The Charles S. Roberts Awards

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, formally known as the Clausewitz Award Hall of Fame, is named after legendary military writer

Carl von Clausewitz Carl Philipp Gottfried (or Gottlieb) von Clausewitz (; 1 June 1780 – 16 November 1831) was a Prussian general and military theorist who stressed the "moral", in modern terms meaning psychological, and political aspects of waging war. His mos ...

. The recipients of this award have made an important contribution and left their mark on the contemporary hobby of military strategy games and simulations. The Clausewitz Award is presented with the annual Charles S. Roberts Awards.

Inductees

:''See footnote'' *1974 -

Charles S. Roberts Charles Swann Roberts (February 3, 1930 – August 20, 2010, Baltimore, Maryland) was a wargame designer, railroad historian, and businessman. He is renowned as "The Father of Board Wargaming", having created the first commercially successful m ...

*1974 - Don Turnbull *1975 -

Jim Dunnigan James F. Dunnigan (born 8 August 1943) is an author, military-political analyst, Defense and State Department consultant, and Wargaming, wargame designer currently living in New York City. Career Dunnigan was born in Rockland County, New York. A ...

*1976 - Tom Shaw *1977 - Redmond A. Simonsen *1978 -

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*1979 - David Isby *1980 - E

Gary Gygax Ernest Gary Gygax ( ; July 27, 1938 – March 4, 2008) was an American game designer and author best known for co-creating the pioneering role-playing game ''Dungeons & Dragons'' (''D&D'') with Dave Arneson. In the 1960s, Gygax created an ...

*1981 - Marc W. Miller *1982 - Steve Jackson *1983 -

Dave Arneson David Lance Arneson (; October 1, 1947Minnesota Department of Health. ''Minnesota Birth Index, 1935–2002'' atabase on-line Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004. – April 7, 2009) was an American game designer best known ...

*1984 -

Frank Chadwick Frank Chadwick is an American multiple-award-winning game designer and ''New York Times'' best selling author. He has designed hundreds of games, his most notable being the role-playing games ''En Garde!'', '' Space: 1889'' and ''Twilight 2000' ...

*1986 -

Lou Zocchi Louis Zocchi is a gaming hobbyist, former game distributor and publisher, and maker and seller of polyhedral game dice. In 1986, he was elected to the Charles Roberts Awards Hall of Fame. Career Lou Zocchi was one of the first editors for Av ...

*1987 -

Richard Berg Richard Harvey Berg (1943 – July 26, 2019) was a prolific American wargame designer. He was inducted into the Charles Roberts Awards Hall of Fame in 1987. Early life, army, student and lawyer Richard Berg was born in New York City. ...

*1988 -

Ty Bomba Tyrone S. Bomba is a prolific American board wargame designer, credited as the designer of over 125 board wargames and game items. Bomba is the recipient of the James F. Dunnigan Award, has been inducted into the Charles Roberts Awards Hall of F ...

*1989 - Joseph Balkoski *1990 - Jack Greene *1991 - Mark Herman *1992 - Larry Hoffman *1993 - Dean Essig *1994 - Don Greenwood *1995 - Chris Perello *1996 -

Ted Raicer Ted S. Raicer is a game designer who has worked on board games. He became a board wargamer at the age of 12 years and has published more than 10 games based on World War I. Raicer has won many awards in his gaming career. Early life and career ...

*1997 - Dave Powell *1998 - Vance von Borries *2000 - Winston Hamilton *2001 -

Joseph Miranda Joseph Anthony Miranda (December 7, 1923 – December 24, 2014) was an American mobster and member of the New Jersey-based DeCavalcante crime family. A longtime "soldier" to Simone "Sam the Plumber" DeCavalcante and later boss Giovanni Riggi, ...

*2002 -

Mark Simonitch Mark Simonitch (born December 30, 1957) is an American wargame designer and graphic artist. His game designs include ''Hannibal: Rome vs. Carthage'' and ''Ardennes '44'', and he has made maps for ''Wilderness War'' and ''Empire of the Sun'' among ...

*2003 - Kevin Zucker *2004 - JD Webster *2009 - John Butterfield *2010 -

Richard Borg Richard Borg is a game designer who has designed many wargames. In 2010, he was elected to the Charles Roberts Awards Hall of Fame. Games that Richard Borg has designed or co-designed include the following: * '' Liar's Dice'', 1993 Spiel de ...

*2011 - Ed Wimble *2012 - Brian Youse *2013-2018 - No award *2019 - Paul Banner *2020 - Walter Vejdovsky *2021 - Chad Jensen

Footnotes

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External links

Hall of Fame
webpage. Charles S. Roberts Awards website * Game awards Halls of fame in Maryland Awards established in 1974