Dean Essig
Dean Norman Essig (March 13, 1961 - March 24, 2024) was a wargame designer from Illinois. He was also the founder of the wargame company The Gamers Dean Essig passed away on March 24, 2024, at age 63. The Gamers released games in several different series: NBS - The Napoleonic Brigade Series simulates brigade level battles during the Napoleonic Wars. CWB - The Civil War Brigade series covers battles at…
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the brigade level during the American Civil War. RSS - The Regimental Sub-Series simulates battles at the regimental level during the American Civil War. LoB - The Line of Battle Series also depicts battles at the regimental level during the American Civil War with newer rules than the RSS. TCS - The Tactical Combat Series simulates 20th century platoon level battles. SCS - The Standard Combat Series is a general system which is easy (yet still challenging) and allows simulation of a wide range of battles. OCS - The Operational Combat Series simulates WWII and Korean war campaigns at levels ranging from battalions to divisions. BCS - The Battalion Combat Series covers 20th Century battles (WWII & Yom Kippur war) at the battalion level. Abridged List of Notable Games 2001 Guderian's Blitzkrieg II 2004 DAK2: The Campaign in North Africa, 1940-1942 2007 Case Blue 2014 Last Chance for Victory: The Battle of Gettysburg 2016 Last Blitzkrieg: Wacht am Rhein, The Battle of the Bulge Awards Inducted into the Charles S. Roberts, Clausewitz Award Hall of Fame 1993. Winner of the James F. Dunnigan award for outstanding achievement in playability and design: 1993 (Afrika), 1994 (Enemy at the Gates), 1997 (DAK), 2007 (Case Blue and the Operational Combat Series in general). Has won the Charles S. Roberts Award several times: CSR "Best world war II boardgame" 1993 (Afrika), 1994 (Enemy at the Gates), 1995 (Tunisia), 1997 (DAK), 2000 Sicily (tied with Mark Simonitch's Ukraine '43), 2007 (Case Blue) CSR "Best wargame graphics" 1989 (Hitler's last gamble), 1995 (Yom Kippur), 1996 (GD'41), 1997 (DAK) Interview: https://www.idlethumbs.net/3ma/episodes/dean-essig
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Designed and illustrated 50 games
| Iron Curtain: Central Europe, 1945-1989 | 2020 | 0 | |
| Drive on Paris | 2000 | 0 | |
| April's Harvest: The Battle of Shiloh, April 6 & 7, 1862 | 1995 | 0 | |
| Guderian's Blitzkrieg: The Drive on Moscow | 1992 | 0 | |
| Circus Minimus | 2000 | 0 | |
| Guadalajara | 2006 | 0 | |
| Operation Michael | 2002 | 0 | |
| GD '41 | 1996 | 0 | |
| Rock of the Marne | 2008 | 0 | |
| Omaha: The Bloody Beach | 1991 | 0 | |
| North Africa: Afrika Korps vs Desert Rats, 1940-42 | 2021 | 0 | |
| Austerlitz | 1993 | 0 | |
| Danger Forward: The Battle of Gela, July 1943 | 2026 | 0 | |
| Embrace an Angry Wind: The Battles of Spring Hill & Franklin, 29-30 November 1864 | 1992 | 0 | |
| Strike Them a Blow: 1864 North Anna River | 2006 | 0 | |
| Bloody Ridge | 2005 | 0 | |
| In their Quiet fields | 1988 | 0 |
Designed 42 games
Art for 11 games
| The Third Winter: The Battle for the Ukraine September 1943-April 1944 | 2021 | 0 | |
| Valley of Tears: The Yom Kippur War, 1973 | 2023 | 0 | |
| South Mountain | 2008 | 0 | |
| Miscellaneous Game Magazine | 0 |