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Columbia Games is one of the oldest manufacturers of board wargames, and has also produced the Hârn role-playing game as well as various card games and collectible card games. Their wargames are notable for using small wooden or plastic blocks instead of the more conventional cardboard counters. The company, originally titled Gamma Two Games ...
The first such block wargame was Quebec 1759, depicting the campaign surrounding the Battle of the Plains of Abraham. Gamma Two Games later produced the block wargames War of 1812, simulating the war of that name, and Napoleon, simulating the campaign leading up to the Battle of Waterloo. In 1982, Gamma Two changed its name to Columbia Games.
Quebec 1759. (block wargame) Quebec 1759 is a board wargame published in 1972 by Gamma Two Games (now Columbia Games) that simulates the Battle of the Plains of Abraham outside the walls of Quebec in 1759. The game uses wooden blocks set on their edge rather than the more traditional cardboard counters, unique for a wargame in 1972.
Napoleon. (board game) Box cover of original Gamma Two edition, 1974. Napoleon, subtitled "The Waterloo Campaign, 1815", is a strategic -level block wargame published by Gamma Two Games in 1974 that simulates the Battle of Waterloo. A number of versions of the game have been produced by Avalon Hill and Columbia Games .
The block wargame Richard III from Columbia Games. This subgenre was created in the early 1970s, when Gamma Two Games produced the three initial games of this type. It has long been the province of Gamma Two and its successor, Columbia Games, but recently other companies have been putting out games of the same type.
EastFront is a two-player wargame that uses wooden blocks instead of the traditional die-cut cardboard counters used in other wargames. Because the wooden blocks can be set on their edge with identifying information facing away from the opposing player, opponents have limited knowledge about the forces that they are about to engage.
Description. Julius Caesar is a card driven block wargame based on the Roman Civil War. Players take control of the legions of Julius Caesar or Pompey and fight to determine the future of Rome. Marc Antony, Cleopatra, Octavian, and Brutus also play key roles in the game.
A block wargame, Richard III by Columbia Games, showing the fog of war in play: the red player can see the identity of his own pieces, but not those of the white player. Abstract and military board games sometimes try to capture the effect of the fog of war by hiding the identity of playing pieces, by keeping them face down or turned away from ...