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July 20, 2008
2007 CSR Award Nominees
Announcing the 2007 Charles S. Roberts Award Nominees. The CSR Award winners will be presented at the 2008 World Boardgaming Championships.
Here are your official nominees, listed in alphabetical order.
Best Pre-World War II Boardgame
» 1914: Twilight in the East (GMT Games LLC)
» A Fatal Attraction (Against the Odds)
» Habit of Victory, The (OSG)
» Talavera (MMP/The Gamers)
» Marne 1918: Friedensturm (Hexasim)
Best World War II Boardgame
» Asia Engulfed (GMT Games LLC)
» Case Blue (MMP/The Gamers)
» Combat Commander: Vol. II - Med (GMT Games LLC)
» Corps Command: Totensonntag (Lock n' Load Publishing)
» Overlord: D-Day and the Beachhead Battles (NES)
» Red Star Rising (MMP/IGS)
Best Modern Era Boardgame
» Biafra (ATO 2007 Annual)
» Jerusalem (Cool Stuff Unlimited)
» Sea Lords (Strategy & Tactics #243)
» World at War: Eisenbach Gap (Lock 'n Load Publishing)
Best Magazine-Published Boardgame
» A Fatal Attraction (Against the Odds #20)
» Look Away! (Against the Odds 2007 Annual)
» Not War But Murder (Against the Odds #19)
» Sea Lords (Strategy & Tactics #243/DG)
» Twilight of the Ottomans (Strategy & Tactics #241/DG)
Best DTP-Produced Boardgame
» Blackshirt (BSO Games)
» Jerusalem (Cool Stuff Unlimited)
» Prairie Aflame (Khyber Pass Games)
» Rosebud: Prelude to Little Bighorn (Khyber Pass Games)
Best Wargame Graphics
» 1914: Twilight in the East (GMT Games LLC)
» Case Blue (MMP/The Gamers)
» Habit of Victory, The (OSG)
» Overlord: D-Day and the Beachhead Battles (NES)
» Prussia's Defiant Stand (Worthington Games)
» Red Star Rising (MMP/IGS)
Best Professional Wargame Magazine
» Against The Odds
» C3i (RBM Studio)
» Paper Wars (Omega Games)
» Strategy & Tactics (Decision Games)
» Vae Victis
Best Amateur Wargame Magazine
» Frog of War Newsletter
» Line of Departure (James Werbaneth)
» Panzer Digest (Gary Graber, Minden Games)
» Panzerschreck (Gary Graber, Minden Games)
» Simualcrum (John Kula)
Best Game Review or Game Analysis
» Against the Odds #19: The Evolution of Cards and Wargames, by John Prados
» C3I #19, Combat Commander: Briefing on Scenario 10, by Chad & Kai Jensen and John Foley
» C3I #19, Combat Commander: Up Close and Personal, by John Foley
» C3I #19, For the People: Opening Moves, by Mark Herman
» Operations #52: A Victory Lost, Series Replay, by Pat Hirtle and Jon Gautier
Best Historical or Scenario Article
» Against the Odds #19, Not War But Murder: The Cold Harbor Campaign - 1864, by Michael Rinella
» Against the Odds #20, A Fatal Attraction: The Gallipoli Campaign, by Paul Rourbaugh
» Against the Odds #20, Beating the Odds at Long Tan, by Mal Wright
» Strategy & Tactics #244, Moscow 1941: Guderian vs. Hitler, by Joseph Miranda
» Strategy & Tactics #245, Fall of France, 1940: Myths & Reality, by John Burtt
James F. Dunnigan Award
To a Game Designer, Developer, Graphic Artist or Game for outstanding achievement
» Craig Grando, Graphic Artist, Against the Odds magazine
» Dean Essig, Designer, Case Blue and OCS series (MMP/The Gamers)
» Chad Jensen, Designer, Combat Commander series (GMT Games LLC)
» Bowen Simmons, Designer, Napoleon's Triumph (Simmons Games)
» Rick Young, Designer, Asia Engulfed (GMT Games LLC)
Best Pre-20th Century Era Computer Wargame
winner only to be announced at WBC
Best 20th Century Era Computer Wargame
winner only to be announced at WBC
Note: The 2007 CSR Awards will not be declaring an inductee for the Clausewitz Hall of Fame
We'd like to congratulate all 2007 CSR Award Nominees on being selected. The Official CSR Awards website contains a listing of all the past winners, along with updates, news, history, and other information on the CSR Awards. The webmaster is Alan Emrich.
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Comments
I'm glad to see Prairie Aflame recognised but there is nothing DTP about this game. This game was Khyber Pass Games first professionaly done game. Just because it came in a plastic sleeve does not make it DTP. The counters are die cut, the map professionaly done, and the artwork is quite nice, so why again is this game considerd dtp?? I seem to recall MIH's All Quiet on the Western Front origianlly came in a plastic sleeve and folio and yet it was considered professional, so why the distinction for PA from KPG?
While we're on the topic of awards and categories, why is it that everything that isn't WWII get's lumped into one voting category? Why note have a category for World War 1 and another for ancients? Or one for gunpowder? In my opinion there are several of the pre-WWII games that are deserving of recognition and to se all of them competing for one award is just wrong.
Posted by: Rob Bottos at July 21, 2008 02:42 AM
I agree with Rob. I'd like to see more categories in the Charlies, just as several years ago: ancients, gunpowder, ACW, etc... and why not? sci-fi and fantasy as wargames. Anyway I know this (chosen categories) can be very subjective and lead to an endless discussion. Just my opinion.
Good luck to all nominees!
Posted by: Jordi Cairol at July 21, 2008 03:52 PM
Roughly 1/2 of games published are World War 2. So, if there is going to be 2 categories, WWII and all other make sense. With 3 categories, WWII, before and modern don't hold weight any longer (they did during the Cold War perhaps, but, not now). So, yes, something needs to be done with the categories so that they are at least somewhat reflective of the splits in games actually published today. How many categories? Yeah, there is room for debate. Would like to see the committee solicit some opinions and then revise the categories.
Posted by: Herr Dr at July 21, 2008 09:28 PM
Well I have suggested it on BGG, but I think the best solution would be to do it like the booker prize. Basically you have one overall winner for perhaps the games part, but you can have shortlists. This way it doesn't advantage any particular category.
Posted by: Colin at July 22, 2008 03:55 AM
Wasn't "A Fatal Attraction" a magazine game? Given that there is only one category for *all* games prior to World War II, it seems very unfair and weird to put a magazine game in this category.
Posted by: Paul at July 22, 2008 04:32 PM
A Fatal Attraction was indeed a magazine game but that's not my point. Of the 5 games in the pre-WWI class, 3 are WWI games and the remaining two are Napoleonic games. How many other WWI or Napoleonic games didn't make the cut? Given the apparent resurgence in the popularity of WWI it could easily garner it's own category. I've misplaced my list of games published in 2007, but I'd be interested to see a breakdown of games by period. Let's say:
Pre-gunpowder - to include Ancients and Medieval.
Age of Rifles - to include Musket and Pike and Napoleonics, and American Civil War and things such as the Indian and Colonial Wars of the late 19th and early 20th century.
World War I
World War II
Post WWII - modern.
Posted by: Rob Bottos at July 22, 2008 05:46 PM
I have a PROBLEM here.
These aren't really the NOMINEES, are they? The votes have been cast and the totals calculated. Indeed, there will be no more voting and the winner has been determined (just not announced.)
Well, if these games were NOMINEES, I would expect a round of voting to dtermine the winner (at least, a round of something.)
Rightly, these games are FINALISTS! There will be no more voting, all that is left is the announcements.
Take the Academy Awards, for example. One group of voters determines the NOMINEES, then another group (I think all members) vote on them to dtermine the winners, so, in this sense they were really nominated for the award.
Anyways, who cares?
Posted by: Jacko at July 24, 2008 05:33 PM
The Oscars/Hollywood uses the term "nominees" as well after the voting has ended before announcing the winner. This has been the tradition of the CSR Awards since its inception way back when.
Posted by: John Kranz at July 24, 2008 10:24 PM
