The Gamers
The Gamers was a designer and publisher of board wargames that, over the course of 20 years, won over a dozen Charles S. Roberts Awards.
History
The Gamers was founded in 1988 by game designer and artist Dean Essig in Homer, Illinois. Instead of designing a new game system for each game, Essig decided that The Gamers would produce a number of games, but categorized into different series. The games in each series would use a common set of rules. Each game within the series would also have a subset of rules to deal with situations unique to that battle.The company's games received good critical reception, and won a total of 14 Charles S. Roberts Awards.
The Gamers was bought by Multi-Man Publishing in 2001. Multi-Man continued to use the services of Essig as game designer until his death in 2024. Multi-Man publishes new materials for the original Gamers series as well as new games and new game series.
Series
The Gamers produced games in seven different series:- Civil War Brigade : American Civil War battles at the brigade level.
- Regimental Sub-System Series / Line of Battle : American Civil War battles at the regimental level.
- Tactical Combat Series : 20th-century platoon level battles.
- Operational Combat Series : 20th-century battles at battalion and division levels.
- Standard Combat Series : General system that allows simulation of a wide range of battles.
- Napoleonic Brigade Series : Brigade-level battles during the Napoleonic Wars.
- Battalion Combat Series : 20th-century battles at the battalion level.
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