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List Of Wargame Publishers
{{Wargaming List of wargame publishers is an index of commercial companies that publish wargames. * 3W or World Wide Wargames – publishers of the wargaming magazine '' The Wargamer''. * A and A Game Engineering – concentrating on air and naval rules ACIES Edizioni- publishers of wargames like ''Lepanto'' and others. * Agema.org.uk – publishers of the ''Game of War'' 18th century/Napoleonic rules, ''Salvo'' WW2 naval, and ''Challenge & Reply'' WW1 naval, among others. * Amarillo Design Bureau Inc. (ADB) – publisher of ''Star Fleet Battles'' (SFB), along with the related strategic game '' Federation & Empire''. * Australian Design Group (ADG) – publishers of ''World in Flames''. * Avalanche Press – publishers of the ''Great War at Sea'' and ''Panzer Grenadier'' series, among others. * Avalon Hill – the first publisher of board wargames, Avalon Hill (AH) made many classic games, such as ''Squad Leader'', ''Third Reich'', and ''PanzerBlitz'', bought out by Hasbro in 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Company (law)
A company, abbreviated as co., is a legal entity representing an association of people, whether natural, legal or a mixture of both, with a specific objective. Company members share a common purpose and unite to achieve specific, declared goals. Companies take various forms, such as: * voluntary associations, which may include nonprofit organizations * business entities, whose aim is generating profit * financial entities and banks * programs or educational institutions A company can be created as a legal person so that the company itself has limited liability as members perform or fail to discharge their duty according to the publicly declared incorporation, or published policy. When a company closes, it may need to be liquidated to avoid further legal obligations. Companies may associate and collectively register themselves as new companies; the resulting entities are often known as corporate groups. Meanings and definitions A company can be defined as an "artificial per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flames Of War
''Flames of War'' (abbreviated as ''FoW'') is a World War II tabletop miniatures wargame produced by the New Zealand company Battlefront Miniatures Ltd. The 1st Edition set of rules was published in 2002. ''Flames of War'' allows players to wargame company level battles from the European, Pacific and North African Theatres of World War II, using 1/100 scale miniatures (15 mm figure scale) and miniature armor. In the 1st Edition rulebook basic army lists were provided for the mid-war period (1942–1943), while Battlefront published early (1939–1941) and late war (1944–1945) army lists on their website (subsequently these early and late war lists were removed). The 2nd Edition of the rulebook was published in 2006. The 3rd Edition of the rules was released on March 10th, 2012. The 4th Edition rules were released in March 2017. Gameplay Gameplay takes place over a series of turns, with players alternating movement, shooting and close assault. This simple sequence of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wargods Of Ægyptus
''War Gods of Ægyptus'' is a tabletop combat game published by Crocodile Games in 2001 that uses armies of collectible metal miniatures. Description ''War Gods of Æegyptus'' is a set of rules for tabletop miniatures combat set in a pseudo-historical Bronze Age Egypt. Players collect and paint miniatures that correspond to the combatants listed in the book and then use the figures to fight tabletop battles. Using a point-buy system, each player creates an army from lists in the book that represents one of the gods of Ægyptus: Anubis, Bast, Horus, Set, Ptah, Khanum, Sobek, Thoth, Isis or Osiris. Each army is led by a Harbinger, who has been given a particular gift from their god. Setting Battles are set in the Antediluvian Age after the fall of Atlantis Atlantis ( grc, Ἀτλαντὶς νῆσος, , island of Atlas (mythology), Atlas) is a fictional island mentioned in an allegory on the hubris of nations in Plato's works ''Timaeus (dialogue), Timaeus'' and ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Infinity (wargame)
''Infinity the game'' (also known as ''Infinity: A Skirmish Game'') is a tabletop miniature wargame with 28mm scale metal miniatures that simulates combat and special operations in a Science fiction environment created by Gutier Lusquiños Rodríguez, Alberto Abal, Fernando Liste and Carlos Torres of Corvus Belli. The games aesthetics are largely inspired by Manga, particularly the work of Masamune Shirow. Each player controls a set of miniatures to represent soldiers on a tabletop battlefield, taking actions during play to achieve their set goals and prevent their opponent from achieving theirs, while also seeking to destroy their opponents soldiers. Setting The game is set 175 years in the future, as such the aesthetics of Infinity can vary from run down shanty towns to hyper futuristic and pristine city precincts. The Human race have discovered worm holes that allow interstellar travel into new galaxies; the nations of earth formed alliances with each other in order to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hill (game Designer)
John Evans Hill (February 21, 1945 – January 12, 2015) was an American designer of military board wargames, as well as rules for miniature wargaming. He is best known as the designer of the Avalon Hill board game ''Squad Leader'' and the American Civil War miniatures game ''Johnny Reb (game), Johnny Reb''. He was inducted into the Charles Roberts Awards Hall of Fame. Early life John Evans Hill never knew his biological father, John T. Hill, who was killed in action during World War II while his mother Marian Jane Hill was pregnant. John Evans Hill was born on February 21, 1945 in Chicago and grew up in Elmhurst, Illinois. When Hill was three years old, his mother married Edward F. Whitley, who became the man Hill identified as his father. Hill also had a half-brother, Richard Whitley, a notable film and television writer. Hill was raised as a Catholic, attending and graduating from IC Catholic Prep (Elmhurst, Illinois), Immaculate Conception High School. After high school, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
