Charles S. Roberts Awards

Charles S. Roberts Awards - since 1974 - United States











The Charles S. Roberts awards are presented at the World Boardgaming Championships (July/August) since 2000. Before that they were presented at Origins (July) and until 1987 a part of the Origins Awards.

Categories:

- Best Professional Game (1974-1975)
- Best Amateur Game (1974-1978)
- Best Professional Wargame Magazine (1974)
- Best Amateur Wargame Magazine (1974)
- Clausewitz Hall of Fame (1974)
- Best Graphics and Physical Systems (1976-1978)
- Best Tactical Game (1976-1977)
- Best Strategic Game (1976-1977)
- Best Fantasy/Science Fiction Board Game (1977-1986)
- Best Pre-Twentieth Century Game (1978-1986)
- Best Twentieth Century Game (1978-1986)
- Best Initial Release (1979-1981)
- Gamers Choice Award (1980-1980)
- Best Computer Game (1980-1986)
- Best Graphic Presentation in an Adventure Game (1984-1986)
- Best Wargame Graphics (1987)
- Best Pre-Twentieth Century Computer Wargame (1987)
- Best Twentieth Century Computer Wargame (1987)
- Best Game Review or Analysis Article (1987)
- Best Historical / Opinion / Variant / Scenario / Interview Article (1987)
- Best Pre-World War II Boardgame (1987)
- Best World War II Boardgame (1987)
- Best Modern Era Boardgame / Best Post World War II Boardgame (1987)
- James F. Dunnigan Award (1989)
- Best DTP-Produced Boardgame (1999)
- Best Magazine-Published Boardgame (1999)

Categories in red are not mentioned in this site - you'll find them here or here.

Best Modern Era Boardgame

2008 Red Dragon Rising: The Coming War with China

2007 World at War: Eisenbach Gap
2006 Winged Horse: Campaigns in Vietnam, 1965-66
2005 Twilight Struggle
2004 Downtown: Air War Over Hanoi, 1965-1972
2003 Lock 'N Load: Forgotten Heroes Vietnam
2002 Indochina & Khe Sanh, 1968
2001 When Dragons Fight
2000 (no award)
1999 (no award)
1998 (no award)
1997 Semper Fi!
1996 (no award)
1995 Yom Kippur
1994 (no award)
1993 Crisis: Korea 1995
1992 Tet '68
1991 Inchon: MacArthur's Gambit & Hornet Leader
1990 Silver Bayonet: The First Team in Vietnam, 1965
1989 Modern Naval Battles
1988 Tac Air
1987 7th Fleet & Central America

Best World War II Boardgame

2008 Conflict of Heroes
2007 Case Blue
2006 A Victory Lost
2005 Empire of the Sun
2004 Advanced Squad Leader (ASL) Starter Kit #1
2003 Europe Engulfed
2002 World War II: Barbarossa to Berlin
2001 Barbarossa Army Group North, 1941
2000 Sicily: Triumph and Folly & Ukraine '43
1999 Burma
1998 Invasion Sicily
1997 DAK
1996 Wave Of Terror
1995 Tunisia
1994 Enemy at the Gates
1993 Afrika
1992 Stalingrad Pocket
1991 EastFront
1990 Operation Shoestring: Guadalcanal
1989 Hitler's Last Gamble: The Battle of the Bulge
1988 Tokyo Express
1987 Raid on St. Nazaire

Best Pre-World War II Boardgame

2008 Warriors of God

2007 1914: Twilight in the East
2006 Here I Stand
2005 Bonaparte at Marengo
2004 The Sword of Rome: Conquest of Italy, 362-272 BC
2003 Age of Napoleon
2002 The Napoleonic Wars
2001 Wilderness War
2000 Drive on Paris
1999 Paths of Glory
1998 For the People
1997 All Quiet on the Western Front
1996 Fields of Glory : Oudenarde & Malplaquet
1995 The Great War in Europe
1994 The Battles of Waterloo
1993 When Eagles Fight
1992 SPQR
1991 Alexandros
1990 Kadesh: Mobile Warfare in the Ancient Middle East
1989 The Siege of Jerusalem & A House Divided 2nd Edtion
1988 Lee vs. Grant
1987 Shot and Shell

Best DTP-Produced Boardgame*

2008 June '44

2007 Battle of the Rosebud: Prelude to Little Bighorn - June 17th, 1876
2006 Battle of the Little Bighorn
2005 Death in the Trenches: The Great War, 1914-1918
2004 Louisiana Tigers
2003 Thunder on South Mountain
2002 A Mere Matter of Marching & Togoland 1914
2001 Longbow
2000 Solomon Sea
1999 Bloody Beach: Omaha & Chantilly

* Best Desk Top Published game of the year

Best Magazine-Published Boardgame

2008 Iwo Jima: Rage Against the Marines

2007 Not War But Murder
2006 Kulikovo 1380: The Golden Horde
2005 Chennault's First Fight
2004 Fortress Berlin
2003 Ignorant Armies (Iran-Iraq War)
2002 Indochina
2001 War of 1812
2000 Xenophon: 10,000 Against Persia
1999 Clash of Eagles: Borodino & Friedland

Best Twentieth Century Game

1986 Fortress America
1985 World in Flames
1984 Vietnam 1965-1975
1983 Ambush!
1982 Storm Over Arnhem
1981 Wings
1980 Crescendo of Doom
1979 City-Fight
1978 To the Green Fields Beyond

Best Pre-Twentieth Century Game

1986 Chickamauga: The Confederacy's Last Hope
1985 Pax Britannica
1984 South Mountain
1983 The Civil War
1982 Civilization
1981 A House Divided
1980 Empires of the Middle Ages
1979 Napoleon at Leipzig
1978 Source of the Nile

Best Initial Release

1981 Ironbottom Sound
1980 Streets of Stalingrad
1979 Ironclads

Best Tactical Game

1977 Squad Leader
1976 Terrible Swift Sword

Best Strategic Game

1977 Victory in the Pacific
1976 The Russian Campaign

Best Professional Game

1975 Kingmaker
1974 Third Reich

Best Amateur Game

1978 Source of the Nile
1977 (no award)
1976 (no award)
1975 La Bataille de la Moskowa
1974 Manassas

Gamers Choice Award

1980 Ace of Aces - Handy Rotary Series