S. Craig Taylor Jr. was an American game designer who has worked primarily on

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s and wargames.

Career

S. Craig Taylor Jr. first had a playtest credit on the 1962 version of

Avalon Hill Avalon Hill Games Inc. is a game company that publishes wargames and strategic board games. It has also published miniature wargaming rules, role-playing games and sports simulations. It is a subsidiary of Hasbro, and operates under the company' ...

's version of '' Bismarck''. Stephen Peek and Craig Taylor worked for wargame company Battleline Publications, which later merged into

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to speed its growth; when that did not work out Peek and Taylor took the opportunity to form

Yaquinto Publications Yaquinto Publications was the wargame publishing arm of the Robert Yaquinto Printing Company of Dallas, Texas. History Yaquinto Publications was started by Robert Yaquinto Printing early in the year 1979. In March 1979 Robert Yaquinto hired S ...

, a new wargame publisher. Taylor has been a playtester, designer, developer, researcher, rules writer, and producer for well over 100 board, miniature, card, and computer games for such publishers Battleline, Yaquinto, Avalon Hill,

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, Imagic,

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, Lost Battalion Games, and

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. Taylor's credits include such designs as ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Flattop'', ''Battle'', '' Wings'', '' Gettysburg: Smithsonian Edition'', ''

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'', '' Battlegroup'', and ''Gettysburg: Leading the Killer Angels''.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Taylor, S. Craig 1946 births 2012 deaths Board game designers