The Gamers

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This is an article about a wargaming company. For the 2006 film, see Gamers: The Movie. For the 2002 film, see The Gamers (film).

The Gamers was a wargaming company founded and run by Dean Essig in Homer, Illinois. Their distinction was the focus on a few series, with special rules for each individual game. This made it easier to play new games within a series that was well known to the players. Homercon, a convention for The Gamers games is held each September in Homer, IL. This company was bought out by Multi-Man Publishing in 2001 who continues to publish new materials for the original Gamers series and plans to release new ones designed by Dean Essig.

[edit] Games

The Gamers produce games in several different series:

  • CWB - The Civil War Brigade series simulates battles at the brigade level during the American Civil War.
  • RSS - The Regimental Sub-System series simulates battles at the regimental level during the American Civil War.
  • TCS - The Tactical Combat series simulates 20th century platoon level battles.
  • OCS - The Operational Combat series simulates 20th century battles at levels ranging from battalions to divisions.
  • SCS - The Standard Combat series is a general system which is easy (yet still challenging) and allows simulation of a wide range of battles.
  • NBS - The Napoleonic Brigade series simulates brigade level battles during the Napoleonic Wars.
  • The Modern TCS series has been discontinued.


Game Subject Year Designer Category Notes
In Their Quiet Fields Antietam 1988 Dean Essig CWB 1
In Their Quiet Fields II Antietam 1995 Dean Essig CWB 1a
Thunder at the Crossroads Gettysburg 1988 Dave Powell CWB 2
Thunder at the Crossroads II Gettysburg 1992 Dave Powell CWB 2a
August Fury 2nd Battle of Bull Run 1990 Dave Powell CWB 3
Barren Victory Chickamauga 1991 Dave Powell CWB 4
Bloody Roads South The Wilderness 1992 James Epperson CWB 5
Perryville Perryville 1992 Dave Powell CWB 6
Embrace an Angry Wind Spring Hill & Franklin 1992 Dean Essig CWB 7
No Better Place to Die Murfreesboro 1994 Dave Powell CWB 8 CSR award nominee
April's Harvest Shiloh 1995 Al Wambold CWB 9 CSR award nominee
Champion Hill Champion Hill 1996 Ken Jacobsen CWB 10 CSR award nominee
Gaines Mill Seven Days Battle I 1997 Dave Powell CWB 11 CSR award nominee
Seven Pines Seven Pines & Seven Days Battle II 1998 Dean Essig CWB 12
Malvern Hill Seven Days Battle III 1999 Dean Essig CWB 13 CSR award nominee
Three Battles of Manassas 1st & 2nd Bull Run, & a 3rd Bull Run? 2004 Thomas Prowell CWB 14 CSR award nominee
This Hallowed Ground Gettysburg 1998 Dave Powell RSS 1 CSR award nominee
This Terrible Sound Chickamauga 2000 Dave Powell RSS 2 CSR award nominee
A Fearful Slaughter Shiloh 2004 Dave Powell RSS 3 CSR award nominee
Bloody 110th Battle of the Bulge 1989 Dean Essig TCS 1 CSR award nominee
Objective: Schmidt Hürtgen Forest, Ardennes Campaign 1990 Dave Powell TCS 2 CSR award nominee
Omaha Omaha 1991 Dave Powell TCS 3
Matanikau Matanikau River 1993 Sam Simons TCS 4
GD '40 Stonne, Battle of France 1993 Dean Essig TCS 5 CSR award nominee
Hunters From the Sky Maleme Airfield, Battle of Crete 1994 Wig Graves TCS 6 CSR award nominee
Black Wednesday Krasny Bor 1995 Dave Friedrichs TCS 7 CSR award nominee
Leros Leros 1996 Dave Friedrichs TCS 8
GD '41 Tula Road 1996 Wig Graves TCS 9 CSR award WINNER
Semper Fi! Korean War 1997 Lee Forester TCS 10 CSR award WINNER
Raging Storm Anzio, Allied invasion of Italy 1997 Nigel Roberts & Bob Runnicles TCS 11
A Frozen Hell Tolvajärvi, Winter War 2000 Al Wambold TCS 12 CSR award nominee
Screaming Eagles in Holland Veghel, Operation Market Garden 2002 Nigel Roberts & Bob Runnicles TCS 13
Bloody Ridge Guadalcanal, Bloody Ridge 2005 Michael Smith TCS 14
Force Eagle's War (Hypothetical NATO-Warsaw Pact conflict) 1990 Dean Essig Modern TCS
Guderian's Blitzkrieg Operation Barbarossa 1992 Dean Essig OCS 1 CSR award nominee
Enemy at the Gates Stalingrad 1994 Dean Essig OCS 2 CSR award WINNER
Tunisia Tunisia 1995 Dean Essig OCS 3 CSR award WINNER
Hube's Pocket Western Ukraine 1996 Dave Friedrichs OCS 4 CSR award nominee
DAK Western Desert Campaign 1997 Dean Essig OCS 5 CSR award WINNER
Burma Burma Campaign 1999 Dave Friedrichs OCS 6 CSR award WINNER
Sicily Sicily 2000 Dean Essig OCS 7 CSR award WINNER
Guderian's Blitzkrieg II Operation Barbarossa 2001 Dean Essig OCS 8 CSR award nominee
Korea: The Forgotten War Korean War 2003 Rod Miller OCS 9 CSR award nominee
Case Blue Operation Barbarossa & Stalingrad 2007 Dean Essig OCS 10
Stalingrad Pocket Stalingrad 1992 Masahiro Yamazaki SCS 1 CSR award WINNER
Stalingrad Pocket II Stalingrad 1996 Dean Essig SCS 1
Afrika Western Desert Campaign 1993 Dean Essig SCS 2 CSR award WINNER
Afrika II Western Desert Campaign 2006 Dean Essig SCS 12 CSR award nominee
Ardennes Battle of the Bulge 1994 Dean Essig SCS 3 CSR award nominee
Yom Kippur Yom Kippur War 1995 Al Sandrick SCS 4 CSR award WINNER
Crusader Operation Crusader 1997 Dean Essig SCS 5 CSR award nominee
Gazala Gazala 1999 Dean Essig SCS 6 CSR award nominee
Drive on Paris Western Front 1914 2000 Al Wambold SCS 7 CSR award WINNER
Fallschirmjäger Airborne assault against Holland 1940 2001 Al Wambold SCS 8 CSR award nominee
Operation Michael Operation Michael 2002 John Best SCS 9
The Mighty Endeavor Operation Overlord to V-E Day 2005 Steve Newhouse & Tim Armstrong SCS 10 CSR award nominee
Guadalajara The Battle of Guadalajara in 1936 2006 Ernesto Sassot SCS 11
Austerlitz Austerlitz 1993 Dave Powell NBS 1 CSR award nominee
Marengo Marengo 1995 Dave Powell NBS 2 CSR award nominee
Aspern-Essling Aspern-Essling 1999 Jerry Malone NBS 3
Espinosa Espinosa 2002 Anders Fager NBS freebie
Montebello Montebello 2006 François Vander Meulen NBS freebie
Talavera Talavera & Vimeiro 2007 Jerry Malone & Anders Fager NBS 4
Circus Minimus Chariot racing 2000 Dean Essig -

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