Avalon Hill Games Inc. is a game company that publishes wargames and strategic board games. It has also published miniature wargaming rules, role-playing games and sports simulations. It is a subsidiary of Hasbro, and operates under the company's "Hasbro Gaming" division.
Home of Charles S. Roberts, founder of the company during the 1950s, located on a hill in the Avalon neighborhood of Catonsville, Maryland. The Avalon Game Company sold mailorder games from the garage for six years 1952–1958. Photo 2020.
Heroes Magazine advertising flyer included in the 1984 RuneQuest Player's Box
A wargame is a strategy game in which two or more players command opposing armed forces in a simulation of an armed conflict. Wargaming may be played for recreation, to train military officers in the art of strategic thinking, or to study the nature of potential conflicts. Many wargames re-create specific historic battles, and can cover either whole wars, or any campaigns, battles, or lower-level engagements within them. Many simulate land combat, but there are wargames for naval and air combat, as well.
A recreational wargame (Here I Stand) in play at CSW Expo 2009
Bolt Action, a miniature wargame set during World War 2
A game of Julius Caesar from Columbia Games shows how a player may only know the strength and unit type of their own forces, creating a fog of war element that does not exist in most tabletop wargames.
The US Navy Electronic Warfare Simulator (1958)