Avalon Hill

Avalon Hill specialises in board games based on war and strategy. Their hugely popular Axis and Allies series of games is among the most commercially successfully of all WWII based titles, and Risk is perhaps one of the most famous and recognisable strategy board games there is ever likely to be.

Avalon Hill is now a division of the game company Wizards of the Coast, a subsidiary of Hasbro.

Some Avalon Hill Trivia:

• Avalon Hill's first publication was called Tactics. It is widely considered to be the first commercial wargame.
• Avalon Hill pioneered many of the concepts of modern recreational wargaming such as: the hexgrid, zones of control, unit stacking, odds-based combat resolution, terrain effects, troop strength, morale, and board games based upon historical events.

What would we have done without them?!