Game Designers' Workshop (GDW Games)
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Game Designers' Workshop (GDW Games)

143 games 3 3D models Published 143 games

[Note: not to be confused with the similarly named, UK-based Games Workshop.] Game Designers' Workshop (GDW Games) was a game publisher active 1973 through 1996. Originally established to publish the Europa Series of World War II board war-games, it expanded to other wargames, science-fiction games, and ultimately role-playing games. The company was organized June 22, 1973 by partners Frank Chadwick, Rich Banner,…

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Marc Miller, and Loren Wiseman. Operations continued through February 29, 1996, when it "closed its doors" and its designers moved on to other projects. The designers attributed the company's demise as much to burn-out as to financial difficulties. Many of their games are now published by other publishers. The first titles from GDW were the Europa Series Drang Nach Osten and its sequel Unentschieden. Originally their main effort went into The Europa Series of monster wargames, of which Drang Nach Osten! was merely the first, but they brought out a considerable number over the years. By rough count, GDW published one new product every 22 days for 22 years. Publication of Role-playing Games systems was continued by Far Future Enterprises (Traveller, 2300 AD, Twilight: 2000 and Dark Conspiracy). Weblinks: Wikipedia article Complete published material list The Grenadier magazine issue 1 to 12 were published by GDW. The following issues were put out by J Tibbetts & Son. Also published a News-letter (1992), The Bunker. Series: [edit note: to be continued...] Series: Europa Series: Double Blind (GDW) Series: Assault (GDW) Series: Third World War (GDW/Compass) Microbadge:

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Published 143 games

A House Divided: War Between the States 1861-65 box cover A House Divided: War Between the States 1861-65 · 1981
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Blue Max box cover Blue Max · 1983
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The Third World War: Battle for Germany box cover The Third World War: Battle for Germany · 1984
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Imperium: Empires in Conflict – Worlds in the Balance box cover Imperium: Empires in Conflict – Worlds in the Balance · 1977
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Fire in the East box cover Fire in the East · 1984
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Arctic Front: Battle for Norway box cover Arctic Front: Battle for Norway · 1985
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Air Superiority box cover Air Superiority · 1987
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Southern Front: Race for the Turkish Straits box cover Southern Front: Race for the Turkish Straits · 1984
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Persian Gulf: Battle for the Middle East box cover Persian Gulf: Battle for the Middle East · 1986
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Western Desert box cover Western Desert · 1982
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Triplanetary box cover Triplanetary · 1973
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Battle for Moscow box cover Battle for Moscow · 1986
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Narvik: The Campaign in Norway, 1940 box cover Narvik: The Campaign in Norway, 1940 · 1974
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Road to the Rhine box cover Road to the Rhine · 1979
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1941: Operation Barbarossa box cover 1941: Operation Barbarossa · 1981
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Bloody Kasserine box cover Bloody Kasserine · 1992
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1940 box cover 1940 · 1980
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Torch box cover Torch · 1985
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Citadel: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu box cover Citadel: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu · 1977
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Race For Tunis box cover Race For Tunis · 1992
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Case White: The Invasion of Poland, 1939 box cover Case White: The Invasion of Poland, 1939 · 1977
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Minion Hunter box cover Minion Hunter · 1992
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Red Empire box cover Red Empire · 1990
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1942 box cover 1942 · 1978
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Battle for Basra box cover Battle for Basra · 1991
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Assault: Tactical Combat in Europe – 1985 1983 0
Harpoon (Third Edition) 1987 0
La Bataille de la Moscowa 1975 0
White Death: Velikiye Luki, The Stalingrad of the North 1979 0
Sky Galleons of Mars 1988 0
Fifth Frontier War 1981 0
Boots & Saddles: Air Cavalry in the 80's 1984 0
Asteroid 1980 0
Dark Nebula 1980 0
The Fall of France 1981 0
8th Army: Operation Crusader – The Winter Battles for Tobruk, 1941 1984 0
En Garde! 1975 0
Red Star/White Eagle: The Russo-Polish War, 1920 1979 0
Azhanti High Lightning 1980 0
Overlord 1973 0
Operation Crusader 1978 0
Beda Fomm 1979 0
The Sands of War 1991 0
Striker 1981 0
Snapshot 1979 0
Their Finest Hour 1976 0
Marita-Merkur: The Campaign in the Balkans, 1940-41 1979 0
Bar-Lev: The 1973 Arab-Israeli War 1977 0
Operation Market Garden: Descent Into Hell 1985 0
Campaign Trail: The Game of Presidential Elections 1983 0
Drang Nach Osten! 1973 0
Command Decision 2nd Edition 1992 0
Eylau: Napoleon's Winter Battle, 1807 1980 0
Yalu: The Chinese Counteroffensive in Korea, November 1950 - May 1951 1977 0
Soldier's Companion 1989 0
Volley & Bayonet 1994 0
1815: The Waterloo Campaign 1975 0
Iliad: The Siege of Troy 1978 0
Johnny Reb 1983 0
Command Decision 1986 0
The Normandy Campaign 1983 0
Crimea: The Dawn of Modern Warfare 1975 0
Torgau 1974 0
Mayday 1978 0
Phase Line Smash 1992 0
Harpoon: Captain's Edition 1990 0
The Battle of Lobositz 1978 0
The Battle of Raphia 1977 0
Invasion: Earth 1981 0
Suez '73 1981 0
The Battle of Prague 1980 0
The Battle of the Alma 1978 0
Blood & Thunder: Tactical Combat on the Eastern Front 1941-1945 1993 0
Combined Arms: Command Decision Series Game 1988 0
Team Yankee 1987 0
Ironclads and Ether Flyers 1990 0
Miscellaneous Game Magazine 0
Test of Arms 1988 0
Battlefield: Europe 1990 0
Soldier King 1982 0
Avalanche: The Salerno Landings 1976 0
The Battle of Guilford Courthouse 1978 0
Verdun: A Dagger at the Heart of France 1978 0
Over the Top: WWI Miniatures Wargaming 1990 0
Red Army: The Destruction of Army Group Center 1982 0
The Great Patriotic War: Nazi Germany vs. the Soviet Union 1988 0
Last Battle Twilight: 2000 1989 0
System 7 Napoleonics 1978 0
Burma 1942-45 1976 0
Belter: Mining the Asteroids, 2076 1979 0
Temple of the Beastmen 1989 0
Bloodtree Rebellion: Guerilla Warfare on the Planet Somber 1979 0
The Brotherhood 1972 0
TacForce 1980 0
Star Cruiser 1987 0
Double Star 1979 0
Tet Offensive 1991 0
Chaco: Bolivia vs. Paraguay, 1932-35 1973 0
Attack in the Ardennes: The Battle of the Bulge 1982 0
Battle Rider 1994 0
Coral Sea: Turning the Japanese Advance, 1942 1974 0
Trenchfoot: Bullets & Bayonets in the Great War 1981 0
The Battle of Agincourt 1978 0
Brilliant Lances 1993 0
Pearl Harbor: The War Against Japan, 1941-1945 1977 0
Stand & Die: The Battle of Borodino, 1941 1991 0
Battles of the American Civil War 1995 0
Harpoon Naval Review 1994 1994 0
Striker II 1994 0
Command Decision: Black Powder Cold Steel 1992 0
Minion Nation 1992 0
The Sands of War: Expansion Kit 1992 0
Harpoon: Troubled Waters – Data Sheets and Scenarios for Middle East Operations 1992 0
Harpoon: ASW Forms – Antisubmarine Warfare Data Sheets and Scenarios 1990 0
Harpoon: Data Annex 1990 0
Harpoon: Sub Forms – Submarine Data Sheets 1989 0
The Urals 1989 0
Space 1889 Adversaries 1989 0
Cloudships & Gunboats 1989 0
Chieftain: British Army of the Rhine 1988 0
Barbarossa 25: Command Decision Campaign Module 1988 0
Desert Falcons 1988 0
Harpoon: Ship Forms – Ship Data Sheets and Scenarios 1988 0
To the Sound of the Guns: Scenarios for Johnny Reb 1988 0
Ships of the French Arm 1987 0
Bastogne: Command Decision Campaign Module 1987 0
Air Strike 1987 0
Scorched Earth 1987 0
Harpoon: Battles of the Third World War – Modern Naval Warfare Scenarios 1987 0
Bundeswehr: Nato's Front Line 1986 0
Reinforcements: New U.S. and Soviet Units for Assault 1985 0
Spain and Portugal 1984 0
The Near East 1983 0
Fire & Steel 1978 0
Indian Ocean Adventure: The Japanese Raids on Ceylon, 1942 1978 0
Pharsalus: The Clash of Legions, August 9, 48 B.C 1977 0
Battle for Midway: Decision in the Pacific, 1942 1976 0
SSN: Modern Tactical Submarine Warfare 1975 0
Tsushima 1975 0
Port Arthur 1975 0
Eagles 1974 0
Manassas 1974 0
Unentschieden 1973 0