Geeklist: 2005 finalists for IGA


A while back, I was asked to be part of the judging for something called The “Gamer’s Choice Award”, since then morphed into the International Gamers Award. It’s kind of fun, tabulating the stuff that gets published every year, being part of the balloting process and fighting with the other members of the committee for your own favorite. For your amusement, this years’ list of candidates (the first list, what we choose the top ten finalists from) is presented below. I think it’s handy because this helps me focus for the GAMES 100 selections I usually have to make in June. This year is a smaller list than usual, but I like the large number of grass roots effort (and free, published on the web games) being recognized this year. One of them, Chevauchee (a free game of medieval combat), will be on my finalist list.

The deadline for submitting your list is: MARCH 15, 2005.

From these submissions, we will determine the list of finalists.

Thanks so much for your participation!

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Ad Astra
Attack Vector Tactical

Alea magazine (Ludopress)
#29: Nordkapp: Arctic convoys

Against the Odds magazine (ATO)
#7: A Dark and Bloody Ground
#8: Fortress Berlin
#9: Suleiman the Magnificent
#10: Into a Bear Trap

Armchair General Magazine
#1: Operation Iraqi Freedom (free web game)
#2: Lee at Gettysburg
#3: Omaha: Battle for the Beach
#4: Brothers by my Side
#5: Guildford Courthouse
#6: [no game]

Australian Design Group
7 Ages
Days of Decision III (reprint)

Avalanche
Cruiser Warfare (in the Great War at Sea series)
Defiant Russia: Operation Barbarossa, 1941
Desert Rats (in the Panzer Grenadier series)
Dreadnoughts (scenario book)
Tears of the Dragon

AWE
Austerlitz (in Vive l’Empereur series)

Bro Games
The Cossacks are Coming! (reprint)

BSO
East-West
Highlander
Louisiana Tigers (in the Civil War Tactical System)

Clash of Arms
Barons’ War
Dawn of the Rising Sun (in the Fear God and Dread Nought series)
Cool Stuff Unlimited

Fall of Tobruk (reprint)
Verdun (reprint)

Lou Coatney
Stalingrad Attacked (free web game)

Columbia Games
Gettysburg: Badges of Courage
Rommel in the Desert (reprint)

Command and Strategy magazine (UGG)
#1: Pearl Harbor (part 1, in Empires of the Apocalypse series)

Counterattack magazine (Pacific Rim Publishing)
#4.1: Korea 2005 (expansion for Korea ’95)

Critical Hit
Basic Game – Infantry (in the Advanced Tobruk System)
Combat! Kursk, Clash Along the Psel (update of Combat: Kursk!, in the
Advanced Tobruk System)
D-Day: The Great Crusade
Darkest December: Battle of the Bulge 1944 (in the Advanced Tobruk System)
Panther Line (in the Advanced Tobruk System)
Rudder’s Line
Santa Maria Infante (in the Advanced Tobruk System)
Stalingrad (update of Combat: Stalingrad, in the Advanced Tobruk System)
Tankers Guide (in the Advanced Tobruk System)

Days of Wonder
Memoir ’44

Decision Games
Deluxe Trajan (reprint)
Deluxe USN (updated ed.)
Empires of the Middle Ages (reprint)
Lightning D-Day
Lightning Midway
War Between the States, 1861-1865 (reprint)
The Western Front: 1914-1918 (in the Der Weltkrieg series)

Excalibur Games
Kaiserschlacht 1918 (reprint)
To the Green Fields Beyond (reprint)

Fanatic Games (all Advanced Squad Leader add-ons)
Leningrad Pack Scenario Pack
French AFV Cards
Italian AFV Cards
Chinese AFV Cards
Blitzkrieg Pack

Fiery Dragon
Arriba Espana (reprint)
Autumn Mist
Battle for China (reprint)

Flying Buffalo
WMD (expansion for Nuclear War)

Franc Tireur (all Advanced Squad Leader add-ons)
# 8:Normandy
From the Cellar scenario pack

Gio Games
War to Axis: Warfare in Normandy
Yankees & Rebels

GMT
Borodino, Battle of the Moskova, 1812 (in the Triumph & Glory series)
The Devil’s Horsemen (in the Great Battles of History series)
Downtown
Churubusco (free web game, uses Gringo! game system)
Gringo!
Paths of Glory (reprint)
Roads to Leningrad
Sword of Rome
Three Days of Gettysburg (in the Great Battles of the American Civil War
series, reprint)

Grenier Games
World War II in the East
World War II in the West

Hasbro
Axis & Allies (revised ed.)
Axis & Allies: D-Day

Chester Hendrix
First Blood: the Gaudalcanal Campaign (free web game, reprint)

Home Grown Designs
I Fights Mit Sigel (in the Rebel Yell series)

Khyber Pass
Ataturk!
Battle of Maiwand
Castro: The Cuban Revolution, 1958-59
Che: Failed Revolution, Bolivia 1967

L2
Deluxe Bitter Woods Expansion Kit
Russia Besieged
Southern Expansion Kit (for The Russian Campaign)

Lost Battalion
Battleships in Action
Combat Soldiers: In the Battle of the Bulge
Sergeants!
Stalingrad Campaign Upper Echelon Set

Microgame Design Group
Byzantium Reborn
Target Damascus (free web game, scenario for No Middle Ground)

MMP
Advanced Squad Leader Starter Kit #1 (in the Advanced Squad Leader series)
DAK2 (in the Operational Combat series, reprint)
A Fearful Slaughter (in the Civil War Regimental series)
Three Battles of Manassas (in the Civil War Brigade series, based on August
Fury)

Dubious Designs (free web games)
Armies at Lutzen
Castles of Steel
Chevauchee

Naval Warfare Simulations Wargames
Battleships Zenith
World War One Expansion Pack #1: Tsushima

Nexus
Wings of War: Famous Aces

Perry Moore
200 Miles from Moscow!
Bir Buyuk Turk Saldiri
Operation Eisbar 1943

OSG
The Seven Days of 1809 (in the Six Days of Glory series)

Panzerschreck magazine (Minden Games)
#12: Drive on Leningrad/Masada/Invasion
#13: Tsaritsyn/Assault On Cherbourg/Graf Spee

Phalanx Games
Der Erste Weltkrieg
Naval Battles
Revolution: the Dutch Revolt (limited ed.)

Pinnacle Games
Fields Of Honour: the American War of Independence

Ragnar Brothers
Viking Fury

Red Sash Games
Charlies’ Year (revised ed)
The Highland Quorum (module for Charlie’s Year)

Schutze Games
Vicksburg

Shrapnel Games
ANZAC Attack

Six Angles
#9: War for the Motherland

Strategy and Tactics
#220: Group of Soviet Forces Germany
#221: The Seven Years World War
#222: The Ottomans
#223: 1918: Imperial Germany’s Last Chance
#224: The Sedan Campaign
#225: Twilight’s Last Gleaming 2

Vae Victis magazine (Histoire et Collections)
#55: Solferino 1859
#56: Semper Victor
#57: D-Day 1944
#58: Austerlitz 1805
#59: Alsace 1944
#60: Pour Dieu et pour le Roy

Warfrog
Struggle of Empires

Worthington Games
Victoria Cross: The Battle of Rorke’s Drift