Avalon Hill

Avalon Hill was a editor of Board games. This company specialized in the war games and the strategy games on plate. It published also at the time of the booklets of rules for micro war games and proposed also a popular range of sporting simulations. It is today a division of the company Wizards off the Coast, itself become a division of the company Hasbro.

History

The company was born in 1958 when Charles S. Roberts exploited the success of its war game Tactics. With Tactics Roberts created a type of play of plate based on simulations and strategy games. This kind of plays existed already (H.G. Wells had written a booklet of rules called Little Wars), but these plays exclusively used miniature figurines and a ground in 3D (like railway model making).

Avalon Hill was pionnière while inventing for the war games on plate of the concepts such as cutting of the charts out of hexagonal grids, the taking into account of the historical events, the control fields of certain units, the effects of the ground on the moral movement of the troops and the historical events. Such complex plays could be played during days, even of the weeks. In addition, AH developed a system making it possible to the players to play by email.

The most famous play and most popular published by AH was Panzerblitz (1970), drawn for company AH by the young person Jim Dunnigan. Dunnigan was then gone from there to found what was going to become the most important competitor of AH: Simulations Publications Inc. The other well accommodated plays published were The Battle off Midway , Afrika Korps , The Battle off the Bulge and Blitzkrieg . This last play was more than one simple play of drive representing two camps, red and blue and other neutral countries. Many rule-alternatives were create for Blizkrieg.

In the Seventies, AH moved away from the war games to publish plays of sport such as popular the Statis pro . These publications ceased with beginning of the year 90 when emerged on the same topic of the plays on computer. Company AH produced other plays not having anything to see either with the sport or the war, such as Point off Law , Shakespeare, TV Wa and Stocks and Bonds and of which much had been taken again by AH the 3M company in 1975.

Avalon Hill was one of the first companies of play to publish plays on computers, as from 1980. AH adapted a certain number of sets of plates on various platforms ( TRS-80 , Vic-80 , Commodore 64 , APPLE II etc) and various formats (audio cassettes and diskettes 5 ¼). These titles appeared rather popular so that AH still publishes in an occasional way of the plays for computers in the Eighties and Nineties.

Avalon Hill became a branch of Monarch Avalon Printing in 1962 (in order to discharge debts contracted by Roberts), with which it lasted during next the 36 years. Monarch decided to drop the sector from the plays, and dissolves AH at the summer 1998. Hasbro Jeux then acquired the rights of plays AH and om AH for 6 million dollars. Hasbro publishes a selected list now acians plays AH.

Hasbro also republished under name AH of the plays before not create by AH such as Axis and Allies. The plays published under the Hasbro label were conceived to have a broad audience and are directed “specialized players” than the plays published previously. The index of the plays below is separate in two categories according to whether the publication of each play took place before or after the acquisition of AH by Hasbro. Division does not reflect only the change of label but also the development of the play and the philosophy of the market research.

AH had also its own magazine. The General Magazine was published of 1964 to 1988 and proposed many headings: strategic and tactical articles, historical analyzes, article devoteds to with specific plays, questions and answers for such or such play, lists retailers and players, information on the future projects of AH etc, sporting articles or on video games AH.

Plays (Avalon Hill)

(Note that some of these titles were published by independent editors before being republished by AH.)

0-9

1776 - American Revolution (1974)
1830 (1986)
1914 - World War I (1968)

With

Achtung Spitfire! (1997)
Acquire (1962)
Adel Verpflichtet (also published under the name By Hook Gold Crook ) (1991)
Advanced Squad Leader (1985)
Advanced Third Reich (1992)
Afrika Korps (1964, 1965,1977)
Old off Rebirth (1996)
Air Assault one Crete (1978)
Air Baron (1996)
Air Force (1980)
Alexander the Great (1975)
Ambush!
Ameba Wars (1981)
Anzio (1969, 1971,1974,1978)
Arab-Israeli Wars (1977)
Atlantic Storm (1997)
Assassin (1993)
Attack Sub (1991)
Racing Car] (1979)

B

B-17, Queen off the Ski (1983)
Bali (1980)
Baseball Strategy (1973)
Basketball Strategy] (1973)
Battle for Italy (1983)
Battle off the Bulge (1964, 1981, 1991)
Beat Inflation (1975)
Betrayal At House one the Hill (2004)
Bismarck - shipwreck of the Bismarck (1962, 1979)
Black Spy (1981)
Blackbeard (1991)
Blitzkrieg (1965)
Book off Lists (1979)
Bowl Bound (1978) -- college football
Breakout: Normandy (1993)
Bureaucracy (1981)
Business Strategy (1973)

C

Caesar - Jules César with Alésia (1976)
Caesar' S Legions]] (1975)
Carrier]]
Chancellorsville]] (1961, 1974)
Challenge Golf At Pebble Beach (1976)
Circus Maximus (1980)
Civil War]]
Civilization (1982)

Advanced Civilization (1991)

The Collector (1977)
Conquistador (1983)
Cosmic Encounter (2000)
Crescendo off Doom (1980)
Cross-country race off Iron (1979)

D

D-Day (1961, 1965,1971,1977,1991)
Dark Emperor (1985)
Devil' S Den (1985)
Diplomacy (1961, 1977)
Dispatcher (1961)
Down With the King (1981)
Dragon Not (1984)
Dragonhunt (1982)
Dune (1979)

E

Empire off the Rising Sun (1995)
Empires in Arms (1986)
Enemy in Sight (1981)
Executive Decision (1981)

F

Facts in Five (1976)
Feudal (1976)
Firepower (1984)
Flat Signal (1981)
Flight Leader (1986)
Football Strategy (1972)
Foreign Exchange (1979)
France 1940
Freedom in the Galaxy (From SPI)

G

The Range off Dilemmas (1982)
The Range off Inventions (1984)
Range off Slang
Range off Trivia (1981)
Gangsters (1992)
Geronimo (1995)
Gettysburg (1961, 1964,1977,1988,1989)
GI: Anvil off Victory (1982)
Gladiator (1981)
Gold! (1981)
Greed (1986)
Guadalcanal (1966, 1992)
Guns off August (1981)
Gunslinger (1983)

H

Hexagony (1980)
History off the World (1993)
Hitler' S War (2001)
Hundred Days Battle (1983)

I

Icebergs
IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) (1993)
Image (1979)
Intern (1979)

J

Journeys off St Paul (1968)
Jutland (1967, 1974)

K

Kampfgruppe Peiper I (1993)
Kampfgruppe Peiper II (1996)
Kingmaker (1974)
Knights off the Air (1987)
the Kremlin (1988)
Kriegspiel (1970)

L

Mans (1961)
Legend off Robin Hood (1980)
London' S Burning (1996)
The Longest Day (1980)
Luftwaffe (1971)

M

Machiavelli (1980)
Management (1961)
Magic Realm (1978)
Midway (1964, 1991)
Monsters Threatens America (1998)
Moonstar (1981)
Mystic Wood (1980)

NR

Napoleon (1977)
Napoleon At Bay (1983)
Napoleon' S Battles (1989)
Naval War (1983)
New World (1990)
Nieuchess (1961)

O

OD (1985)
Oh Wah Ree (1976)
One To Richmond (1998)
Origins off World War II (1971)
Outdoor Survival (1972)

P

Pacific War (Victory Ranges)
Panzer Armed Afrika (1982)
Panzerblitz (1970)
Panzergruppe Guderian (1984)
Panzerkrieg (1983)
Panzer Leader (1974)
Past Lives (1988)
Patton' S Best (1987)
Paydirt (1979) -- football
Pennant Race (1983) -- baseball
The Peter Principle (1981)
Not off Law (1979)
Powers & Dangers
Pro Golf (1982)

R

Republic off Rome (1990) translated into French Respublica Romana
Rail Baron (1977)
Regatta (1979)
Richthofen' S War - WWI aerial combat (1972)
Rise and Declines off the Third Reich (1976, 1981)

Advanced Third Reich (1992)

Risque (1985)
Road Kill (1993)
Roads to Gettysburg (1994)
RuneQuest (RPG)
The Russian Campaign (1974, 1976)
Russian Face (1985)

S

Samurai (1980)
Shakespeare (1970)
Slapshot (1982) -- hockey
Sleuth (1981)
Source Off The Nile - African exploration (1979)
Speed Circuit (1971, 1977)
Spices off the World (1988)
Squad Leader - WWII tactical combat (1977)

Cross-country race off Iron - expansion kit (1978)
Crescendo off Doom - expansion kit (1979)
GI: Anvil off Victory - expansion kit (1982)
Advanced Squad Leader (1985)

Squander (1965)
Stalingrad (1963, 1974)
Starship Trooper (1976, 1997)
Statis Pro Baseball (1978) -- updated player cards each year until 1992
Statis Pro Basketball (1978) -- updated player cards each year until 1992
Statis Pro Football (1978) -- updated player cards each year until 1992
Stocks and Jumps (1978)
Stock Market (1970)
Stonewall Jackson' S Way (1992)
Stonewall in the Valley (1995)
Stonewall' S Last Battle (1996)
Storm Over Arnhem (1981)
Struggle off Nations (1982)
Submarine (1978)
Successors (1997)
Superstar Baseball (1978)

T

Tactics (1952, 1983)
Tactics II (1958, 1961,1972)
Third Reich - large WWII strategy (1976, 1981)

Advanced Third Reich (1992)

Titan - Fantasy monster combat (1982)
Titan: the Arena - (1997)
Tokyo Express train
Trireme (1980)
Tobruk (1975)
Tuff (1969)
Tuf*Abet (1969)
Turning Not Stalingrad (1989)
TV Wars (1987)
TwixT (1976)

U

U-Boat (1959, 1961)
UFO (1978)
Up Front (1983)
Under Fire (computer range) (1985)

V

Venture (1983)
Verdict II (1961)
Victory in the Pacific - Pacific War (1977)
Vikings

W

War and Peace (1980)
War At Sea - Battle off the Atlantic (1976)
War At Sea II (1980)
Waterloo (1962)
Wizards (1982)
Wizard' S Quest (1979)
Wooden Ships and Iron Men - naval combat 1776 to 1814 (1975)
Word Power (1967)
Wrasslin (1990) -- pro wrestling simulation

Y

Yanks (1987)
Year off the Lord (1968)
Yellowstone (1985)

Plays (Hasbro Avalon Hill)

(Note that some of these plays were published by independent companies and republished later by republished AH. Those marked were also published by AH, before Hasbro repurchases this company.)

With (Hasbro)

Acquire (Re-exit, 1999)
Axis and Combine (Revised Edition; Milton Bradley originally, 2003)
Axis and Combine: D-Day (2004)
Axis and Combine: Europe (1999)
Axis and Combine Miniature (2005)
Axis and Allies: Pacific (2001)

B (Hasbro)

Battle Cry (2000)
Betrayal At House one the Hill (2004)

C (Hasbro)

Cosmic Encounter (Eon Ranges originally, 2000)

D (Hasbro)

Diplomacy (Re-exit, 1999)

G (Hasbro)

The Great Dalmuti (Wizards off the Coast originally, 2005)
Guillotine (Wizards off the Coast originally, 2005)

H (Hasbro)

History off the World (Re-exit, 2001)

M (Hasbro)

Monsters Threatens America! (Re-development off Monsters Devastates America , 2005)

NR (Hasbro)

Nexus Ops (2005)

R (Hasbro)

Risk 2210 A.D. - variable Risk (2001)
Risk Godstorm - variable Risk (2004)
RoboRally (Wizards off the Coast originally, 2005)
Rocketville (2006)

S (Hasbro)

Stratego Legends - variable Stratego (1999)
Star Wars - The Queen' S Gambit (2000)
Sword and Skull (2005)

V (Hasbro)

Vegas Showdown (2005)

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