John Poniske
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John Poniske

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John Daniel Poniske (born April 1955, in Springfield, Illinois) is a game designer and teacher who currently resides in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, midway between the Civil War battlefields of Gettysburg and Antietam. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1973 to 1977. Poniske is an English and Social Studies teacher in an alternative middle school in Hagerstown, Maryland. He has a passion for history, travel and…

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most creative pursuits outside of music as he states that, "He couldn't learn an instrument if his life depended on it." He regularly attends the World Board gaming Championships in Lancaster, PA. Contests that he has won at the World Boardgaming Championships include his victory in Afrika Korps in 1991 and We the People in 2004. John Daniel Poniske is the father of designer John Davis Poniske. Together they designed Devil Dogs: Belleau Wood 1918.

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Designed 26 games

Hearts and Minds: Vietnam 1965-1975 (Third Edition) box cover Hearts and Minds: Vietnam 1965-1975 (Third Edition) · 2019
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Leaping Lemmings box cover Leaping Lemmings · 2010
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Hearts and Minds: Vietnam 1965-1975 box cover Hearts and Minds: Vietnam 1965-1975 · 2010
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Plains Indian Wars box cover Plains Indian Wars · 2022
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Lincoln's War box cover Lincoln's War · 2013
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Revolution Road box cover Revolution Road · 2017
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Belmont: Grant's Baptism of Command, November 7th, 1861 box cover Belmont: Grant's Baptism of Command, November 7th, 1861 · 2017
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Ball's Bluff box cover Ball's Bluff · 2015
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Fire on the Mountain: Battle of South Mountain September 14, 1862 box cover Fire on the Mountain: Battle of South Mountain September 14, 1862 · 2022
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La Vendée 1793: Counter-revolution in the West box cover La Vendée 1793: Counter-revolution in the West · 2021
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King Philip's War 2010 0
Bleeding Kansas 2019 0
Maori Wars: The New Zealand Land Wars, 1845-1872 2018 0
Blood on the Ohio: Washington's Indian War 1789-1794 2018 0
Banana Wars: US Intervention in the Caribbean 1897-1933 2020 0
Amigos and Insurrectos: The Philippine Insurrection 1899-1902 2016 0
Devil Dogs: Belleau Wood 1918 2019 0
Pontiac's War: Frontier Rebellion, 1763-66 2025 0
Flanks of Gettysburg: Little Round Top, Culp's Hill – July 1863 2024 0
Wolfe Tone Rebellion: Irish Rebellion of 1798 2023 0
Fall of Siam 2020 0
LZ Albany: Ia Drang Valley 17-18 November 1965 2016 0
Hugs 2012 0
Black Eagles: A Game of the Great Slave Rebellions of Santo Domingo (Haiti) 1790-1804 0
Azincourt 0
Berlin Airlift 0