Michael Rinella

Garden (2003); Shifting Sands: The Campaign for North Africa 1940-1943 (2006); Not War But Murder (2007); Desert Duel: First Alamein (2008); and Counter-Attack! Arras (2009). 2010 to 2019: Anzio/Cassino (2010); Four Roads to Moscow: Slaughterhouse (2011); Birth of a Legend: Lee and the Seven Days (2011); Breakthrough: Cambrai (2011); Mercury/Market Garden (2012); El Alamein: Turning Point in the Desert (2013); Operation Battleaxe: Wavell vs. Rommel, 1941 (2013, reprinted 2021); Circle of Fire: The Siege of Cholm, 1942 (2014); Last Battle: Ie Shima, 1945 (2015); Festung Europa: The Campaign for Western Europe, 1943-1945 (2016); Patton's Vanguard: The Battle of Arracourt, 1944 (2017); and Four Roads to Paris: Springtime for Hitler (2017). Last Stand Games published his Stalingrad: Verdun on the Volga in December 2017; his new interpretation of Arras Counter-Attack: The Battle of Arras, 1940 (2019). A second edition of Monty's Gamble: Market Garden (Second Edition) was released in September 2019. 2020 to present: Return to the Rock: Corregidor, 1945 (2020). In January 2022 ATO Magazine published his Lee's Greatest Victory: Chancellorsville 1863. His first solitaire design Stalingrad: Advance to the Volga, 1942 was released in January 2023, quickly sold out its initial print run, and has been reprinted twice, January 2024 and June 2026. A second solitaire title Manila: The Savage Streets, 1945 was released in January 2024, a third Cities of the Damned: Aachen and Cassino was part of ATO Magazine #60 in August 2024, and a fourth, Berlin: Fall of the Reich, 1945 was released in December 2025. Contests that he has won at the World Boardgaming Championships include his victory in Breakout: Normandy in 1999 and Monty's Gamble: Market Garden in 2004. He was also on the 1999 WBC winning team, "Me and Three Stiffs." CSR Awards: his design for ATO Magazine titled Not War But Murder won the 2008 CSR Awards for Best Magazine Wargame and Best Historical Article or Scenario in a Magazine. In addition Monty's Gamble: Market Garden, Shifting Sands: The Campaign for North Africa 1940-1943, Counter-Attack! Arras, Four Roads to Moscow, Birth of a Legend: Lee and the Seven Days, and Breakthrough: Cambrai were all multiple category CSR award finalists while the Slaughterhouse game in Four Roads to Moscow was a finalist for the James F. Dunnigan Award for Design Excellence. In 2024 Manila: The Savage Streets, 1945 was a finalist in the Best Solitaire/Cooperative Category. Other Awards: Stalingrad: Advance to the Volga, 1942 was the Players' Aid top solitaire game of 2023. https://theplayersaid.com/2024/04/11/grants-top-10-solitaire-wargames-of-2023/ In January 2013 he was a BGG "Designer of the Month." As of 2013 his company, Take Aim Designs, LLC, also began publishing in a business partnership with Revolution Games. Interviews: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51xG0qI6OQw (2020); https://www.youtube.com/live/hiUYxHZ6bLI (2023); https://www.youtube.com/live/knEp92TMj_k (2024) Microbadges