James M. Day

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James M. Day is an American game designer best known for military based board games, computer games, card games, and miniature rules. He is also an accomplished historian and military weaponry subject matter expert.

His first published title was the board game Panzer, from Yaquinto Publications in 1979. This was followed shortly by the board games 88 and Armor from the same publisher.

From 1990 through 1995, Jim was a game designer and producer for MicroProse Software. During his stint, he was responsible for the games Gunship 2000, Gunship 2000: Islands & Ice, F-15 Strike Eagle III, and Across the Rhine.

During the next several years, Jim continued to contribute to a number of game and historical publications, as well as designed the board games MBT and IDF for the Avalon Hill Company and wrote the user manual for Jane's F/A-18.

In recent times Jim has returned to his original interest in miniatures designing the Panzer Miniatures Rules for StrikeNet Games. His newest effort, the card game The Kaiser’s Pirates was released in 2007 for StrikeNet Games -- included in Games Magazine's top 100 for 2008 . The Kaiser's Pirates was re-published by GMT Games in 2009. It was nominated for a Charles S. Roberts award in 2010.

He is currently at work on new versions of the boardgames Panzer, MBT and IDF, and an ACW tactical naval game Iron & Oak for GMT Games.

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