• Guidon Games produced board games and rulebooks for wargaming with miniatures, and in doing so influenced Tactical Studies Rules (later TSR, Inc.), the...
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  • Chainmail (game) (category Guidon Games games)
    member Jeff Perren, a hobby-shop owner with whom he had become friendly. Guidon Games released the first edition of Chainmail in 1971. In 1967, Henry Bodenstedt...
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  • Guidon may refer to: Guidon, a type of heraldic flag Guidon, a military flag – see Colours, standards and guidons Guidon (United States), a military standard...
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    Arneson took the game to Gygax as the representative for game publisher Guidon Games, and the pair co-developed a set of rules that became Dungeons & Dragons...
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    showcase their respective games to Gygax, in his role as a representative of Guidon Games. Gygax saw potential in both games, and was especially excited...
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  • Miniatures" books from Guidon Games that began in 1971 with Chainmail.: 6  In 1972, Wham got a job with Don Lowry at Guidon Games, in the shipping/layout...
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    all players on a regular basis. Usage in a wargaming context includes Guidon Games 1973 ruleset, Ironclad. In a role-playing game context, it was first...
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    miniatures rules entitled Chainmail, published by a tiny company called Guidon Games, headquartered in Belfast, Maine included a fantasy supplement detailing...
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  • Don't Give Up the Ship (game) (category Guidon Games games)
    conducting Napoleonic era naval wargames. The game was published by Guidon Games in 1972 and republished by TSR, Inc. in 1975. The game was developed...
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  • role-playing games Guidon Games – board games and wargames Hero Time – board games, cardgames and toys Habermaaß GmbH – board games Hans im Glück – board games Harebrained...
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  • Avalon Hill has published games as an independent developer and publisher, through its subsidiary Victory Games, its video game divisions, and later as...
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    Society (1970) published later by Guidon Games (1972), Tractics by Guidon Games (1971) later by TSR, Inc. (1975), War Games Rules Armour & Infantry 1925-1950...
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    organizations, the practice of carrying colours, standards, flags, or guidons, both to act as a rallying point for troops and to mark the location of...
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    Jeff (1972). Chainmail: Rules for Medieval Miniatures (PDF) (2nd ed.). Guidon Games. pp. 25–32. [W]e are including a brief set of rules which will allow...
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  • Fight in the Skies (category Guidon Games games)
    first self-published by creator Mike Carr in 1966, then published by Guidon Games in 1972 and TSR in 1975. The game simulates World War I style air combat...
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    List of miniature wargames (category Lists of games)
    Rules (Battlestandard Miniatures and Games, 2004) Chainmail (Guidon Games, 1971) Clash of Empires (Great Escape Games, 2011) Crusader (Crusader Miniatures...
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    Wargame (redirect from Consim games)
    the first in a long line of Napoleonic miniature wargames. Chainmail (Guidon Games, 1971) – An extension and distillation of rules previously published...
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  • Dunkirk: The Battle of France (category Guidon Games games)
    simulating Operation Dynamo. It was designed by Gary Gygax and published by Guidon Games in 1971. In a 2004 interview Gygax remarked: One of the most satisfying...
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    2018. Graviteam Software - publisher of Graviteam tactics Grenier Games Guidon Games – original publisher of Chainmail. Harebrained Schemes – publisher...
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  • Tractics (category Guidon Games games)
    Leon Tucker with contributions by Gary Gygax, the game was published by Guidon Games in 1971 and republished by TSR, Inc. in 1975. It came as a boxed set...
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    24-, and 100-sided die. Zocchi contributed to the series of books by Guidon Games that began in 1971 with Chainmail.: 6  Zocchi produced the superhero...
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    List of board wargames (category Lists of games)
    historical genre (and some subgenres) showing their publication history. All games can be presumed to have been published in English unless another language...
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  • via the IFW newsletter. In 1971 he started a publishing imprint called Guidon Games which produced rulebooks for miniature wargaming and board wargames,...
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  • 2011 action film Ironclad (game), a 1973 miniatures wargaming series by Guidon Games Ironclad (video game), a video game for the Neo Geo CD console Ironclad...
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  • December 1972 to pitch their respective games to Gygax, who at that time was a representative of the Guidon Games company. Gygax was immediately intrigued...
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  • Grosstaktik (category Guidon Games games)
    released by Guidon Games as part of the Wargaming in Miniatures series. Unlike other booklets in the series, it does not have the Guidon Games imprint on...
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  • Atlanta (board game) (category Guidon Games games)
    War Campaign Game is an American Civil War board wargame published by Guidon Games in 1973. Atlanta Civil War Campaign Game is a two-player or two-team...
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    Fast Rules (category Guidon Games games)
    in 1970 by the Armored Operations Society, an affiliate of the IFW. Guidon Games made a second printing in 1972 and a third printing at an unknown later...
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  • about 50 pages. That year Don Lowry, owner of Guidon Games, acquired the magazine. Lowry stopped including games in the magazine, preferring to sell them separately...
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    and plotting required. Fight in the Skies (also known as Dawn Patrol) (Guidon Games) 1971 Richthofen's War (Avalon Hill) 1972 Flying Circus (SPI) 1972 Foxbat...
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