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1974 In Games
__NOTOC__ This page lists board and card games, wargames, miniatures games, and tabletop role-playing games published in 1974. For video games, see 1974 in video gaming. Games released or invented in 1974 Game awards given in 1974 *Charles S. Roberts Award for Best Professional Game of 1974: ''Rise and Decline of the Third Reich'' Significant games-related events of 1974 *West End Games founded. References See also * 1974 in video gaming {{DEFAULTSORT:1974 In Games Games A game is a Structure, structured type of play (activity), play usually undertaken for entertainment or fun, and sometimes used as an Educational game, educational tool. Many games are also considered to be Work (human activity), work (such as p ... Games by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingmaker (board Game)
''Kingmaker'' is a board game published in the UK by PhilMar Ltd. in 1974 that simulates the political struggles to place a king on the throne of England during the Wars of the Roses. The game was popular, and other editions, including a computerized version, were produced by Avalon Hill, TM Games, and Gibsons Games. The game won a Charles S. Roberts Award in 1976. Description ''Kingmaker'' is a board game for 2–7 players in which each player controls one or more royal families in 15th-century England. Through war, diplomacy, and politics, the players attempt to gain control of one or more members of the two rival royal families, the House of Lancaster and the House of York, to place one of them on the throne of England while eliminating all other "pretenders." Components * a map board of 15th century England and nearby lands, marked with walled cities, towns, castles, forests, and roads. Rather than using a hex grid, the map is divided into square areas. * a deck of Event ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West End Games
West End Games (WEG) was a company that made board, role-playing, and war games. It was founded by Daniel Scott Palter in 1974 in New York City, but later moved to Honesdale, Pennsylvania. Its product lines included ''Star Wars'', ''Paranoia'', '' Torg'', ''DC Universe'', and '' Junta''. History Scott Palter received a JD from Stanford in 1972 and joined the New York State Bar before he began work at the family firm, Bucci Imports. Drawing on this financial connection, Palter was able to found West End Games, named after the bar in which the meeting that finalized its founding occurred: the West End Bar near Columbia University. Initially a producer of board wargames, In 1983, Palter hired Ken Rolston, Eric Goldberg and Greg Costikyan as game designers, and WEG's focus turned away from traditional wargames. Costikyan's 1983 game '' Bug-Eyed Monsters'' brought WEG into the science-fiction and fantasy genres. Then Costikyan and Goldberg brought Palter a manuscript fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Roberts Awards
The Charles S. Roberts Awards (or CSR Awards) is an annual award for excellence in manual, tabletop games, with a focus on "conflict simulations", which includes simulations of non-military as well as military conflicts. From its founding in 1975 through 2021, the award was almost exclusively focused on historical wargaming, changing to a broader "conflict simulations" in award year 2022 (calendar year 2023). It is named in honor of Charles S. Roberts the "Father of Wargaming" who founded Avalon Hill. The award is informally called a "Charlie" and officially called a "Charles S. Roberts Award". '' The Wargamer'' magazine called it "very prestigious". The Award is managed by the Charles S. Roberts Award Committee which has no commercial sponsorship, made up of designers, writers and hobbyists. It is a "people's award" with winners chosen through votes submitted by fans. History Created at the first Origins Game Convention in 1975, the awards were the brainchild of Canadian game ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wooden Ships And Iron Men
''Wooden Ships and Iron Men'' is a naval board wargame simulating naval combat during the Age of Sail that was published by Battleline Publications in 1974, then revised and republished by Avalon Hill the following year. Name The name should come from the phrase attributed to Austrian admiral Wilhelm von Tegetthoff about the battle of Lissa «Wooden ships commanded by men with iron heads defeated iron ships commanded by men with wooden heads», with which he wanted to ascribe the defeat's responsibility to the inept Italian commands, in particular to Carlo Pellion di Persano. Description ''Wooden Ships and Iron Men'' is a two-player game that simulates naval combat in the 18th and 19th centuries between individual ships as well as with larger fleet actions. The 1975 Avalon Hill edition of the game has 23 scenarios, including the Battles of The Saintes, the Nile, and Trafalgar, as well as smaller and lesser known actions. (Avalon Hill published a further nine scenarios in va ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warriors Of Mars (game)
''Warriors of Mars'' is a 1974 miniatures wargame rule book, written by Gary Gygax and Brian Blume and published by Tactical Studies Rules. It simulates combat in the fantasy world of Barsoom, originally imagined by Edgar Rice Burroughs in his series of novels about John Carter of Mars. It is a 56-page booklet in the same style as the original ''Dungeons & Dragons'' books, even sharing the same artist Greg Bell.Steve Zieser"Warriors of Mars" ''Iron Rationales'', August 28, 2010 Gygax and TSR published the rules without permission from Burroughs estate and soon after its release they issued a cease and desist order A cease and desist letter is a document sent by one party, often a business, to warn another party that they believe the other party is committing an unlawful act, such as copyright infringement, and that they will take legal action if the other ... and the game was pulled from distribution. Peterson notes that TSR never gave a reason for the lack of a reprint, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The War Of The Worlds II
''The War of the Worlds II'' is a science fiction board wargame for 2-3 players designed by Phil Orbanes Sr. and published by Rand Game Associates in 1974 that simulates planetary conquest. In the year 2000, each player's race has simultaneously arrived at the Altair system, which contains five uninhabited resource-rich planets. The players fight for the right to own the most planets. Although the title is nearly identical to the novel about an invasion from Mars by H.G. Wells, the two works have no connection. Gameplay ''The War of the Worlds II'' is played on a circular grid game board with local planetary space for each of the five planets, which have their own pieces and revolve in circular orbits. Each player has three command vessels they can use to enter local planetary space and attack players, as well as a number of base, station, and interceptor pieces which can be placed openly on planets or hidden on ships. By spending a turn, a player can use command ships to build ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stellar Conquest
''Stellar Conquest'' is a science fiction board game published by Metagaming Concepts in 1974. Description ''Stellar Conquest'' is a science fiction board game for 2–4 players that is a prototype of the 4X strategy game genre. The game features various interstellar ship types that are used to transfer populations around the game's universe, populate planets, and ultimately defeat opponents by slowly improving technology, movement, and offensive capabilities. The board The board is a hex grid map containing stars of varying colors. Stars may have planets that are suitable for colonization. Blue stars can feature stellar nurseries or areas undergoing accretion, which impedes movement through those hexes. Basic rules Each player starts in an opposite corner of the board, each with a number of markers that represent ships of various types. For the first four turns the corner square counts as a populated planet. In addition, all ships may move only two spaces, but it is possible ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Starguard!
''Starguard!'' is a 1974 miniatures wargame created by Michael Kurtick and Jon McEwan and published by McEwan Miniatures. It is a game of tactical-level ground combat of the future. The games ''Star War 2250'' (1975) and ''Orilla: 1st StarGuard Supplement'' (1977) were released as strategic companions to ''Starguard!''. Gameplay Players can play as various alien forces, each of which have different weapons and tables of organization and equipment (TOE's). On a player's turn, they can move and fire and must choose the order these operations. Players have infantrymen, treaded vehicles, and anti-gravity vehicles with different speeds they can use to move around the model map. When firing, a die is rolled to hit the target and a "penetration roll" is made if the shot succeeds, the values of which are referenced to firing charts. There are a variety of weapons, each of which have different ranges, blast radii, damage, and effects (such as smoke). The winner is the player who destr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rise And Decline Of The Third Reich
''Rise and Decline of the Third Reich'' or more commonly ''Third Reich'' is a grand strategy wargame covering the European theater of World War II, designed by John Prados and released in 1974 by Avalon Hill. Players take on the roles of major powers—Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States—from 1939 to 1946. The game was popular because of the balance between economics, politics, and land, sea, air and strategic warfare. Players can try alternate history strategies (''e.g.'', a German invasion of Spain or the United Kingdom). The game is complex and can take many hours to complete. Revised editions of the game were published in the 1980s. A further redesign of the game, '' Advanced Third Reich'', was published in 1992, followed by a Pacific theater counterpart, '' Empire of the Rising Sun'', in 1995. In 2003, yet another redesign of these two games was published by GMT Games as ''A World at War''. In 2001, Avalanche Press released ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Panzer Leader (game)
''Panzer Leader'' is the sequel to Avalon Hill's ''PanzerBlitz'' game. Gameplay Like its predecessor, it is a tactical platoon level hex and counter board wargame depicting World War II tank and infantry combat on the Western European front. It features 4 geomorphic map tiles, which can be put together in a variety of ways to play the provided scenarios (which are printed on cardstock, showing all the necessary information for a scenario) or home-made scenarios. The 20 provided scenarios cover various battles on the Western Front, with most of the scenarios involving the Normandy campaign or the Battle of the Bulge. Two scenarios cover the amphibious assaults on Omaha and Gold beaches and include special rules for naval fire. While based on PanzerBlitz, the rules were cleaned up and included additional mechanics such as for air attacks and engineers, as well new spotting rules to prevent "PanzerBush" tactics - units could no longer fire from concealment without revealing thems ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Napoleon (board Game)
''Napoleon'', subtitled "The Waterloo Campaign, 1815", is a strategy game, strategic-level block wargame published by Gamma Two Games in 1974 in games, 1974 that simulates the Battle of Waterloo. A number of versions of the game have been produced by Avalon Hill and Columbia Games. Description Instead of cardboard counters, military units are represented by square blocks. The blocks are marked on one side by the unit designation; at the start of the game, these face away from the opposing player so that their exact designation is unknown, simulating the "fog of war." With three armies in play (French, British & allies, and Prussian) the game can be played by either two or three players. The main board shows the area of the battle. When units come into contact, the combat is moved to a smaller board for resolution. Components The number of blocks has varied from edition to edition: * 1st & 2nd editions: 48 blocks * 3rd edition: 84 blocks plus separate blocks for Gebhard Leberecht ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |