Achtung Spitfire!

Avalon Hill is a game company that specializes in wargames and strategic board games. Its logo contains its initials "AH", and is often referred to by this abbreviation. It has also published the occasional miniature wargaming rules, role-playing game, and had a popular line of sports simulations.... It is now a division of the game company Wizards of the Coast, which is itself a subsidiary of Hasbro. The company was started in 1954 by Charles S. Roberts under the name of "The Avalon Game Company" for the publication of his game Tactics, considered the first commercial wargame. Following the success of Tactics Roberts changed the name "The Avalon Game Company" to "Avalon Hill" in 1958, name kept by the company until it folded in 1998. The first game published by the company under the name of "Avalon Hill" was the second edition of Tactics, titled Tactics II and also published in 1958. Between 1958 and 1963 Avalon Hill published many different games, many of them being wargames: 1776, Starship Troopers, Africa Korps, Wooden Ships and Iron Men, Richtovens War, Battle of the Bulge, Gettysburg, Tactics II, U-Boat, Chancellorsville, D-Day, Civil War, Waterloo, Bismarck and Stalingrad.
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