red Forces 1968 WW2 3
Kharkov SPI S&T 68 1978 Stephen Patrick WW2
Kharkov Euro Games Black Cross / Red Star series 1991 WW2 5
Kharkov 1943 H&C Vae Victis 25 1999 N icolas Stratigos WW2 6
Khe Sanh 1968 ATO Against the Odds issue 2 2002 Vietnam War 2
Khyber Rifles 3 W Wargamer 34 1984 Ed Furey Colonial 9
Kiev SPI Moment in Conflict 5 1979 Joe Angiolillo WW2 7
Kiev and Rostov Decision S&T 188 1998 Joe Angiolillo WW2 6
Killer Angels West End Lee's Campaign in Pennsylvania, 1863 1984 Helena Rubinstein American Civil War 8
King Arthur Wotan 1988 JMusgrave Fantasy 4
King Arthur: Stonehenge 536 SPI Moment in Conflict 9 1979 Linda & Rob Mosca Fantasy 9
King Arthur's Knights Chaosium 1978 Gregg Stafford Fantasy 7
King of Kings Good Ind 1990 Bill Banks Ancient 7
King of the Mountain Dimension Six 1980 Michael Dinacola Fantasy 7
King of the Tabletop TSR b ecame Kings & Things 1983 Tom Wham Fantasy 7
Kingdom for a Horse, a BSO the Battle of Bosworth, 1485 1999 Rich Berg War of Roses 7
Kingmaker Ariel / Philmar [1ed] 1973 Andrew McNeil War of Roses 9
Kingmaker AH [2ed] 1976 & [3ed] 1988 1976 Andrew McNeil War of Roses 9
Kingmaker Variant Event Cards AH War of Roses 9
Kings & Castles Ragnar 2 000 S teve Kendall Medieval 6
Kings & Things West End originally King of the Tabletop 1986 Tom Wham Fantasy 8
King's Bounty Task Force 1991 R Sassone Fantasy 9
King's War, the C lash of Arms Parliament vs the Crown 1642-46 1995 Charles Vasey English Civil War 8
Kircholm 1605 Dragoon P iotr Gorny 4
Kirovograd 3 W 1983 Jack Radey WW2 8
Knights & Knaves N imrod multi-player fictional empire in Middle Ages 1979 Al Nofi Medieval 8
Knights at War Usborne Pub 1976 Andrew McNeil Medieval 6
Knights Move, the a ttacks on a convoy n/p 2
Knights of Camelot TSR 1980 Glenn & Kevin Rahman Fantasy 8
Knights of Justice 3 W Wargamer 50 1986 C Bruce Medieval 8
Knights of the Air AH item 867 1987 Mick Uhl W W1 5
Knights of the Round Table Gamescience Fantasy 3
Kohima and Imphal, Battles of Albion 1974 Bob Fowler WW2 4
Kolin 1757 Clash of Arms Frederick's First Defeat 1994 P Dangel Seven Years War 8
Komet und Meteor JagdPanther 1974 WW2 7
Koniggratz S&G Austria vs. Prussia in 1866 1977 James Gabel Austro-Prussian War 9
Konradin oder Interregnum Kuhlmann 1993 GH Kuhlmann Medieval 4
Korea 3 W the Mobile War Korean War 4
Korea Tactics & Variants 1969 Korean War 2
Korea P oultron Press [1ed] 1970 Korean War 5
Korea SPI [2ed] 1971 Jim Dunnigan Korean War 7
Korea Angiolillo 1972 Joe Angiolillo Korean War 4
Korea JagdPanther 1974 Korean War 4
Korea TSR S&T 111 1987 Dave Ritchie Korean War 6
Korea '95 PacRim C ounterAttack 4 1994 Charles Kamp 20 Century 9
Korean War, the Victory June 1950 - May 1951 1986 Joe Balkoski Korean War 10
Korsun SPI Moment in Conflict 8 1979 S tephen Patrick WW2 7
Korsun Pocket PWG Little Stalingrad on the Dnepr, 1944 1979 Jack Radey WW2 9
Kreml Fata Morgana original version of AH Kremlin 1986 Urs Hostettler Politics 4
Kremlin AH item 878 1988 Urs Hostettler Politics 9
Kremlin Revolution Expansion Kit AH 1988 Russian Civil War 9
Krieg! Decision 1996 Steve Kosakowski WW2 9
Kriegsmarine Rand Command Series II-4 1975 WW2 5
Kriegsmarine Combat in Atlantic & Mediterranean 1939-45 SimCan 1980 Steve Newberg WW2 9
Kriegspiel AH item 806 1970 Tom Shaw Abstract 9
Krim: Von Manstein in the XTR Command 6 1990 Ty Bomba WW2 7 Crimea
Kroll & Prumni IT tactical Scifi wargame 1979 [unattributed] S F 7
Kula Kula Blatz Spiele [with a name like that\'85] 1991 Reinhold Wittig Non Wargame 10
Kung Fu 2100 Space Gamer [1ed] 1980 S teve Jackson Fantasy 5
Kung Fu 2100 Steve Jackson [2ed] 1980 S teve Jackson Fantasy 6
Kursk XTR WW2 2
Kursk Red Forces 1968 WW2 3
Kursk Trumpeter 1974 WW2 4
Kursk Euro Games Black Cross / Red Star series 1993 WW2 5
Kursk I SPI 1971 Sterling Hart WW2 7
Kursk II SPI Eric Goldberg's 1980 Eric Goldberg WW2 7
Kyusyu Tsukuda M edieval 5