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20th century

Origin year places a game in the year its rules were first fixed in writing. Wikipedia notes rugby football's "rules were first put down in written (codified) form in 1845," even though students had already been playing an informal version "since at least the early 1820s." Browsing by origin year separates when a game's rules were formalized from when it was actually first played.

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Era of Origin
1824 1
Defining Characteristic
The game could simulate the fog of war, where the umpire would place on the map blocks only for the troops which were in visual range of both sides. 1
20th century
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1776 (boardgame)

20th century

1918 (wargame)

20th century

A Gleam of Bayonets: The Battle of Antietam

20th century

A Line in the Sand (board game)

20th century

A Mighty Fortress (wargame)

20th century

Adeptus Titanicus

20th century

Advanced Third Reich

20th century

Agincourt (game)

20th century

Air Assault on Crete

20th century

Air War (game)

20th century

Alexander the Great (board game)

20th century

Alpha Omega (board game)

20th century

Ancient Conquest

20th century

Ancients (board game)

20th century

Apocalypse: The Game of Nuclear Devastation

20th century

Arms Race (game)

20th century

Asteroid Zero-Four

20th century

Atlanta (board game)

20th century

Avalanche: The Salerno Landings

20th century

Axis & Allies

20th century

Azhanti High Lightning

20th century

Balaclava: The Charge of the Light Brigade

20th century

BAOR (game)

20th century

Bastogne and the Battle of the Ardennes

20th century

Bataille de la Marne 1914

20th century

Battle for Germany

20th century

Battle for Hue (wargame)

20th century

Battle Over Britain

20th century

Battle-Cry (Milton Bradley game)

20th century

Battlefleet Gothic

20th century

BattleSpace

20th century

Battlestar Galactica (board game)

20th century

Battlesuit (game)

20th century

Black Hole (board game)

20th century

Bloody Buna

20th century

Bobby Lee (game)

20th century

Breakout & Pursuit: The Battle for France, 1944

20th century

Broadsides and Boarding Parties

20th century

Bug Hunter (game)

20th century

Bug-Eyed Monsters

20th century

Bulge (game)

20th century

Burma (wargame)

20th century

Chinese Civil War (wargame)

20th century

Chinese Farm (board game)

20th century

Cityfight: Modern Combat in the Urban Environment

20th century

Clan War

20th century

Classic BattleTech

20th century

Combined Arms (game)

20th century

Confrontation (Rackham)

20th century

Conquistador (game)

20th century

Dawn of the Dead (game)

20th century

Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (game)

20th century

Demonworld

20th century

Descent on Crete

20th century

Desert Falcons (board game)

20th century

Destruction of Army Group Center

20th century

Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei

20th century

Diplomacy

20th century

Direct Conflict in Dimension Six

20th century

Dixie (board wargame)

20th century

Don't Give Up the Ship (game)

20th century

Double Star (board game)

20th century

Drang Nach Osten!

20th century

Drive on Stalingrad: Battle for Southern Russia Game

20th century

Dune (board game)

20th century

Eagles (wargame)

20th century

Emperor of China (game)

20th century

Empires in Arms

20th century

Epic (tabletop game)

20th century

Epic 40,000

20th century

Escape from Colditz

20th century

EuroFront

20th century

Europa (wargame)

20th century

Europa Universalis (board game)

20th century

Fast Attack Boats

20th century

Federation and Empire

20th century

Feudal (game)

20th century

Fight in the Skies

20th century

Fire in the East

20th century

Flying Tigers (game)

20th century

Four Battles in North Africa

20th century

Fredericksburg: The Union Repulsed

20th century

Friedland 1807

20th century

Game of the Generals

20th century

Give Me Liberty!

20th century

Glory (wargame)

20th century

Gorkamorka

20th century

Great War at Sea: U.S. Navy Plan Orange

20th century

Guerilla (wargame)

20th century

Gulf Strike (board game)

20th century

Heart of Oak: Naval Miniatures for the Age of Fighting Sail

20th century

Heavy Gear

20th century

Helltank Destroyer

20th century

Hitler's Last Gamble

20th century

Hitler's War (game)

20th century

I Will Fight No More... Forever

20th century

I.C.B.M. (board game)

20th century

Ice War

20th century

Imperium (board game)

20th century

Indian Ocean Adventure: The Japanese Raids on Ceylon

20th century

It (board game)

20th century

Judge Dredd (board game)

20th century

Jutland (board game)

20th century

Kasserine: Baptism of Fire

20th century

Kingmaker (board game)

20th century

Kings & Castles

20th century

Kriegsmarine (board game)

20th century

Kursk (board game)

20th century

Kursk: Operation Zitadelle

20th century

La Bataille d'Albuera: Espagnol

20th century

La Bataille de Corunna-Espagnol

20th century

La Bataille de la Moscowa

20th century

Landsknecht (game)

20th century

Lankhmar (board game)

20th century

Laserburn

20th century

L'Attaque

20th century

Lee vs. Grant: The Wilderness Campaign of 1864

20th century

Les Aigles

20th century

Lightning Strike (game)

20th century

Ligny: Incomplete Victory

20th century

Little Big Horn: Custer's Last Stand

20th century

London's Burning (game)

20th century

Lords of the Middle Sea

20th century

Lost Battles: Operational Combat in Russia

20th century

Lost Victory

20th century

Luftwaffe (board wargame)

20th century

Machiavelli (board game)

20th century

Man O' War (game)

20th century

Mayday (game)

20th century

Midway (1991 game)

20th century

Mighty Empires

20th century

Missile Boat (wargame)

20th century

Modern Naval Battles

20th century

Modern Naval Battles II: The Campaign Game

20th century

Moon Base Clavius

20th century

Mukden: Sino-Soviet Combat in the '70s

20th century

Napoleon at Bay

20th century

Napoleon at War

20th century

Napoleon's Last Triumph

20th century

Naval War

20th century

Nebula 19

20th century

Necromunda

20th century

Objective: Atlanta

20th century

Ogre (board game)

20th century

Oil War: American Intervention in the Persian Gulf

20th century

Olympica

20th century

Overlord (wargame)

20th century

Panzer Leader (game)

20th century

Panzer Pranks

20th century

PanzerBlitz

20th century

Patrol (board game)

20th century

Patton's 3rd Army

20th century

Patton's Best

20th century

Paydirt (game)

20th century

Pizza Wars Imperium

20th century

Plan Táctico y Estratégico de la Guerra

20th century

PRESTAGS

20th century

Quatre Bras: Stalemate on the Brussels Road

20th century

Quazar (board game)

20th century

Quebec 1759 (block wargame)

20th century

Red Star/White Star: Tactical Combat in Europe in the 1970s

20th century

Renegade Legion

20th century

Revolt On Antares

20th century

Rise and Decline of the Third Reich

20th century

Risk

20th century

Rivets (board game)

20th century

Rocroi (wargame)

20th century

Rome at War series

20th century

Samurai Blades

20th century

Scourge of God (wargame)

20th century

Seapower & the State

20th century

Search & Destroy: Tactical Combat Vietnam 1965-1966

20th century

Shiloh: The Battle for Tennessee

20th century

Shockforce: Battles in the Remnants of America

20th century

Shogun (1986 board game)

20th century

Siege of Bodenburg

20th century

Sigma Omega

20th century

Sinai: The Arab-Israeli Wars

20th century

Sixth Fleet (wargame)

20th century

Sixth Fleet: Modern Naval Combat in the Mediterranean

20th century

Sniper! (board game)

20th century

Space Fleet

20th century

Space Hulk

20th century

Space Raid!

20th century

Spartan: Tactical Warfare in the Hellenistic Age, 500-100BC

20th century

SPQR (board game)

20th century

Squad Leader

20th century

Stalingrad (wargame)

20th century

Star Fighter (board game)

20th century

Star Fleet Battles

20th century

Starfire (board wargame)

20th century

StarForce: Alpha Centauri

20th century

Starguard!

20th century

Starleader: Assault!

20th century

Starwars (board game)

20th century

Stomp! (game)

20th century

Stratego

20th century

Submarine (wargame)

20th century

Supremacy (board game)

20th century

Tactics (game)

20th century

Tannenberg (wargame)

20th century

Team Yankee (board game)

20th century

Terror of the Lichemaster

20th century

The 20th Maine

20th century

The American Civil War: 1861-1865

20th century

The Battle of Borodino: Napoleon in Russia 1812

20th century

The Battle of Nations (wargame)

20th century

The Battles of Waterloo (game)

20th century

The Campaign for North Africa

20th century

The Creature That Ate Sheboygan

20th century

The Dragonlords

20th century

The Fall of South Vietnam (game)

20th century

The Fast Carriers

20th century

The Golden Horde (board game)

20th century

The Great Khan Game

20th century

The Great Redoubt

20th century

The Great War in the East

20th century

The Last Crusade (collectible card game)

20th century

The March on India, 1944

20th century

The Next War (board game)

20th century

The Omega War

20th century

The Peloponnesian War (wargame)

20th century

The Rise of the Luftwaffe

20th century

The Siege of Leningrad (game)

20th century

The Succession Wars

20th century

The Thin Red Line (wargame)

20th century

The War at Sea

20th century

The Wilderness (wargame)

20th century

Thirty Years War (wargame)

20th century

Tobruk (board game)

20th century

Tokyo Express: The Guadalcanal Naval Campaign - 1942

20th century

Tomorrow the World (board game)

20th century

Trial of Strength

20th century

Troy (game)

20th century

Tunisia (board game)

20th century

Turning Point: Stalingrad

20th century

Up Front (game)

20th century

Veracruz: U.S. Invasion of Mexico 1847

20th century

Viking (game)

20th century

Wacht am Rhein (game)

20th century

War Between the States 1861-1865

20th century

War in Europe (game)

20th century

War of the Star Slavers

20th century

Warhammer (game)

20th century

Warhammer 40,000

20th century

Warhammer Ancient Battles

20th century

Warsaw Rising (game)

20th century

Warzone (game)

20th century

We the People (boardgame)

20th century

West of Alamein

20th century

White Bear and Red Moon

20th century

White Death (board game)

20th century

Wizard's Quest

20th century

Wolfpack (wargame)

20th century

Wooden Ships and Iron Men

20th century

World in Flames

20th century

World War I: 1914-1918

20th century

Zargo's Lords

20th century
FAQs

Why isn't Risk classified alongside Chess in this atlas?

Risk is a modern designed game with no historical chess-family lineage, so it sits apart from Chess and its relatives.

Modern Conquest and War Games covers 20th-century commercial games of territorial conquest or negotiation among players, such as Diplomacy, Risk and Stratego, that were designed without a traditional chess-family lineage. Chess and its historical relatives are grouped instead under Chess-Family War Games because they descend from or parallel the ancient game of Chaturanga.
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Kriegsspiel
Wikipedia
  • Kriegsspiel, Reisswitz Jr. perfects Kriegsspiel (1824) section
    In early 1824, the prince invited Reisswitz Jr. to present his wargame to the king.
  • Kriegsspiel, Reisswitz Jr. perfects Kriegsspiel (1824) section, fog of war sentence
    The game could simulate the fog of war, where the umpire would place on the map blocks only for the troops which were in visual range of both sides.
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