List of wargame publishers
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List of wargame publishers is an index of commercial companies that publish wargames.
- 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 the late 1990s.
- Battlefront Miniatures Ltd. – publisher of Flames of War (FoW), a WWII wargame.
- Battleline Publications – founded in 1973 and bought by Heritage Models around 1980. They were the original publisher 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
- Columbia Games (originally Gamma Two Games) – the biggest producer of "block games", using wooden blocks instead of cardboard counters.
- Computer Strategies – founded in 1990. They are the producer of the widest range of computer moderated wargames rules for tabletop miniatures.
- Conflict Games – 1970's company founded by designer John Hill.
- 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
- Dwarfstar Games – Published a line of small SF&F games around 1980.
- E-Mail Games – provides free wargaming and computerized referee/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.
- The Gamers
- Game Designers' Workshop – Published many popular wargames and role-playing games such as Traveller and Drang Nach Osten!, disbanded 1996.
- Game Research/Design – produced expansions for Europa and eventually took on the series.
- 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 2003
- Grenier Games
- Guidon Games – Original publisher of Chainmail.
- 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.
- Johnny Reb Gaming Society, publishes the free quarterly newsletter CHARGE! (magazine) with an annual paid membership dues. Also publishes wargaming scenarios books, such as Crossed Sabers, for its members.
- L2 Design Group
- Lost Battalion Games – Games include the man-to-man scale Sergeants!, several card-based wargames.
- Majestic Twelve Games – Publisher of several games, including Starmada, Iron Stars, & Grand Fleets.
- 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.
- Mayfair Games – Original publisher of many "train" games, 18xx series, & Empire Builder.
- Metagaming Originator of the microgame format, original publisher of Ogre.
- 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.
- Operational Studies Group – Focuses primarily on the Napoleonic Era.
- Paradox Entertainment – Creator of such games as the medieval wargames Europa Universalis I and II, WWII game Hearts of Iron, and Roman-era game Legion.
- Privateer Press – Publishers of WARMACHINE as well as the Iron Kingdoms d20 RPG setting.
- Quarterdeck Games
- Renaissance Ink - Owned by Jay Wirth. Published Fantasy Gladiators and Armistice, manufactures wargame bases and other modeling items.
- Shrapnel Games, Inc. – A company owned by Timothy W. Brooks that primarily publishes war and strategy games.
- Simmons Games – contemporary publisher of two (so far) Napoleonic wargames that look very much like the battlefield maps published at the time; also, the games do not use dice.
- Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI) – another early—and very prolific—wargame publisher, SPI published the magazines Strategy & Tactics and Moves.
- Stealthy Spider Publishing – Publishers of the Occult Wars horror/fantasy skirmish miniatures game.
- Steve Jackson Games – Early successes were Ogre, Car Wars, and Illuminati. Also published many titles in the microgame format: tiny plastic boxes costing very little money (US$4-6).
- StrikeNet Games publisher of Panzer Miniatures Rules.
- Task Force Games – founded in 1979 by Steven V. Cole and Allen Eldrige, went out of business in the mid-'90s. Produced many games, most notably Star Fleet Battles and Starfire.
- Too Fat Lardies – Publishers of Algernon Pulls it Off, Bag the Hun, I Ain't Been Shot, Mum!, If the Lord Spares Us, Kiss Me Hardy, Le Feu Sacré, Triumph of the Will, and Troops, Weapons & Tactics.
- Tower Games – Provide pay for play wargames for multiple players on-line. Titles include Line of Muskets and Lightning War
- Wargames Research Group – Publisher of the popular De Bellis Antiquitatis (DBA), De Bellis Multitudinis (DBM) and De Bellis Renationis (DBR) rule sets for the ancient, medieval and renaissance periods.
- Warhammer Historical Wargames (a division of Games Workshop) – Produce Warhammer Ancient Battles (WAB), Warhammer English Civil War and Legends of the Old West.
- Warhorse Simulations – Publisher of Empire and Automated Card Tracking System (ACTS).
- Yaquinto Publications
