Tactics (game)
Tactics II (1958)
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| Other name(s) | Tactics II |
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| Manufacturer(s) |
Monarch Services J.E. Smith & Co. |
| Designer(s) | Charles S. Roberts |
| Publisher(s) | Avalon Hill Games |
| Publication date | 1954 II: 1958 |
| Years active | 1954-1958 II: 1958-1972, 1973-1998 |
| Genre(s) | war |
| Language(s) | en |
| Players | 2 |
| Age range | 12 and up |
| Playing time | 120 minutes |
Tactics is generally credited as being the first commercially successful board wargame.
It was designed by Charles S. Roberts in 1953, and self-published in 1954 under the company name of The Avalon Game Company (later changed to Avalon Hill in 1958).Tactics II, a revised version published by Avalon Hill in 1958, then re-released again in 1961 and 1973. In 1972, the game was discontinued due to rising costs, but was redesigned in 1973 with less costly components and used as a as it was an introductory wargame. In 1983 Avalon Hill released a "25th anniversary" edition of the original Tactics, which did (for the first time) include the second map.
Tactics pioneered many game mechanics which became standard in the board wargame industry, including the odds-ratio combat results table and variable movement costs for entering squares (later hexes) containing different types of terrain. It also evolved the use of cardboard counters which had been previously introduced with the game War Tactics or Can Great Britain Be Invaded?. Unlike later board wargames which used a hexagonal grid superimposed on the game map, Tactics used a square grid.
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