List of wargame publishers
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- 3W or World Wide Wargames – publishers of the wargaming magazine The Wargamer.
- A and A Game Engineering – concentrating on air and naval rules
- ACIES Edizioni - publishers of wargames like Lepanto and others.
- Agema.org.uk – publishers of the Game of War 18th century/Napoleonic rules, Salvo WW2 naval, and Challenge & Reply WW1 naval, among others.
- Amarillo Design Bureau Inc. (ADB) – publisher of Star Fleet Battles (SFB), along with the related strategic game Federation & Empire.
- Australian Design Group (ADG) – publishers of World in Flames.
- Avalanche Press – publishers of the Great War at Sea and Panzer Grenadier series, among others.
- Avalon Hill – the first publisher of board wargames, Avalon Hill (AH) made many classic games, such as Squad Leader, Third Reich, and PanzerBlitz, bought out by Hasbro in 1998.
- Battlefront Miniatures Ltd. – publisher of Flames of War (FoW), a World War II wargame.
- Battlefront.com - publisher of Combat Mission series of games
- Battleline Publications – founded in 1973 and bought by Heritage Models around 1980. They were the original publisher of several Avalon Hill games, such as Wooden Ships and Iron Men, and Circus Maximus.
- Black Skull Games – founded 2007. Publisher of Universal War.
- Clash of Arms
- Collins Epic Wargames – publisher of the Frontline General series of board/mini wargames.
- Columbia Games (originally Gamma Two Games) – the biggest producer of "block games", using wooden blocks instead of cardboard counters.
- Compass Games – founded 2004. Publisher of Paper Wars.
- Computer Strategies – founded in 1990. They are the producer of the widest range of computer moderated wargames rules for tabletop miniatures.
- Conflict Games – 1970s company founded by designer John Hill.
- Corvus Belli – publishes Infinity, a wargame in which sci-fi themed miniatures are used to simulate futuristic skirmishes.
- Critical Hit – publishes tactical-level wargames, notably games in the Advanced Tobruk System as well as ASL-compatible modules and scenario packs.
- Crocodile Games – publishers of Wargods of Ægyptus and Wargods of Olympus.
- Decision Games – current license holder of most of the old SPI titles. Current publisher of Strategy & Tactics, Modern War and World at War magazines.
- Dwarfstar Games – published a line of small SF&F games around 1980.
- AI, via e-mail
- Excelsior Entertainment - current (as of 2005) publisher/manufacturer of Chronopia and Warzone.
- FASA – original publisher of the boardgame/miniatures game BattleTech. Now closed.
- Firefly Games - publisher of science fiction tabletop fighting games including Monster Island and CyborGladiators.
- Flashpoint Miniatures – publishers of Flashpoint Vietnam.
- Flying Pig Games – founded by Mark Walker in 2014
- Fresno Design Group
- The Gamers - publisher of Tunisia
- Traveller; disbanded in 1996.
- Game Research/Design – produced expansions for Europa and eventually took on the series.
- Games Research Inc – published Diplomacy in 1961 and 1971.
- Games Workshop – publishers of a number of fantasy and science fiction wargames and role-playing games.
- GMT Games – probably the most prolific of the wargame companies in the 1990s and into 2018.
- Graviteam Software - publisher of Graviteam tactics
- Grenier Games
- Guidon Games – original publisher of Chainmail.
- Harebrained Schemes – publisher of Golem Arcana.
- Historical Military Services – took over GRD in 2004
- JagdPanther – original company of Steve V. Cole and Allen Eldridge.
- Jedko Games – 1970s Australian company of John Edwards, which initially published some Avalon Hill games such as The Russian Campaign and War at Sea.
- John Tiller Software
- Johnny Reb Gaming Society - publishes the free quarterly newsletter Charge! newsletter / fanzine with an annual paid membership dues. Also publishes wargaming scenarios books, such as Crossed Sabers, for its members.
- Knight Models – publishes Batman Miniature Game, a skirmish game based on the adventures of the iconic Dark Knight, and Harry Potter Miniatures Adventure Game, a board game with miniatures featuring the famous wizarding saga.
- L2 Design Group
- Legion Wargames - publisher of several games including Toulon, 1793, Maori Wars and many more.
- Lock N' Load Publishing – publisher of Lock 'n Loadseries, and A World at War series.
- Lost Battalion Games – games include the man-to-man scale Sergeants! and several card-based wargames.
- Majestic Twelve Games – publisher of several games including Starmada, Iron Stars, and Grand Fleets.
- Mantic Games – publisher of several games including Deadzone, Kings of War, and Mars Attacks.
- Marek/Janci Design - publishers of full-color miniature wargaming scenario books, including the Enduring Valor: Gettysburg in Miniature series and Undying Courage: Antietam in Miniature.
- Matrix Games –
- Mayfair Games – original publisher of many "train" games, 18xx series, and Empire Builder.
- Megalith Games – Publishers of Godslayer
- microgame format; original publisher of Ogre.
- Mongoose Publishing – publishers of RPGs, historical SF and fantasy rules.
- Multi-Man Publishing – republishes Avalon Hill's Advanced Squad Leader (ASL)
- New England Simulations – a New Hampshire-based group that has created three games based on previously designed systems, with an emphasis on both graphics and design.
- Napoleonic Era.
- Paradox Interactive – creator of such computer grand-strategy games as the medieval wargames Crusader Kings and Crusader Kings II, and the post-medieval wargames Europa Universalis, Europa Universalis II, Europa Universalis III and Europa Universalis IV, and the Iron-Age series of wargames Victoria: An Empire Under the Sun, and Victoria II, and the WW2 series of wargames Hearts of Iron, and Roman-era game Legion.
- People's War Games – publishers of the WW2 Russian Front monster wargame Korsun Pocket and some others WW1 and WW2 wargames.
- RPGsetting.
- Quarterdeck International - publishers of wargames since 1979, founded and operated by Jack Greene.
- Radioactive Press – publisher of the Toy Battle System series of games, which includes Atomic Super Humans, Giant Monster Rampage, and Mega Bots.
- Renaissance Ink – owned by Jay Wirth. Published Fantasy Gladiators and Armistice, manufactures wargame bases and other modeling items.
- Revolution Games
- River Horse Games – run by Alessio Cavatore. Publishes wargames and provides game design services for wargames companies.
- Scarab Miniatures - publisher of War and Conquest.
- Shrapnel Games, Inc. – owned by Timothy W. Brooks, primarily publishes war and strategy games.
- Simmons Games – contemporary publisher of two (so far) diceless Napoleonic wargames that look very much like the battlefield maps published at the time.
- Simulations Canada
- Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI) – another early and very prolific wargame publisher, SPI published the magazines Strategy & Tactics and Moves.
- Slitherine Software - publisher of several wargame titles, including Panzer Corps
- Specialist Military Publishing - publisher of Cold War Commanderand Future War Commander..
- Stealthy Spider Publishing – publishers of the Occult Warshorror/fantasy skirmish miniatures game.
- microgameformat: tiny low-priced plastic boxes (US$4–6).
- StrikeNet Games - publisher of Panzer Miniatures Rules.
- Starfire.
- Tiny Battle Publishing
- Too Fat Lardies – publishers of Chain of Command, Sharp Practice, Infamy, Infamy!, Dux Britanniarum, What a Tanker, Algernon Pulls it Off, Bag the Hun, Kriegsspielin both its 1824 and 1862 versions, They Couldn't Hit An Elephant, Sharp Practice and Troops, Weapons & Tactics.
- Lightning War
- Wargames Factory
- De Bellis Renationis(DBR) rule sets for the ancient, medieval and Renaissance periods.
- Warhammer Historical Wargames (a division of Games Workshop) – produces Warhammer Ancient Battles (WAB), Warhammer English Civil War, Legends of the Old West and Warmaster Ancients.
- Warhorse Simulations – publisher of Empire and Automated Card Tracking System (ACTS).
- WBS games – wargame and boardgame publisher
- Wessex Games – historical and sci fi / fantasy rules including Air War C21, Strange Tydes, and Iron Cow.
- West End Games
- Wyrd Miniatures - publisher of Malifaux.
- XTR Corp - former publisher of Command magazine, a military history and strategy magazine that contained insert wargames.
- Yaquinto Publications
- Zvezda - publisher of Art of Tactic.
- Z&M Publishing Enterprises – publisher of Angriff!.
See also
Academy Games: www.AcademyGames.com
Publisher of Conflict of Heroes, Birth of America – 1775 Rebellion.