Frank Chadwick
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Frank Chadwick

126 games 2 3D models Designed 125 games Art for 5 games

Frank Chadwick is a game designer who co-founded the company Game Designers' Workshop (GDW Games) in 1973. He is the co-author of the Volley & Bayonet rules system and has contributed to other miniature rule systems such as the Command Decision series. Chadwick has also done consulting work in the defense industry. He has said that, "All historical-based games are role-playing games." He has more than 60…

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published games to his credit. Abridged List of Notable Games Wargames 1973 Drang Nach Osten! (Series: Europa) 1975 1815: The Waterloo Campaign 1977 Imperium: Empires in Conflict – Worlds in the Balance 1981 A House Divided: War Between the States 1861-65 1984 The Third World War: Battle for Germany (Series: Third World War (GDW/Compass)) RPG Games 1975 En Garde! 1977 Traveller (Classic) 1984 Twilight: 2000 1988 Space: 1889 (Original edition) Awards Winner of the 1984 Charles S. Roberts Hall of Fame Award at Origins '85. In 1984, he was inducted into the Origins Hall of Fame. Microbadge: [microbadge=22463 inline]

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Designed and illustrated 4 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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3 more without a cover yet
Volley & Bayonet 1994 0
The Rough Riders: A Volley, Bayonet, & Glory Supplement, volume 2 1999 0
Battles of the American Civil War 1995 0

Designed 121 games

The Third World War: Battle for Germany box cover The Third World War: Battle for Germany · 1984
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Fire in the East box cover Fire in the East · 1984
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Battle for Moscow: Operation Typhoon, 1941 box cover Battle for Moscow: Operation Typhoon, 1941 · 2009
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Arctic Front: Battle for Norway box cover Arctic Front: Battle for Norway · 1985
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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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Thunder in the East box cover Thunder in the East · 2018
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The Third World War: Designer Signature Edition box cover The Third World War: Designer Signature Edition · 2022
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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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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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Objective: Kiev (The Advance of Army Group South: June-August, 1941) box cover Objective: Kiev (The Advance of Army Group South: June-August, 1941) · 2010
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Road to the Rhine box cover Road to the Rhine · 1979
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Bloody Kasserine box cover Bloody Kasserine · 1992
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Leuthen: Frederick's Greatest Victory 5 December, 1757 box cover Leuthen: Frederick's Greatest Victory 5 December, 1757 · 2012
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1940 box cover 1940 · 1980
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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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Red Empire box cover Red Empire · 1990
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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
White Death: Velikiye Luki, The Stalingrad of the North 1979 0
Beda Fomm 2010 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
8th Army: Operation Crusader – The Winter Battles for Tobruk, 1941 1984 0
En Garde! 1975 0
Azhanti High Lightning 1980 0
Operation Crusader 1978 0
Beda Fomm 1979 0
The Sands of War 1991 0
Striker 1981 0
The Arduous Beginning: The Attack of Army Group Center June - August 1941 2009 0
Their Finest Hour 1976 0
Bar-Lev: The 1973 Arab-Israeli War 1977 0
Operation Market Garden: Descent Into Hell 1985 0
Drang Nach Osten! 1973 0
Command Decision 2nd Edition 1992 0
Command Decision: Test of Battle 2006 0
Eylau: Napoleon's Winter Battle, 1807 1980 0
Soldier's Companion 1989 0
Days of Battle: Golan Heights 2013 0
1815: The Waterloo Campaign 1975 0
Command Decision 1986 0
Crimea: The Dawn of Modern Warfare 1975 0
Torgau 1974 0
Phase Line Smash 1992 0
The Fall of Tobruk 1975 0
The Battle of Lobositz 1978 0
Command Decision III 1998 0
Invasion: Earth 1981 0
Suez '73 1981 0
Target: Leningrad – The Advance of Army Group North: June-August, 1941 2010 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
Test of Arms 1988 0
Battlefield: Europe 1990 0
Soldier King 1982 0
Avalanche: The Salerno Landings 1976 0
Red Army: The Destruction of Army Group Center 1982 0
The Great Patriotic War: Nazi Germany vs. the Soviet Union 1988 0
Belter: Mining the Asteroids, 2076 1979 0
Temple of the Beastmen 1989 0
The Brotherhood 1972 0
TacForce 1980 0
Star Cruiser 1987 0
Tet Offensive 1991 0
Attack in the Ardennes: The Battle of the Bulge 1982 0
Battle Rider 1994 0
Trenchfoot: Bullets & Bayonets in the Great War 1981 0
Brilliant Lances 1993 0
Stand & Die: The Battle of Borodino, 1941 1991 0
White Death: Velikiye Luki, the Stalingrad of the North 2026 0
WWII Campaigns: 1940, 1941, and 1942 2024 0
Command Decision: Test of Battle – Armies of October: Armies & Weapons 1973 Arab-Israeli War 2017 0
Battle for Moscow II 2016 0
Men Under Fire 2012 0
Battle for Moscow Expansion Kit 2011 0
Command Decision: Test of Battle – Blitzkrieg Legions: Fall of the West 2011 0
Condottiere: The Dogs of War 2011 0
Objective: Odessa 2011 0
Battles of the Seven Years War: Volume 2 – The Strategic Flanks 2011 0
Blitzkrieg Legions: Dark Beginnings 2011 0
Battles of the Seven Years War: Austria versus Prussia 2010 0
Command Decision: Test of Battle – Red Tide 2009 0
Tide of Iron: Designer Series Vol. 1 2008 0
Command Decision: Test of Battle – Honour of the Regiment: The British and Commonwealth Armies in the West in World War II, 1939-1945 2008 0
Command Decision: Test of Battle – Red Steel: Soviet Armored and Mobile Forces in World War II 1939-1945 2008 0
Volley & Bayonet: Road to Glory 2008 0
Command Decision: Test of Battle – Benghazi Handicap 2007 0
Command Decision: Test of Battle – Stars and Stripes Forever 2007 0
Traveller: The Classic Games, Games 1-6+ 2004 0
Ancient Conquest 2002 0
Jacobite 1: History, Background Colour & Three Scenarios for Miniatures – A Volley, Bayonet & Glory Supplement 1999 0
Jacobite 2: Campaigns, Scenarios, & Information for Miniatures – A Volley, Bayonet & Glory Supplement 1999 0
Striker II 1994 0
Command Decision: Black Powder Cold Steel 1992 0
The Sands of War: Expansion Kit 1992 0
Cloudships & Gunboats 1989 0
Barbarossa 25: Command Decision Campaign Module 1988 0
Chieftain: British Army of the Rhine 1988 0
Bastogne: Command Decision Campaign Module 1987 0
Ships of the French Arm 1987 0
Scorched Earth 1987 0
Bundeswehr: Nato's Front Line 1986 0
Reinforcements: New U.S. and Soviet Units for Assault 1985 0
Unentschieden 1973 0
Napoleon Returns: A Scenario Book for Volley & Bayonet Covering the Exciting Waterloo Campaign 0
Operation Crusader: The Winter Battles for Tobruk, 1941 – Designer Signature Edition 0
Dwarf Wars: Saga Ironfist – Battles of the First Invasion 0
A House Divided: Designer Edition 0
Austria Stands Alone: The 1809 Campaign – Volley and Bayonet Scenario Book 0
Hellfire Pass 0
Dwarf Wars 0

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The Rough Riders: A Volley, Bayonet, & Glory Supplement, volume 1 1999 0