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Announcements in this category:

New Game: Empires at War 1805
New Game: Politics Britain Sim
Battle of Salamanca for Napoleonic Battles
New Game: Conflict WW2
New Game: Premier empire
New Game: Roman Legion
Jun 12, 2014
Jun 12, 2014
Jun 06, 2014
May 11, 2014
Apr 20, 2014
Apr 20, 2014

Games in this category:

1776 (wargame)
1900 Alternative (wargame)
1914-alt (Alternate history wargame)
1939 World Wide Battle Plan (Wargame)
19th Century - War between the States (Historical MMORPG / Historical MMOSTG)
A Study In Escalation (Free Form Strategy)
Aeterna Roma (historical, political)
Aevum Obscurum (strategy, historical, empires in 1300 Europe, risk like)
Age of Conquest (Ancient era strategy wargame)
Age of Intrigue (PBP alternate history)
Alternate 1939 (nation sim, historical, war game)
American Civil War Western Theater (wargame)
Ancient Battles (wargame)
Anubis Scripts (Play by Post)
Any Given Sunday (NFL Football sim)
Austerlitz (historical (Napoleonic) wargame)
Austerlitz - Der Aufstieg des Adlers (historical wargame)
AustGov (Political Simulation)
Axis & Allies (another) (WWII war game)
Axis and Allies (WWII wargame)
Barbarians at the Gate (Historical Wargame)
Baroque Historical RPG (Historical Roleplaying Game)
Battle Plan (Wargame - conquer Europe)
Beat to Quarters (Age of Sail)
Before the Mast (historical, Age of Sail, pirate, swashbuckling adventures)
Blood Royale PBEM (political boardgame)
Britannia (Historical boardgame)
British Government Sim (uk political simulation)
British Politics Sim (free political simulation)
Bronze Fist 2: In Search of the Gods (Ancient Hellenic Strategy Game)
Call of Cthulhu (Horror)
Call of Cthulhu - 1920s Britian (Horror)
Capitol Hill (US Political Simulation)
Civil War OnLine (U.S. Civil War Wargame)
Code Name: Desert Hunt (Writing intensive futuristic RPG with two opposing sides.)
Cold War: Control Destiny (Diplomacy based wargame)
Commander - Europe at War (Strategic WW2 turn based strategy in the vein of Panzer General. )
Company Commander (Modern Wargame)
Conflict WW2 (wargame)
Conquest (government-simulation game)
Continental Rails 2 (economic, historical, rails)
Courage Calls Us! (Historical)
Court of the Rose (historical, tudors era, movieverse, slash rpg)
Dark Age (Historical Wargame)
Dark corners of the mind (1920's Call of Cthulhu Horror)
Dead Men Tell No Tales (fantasy, pirates, Royal Navy, Caribbean)
Dies the Fire - Ashes of California - Mature (Post Apocalypse, Medieval, Fantasy)
Diplomacy (email version of Hasbro's pure strategy game)
Diplomacy Ludomaniac (strategy diplomacy)
Domination (strategy)
eddzo judge (war game)
Empires (Historical Wargame)
Empires at War 1805 (Historical Wargame)
Empires of the Middle Sea (ancient war game, pbem, strategy, diplomacy, empire building)
End of Empires (alternate history world war 2 game)
Engle Matrix Games (mystery, horror, spy, wargame)
EuroSim (EU Parliament sim)
Exodus of Rome (Historical Fantasy RPG)
Fall of Rome (historical web-based computer moderated wargame)
Fallen Empires (Strategy wargaming)
Fallen RPG (Browser Based RPG, Mythical)
Feudal Lords (Medieval strategy)
Feudal Lords (other) (Medieval turn-based PBM game)
Feudallords (Medieval wargame with lots of diplomacy)
Fields of Glory (Imperial Gaming) (17th Century Grand Srategy)
For King and Country (political simulation)
For King and Country (other) (Medieval Role Playing Game)
Ghoulies Ghosties and Beasties (Adult Fantasy)
Global Combat (Strategic wargame)
Global Diplomacy (strategic, economic/military, 19th century setting)
Golden Age of Sail (Historic, Naval, Sail)
Gone West 1870 (Western)
Grand Strategy (Strategy)
Great War PBEM yahoogroups (strategy PBEM)
Harrison County Government Sim Game (Government, Sim, Online)
HM Government Simulation (Political Simulation, role playing, westminster, uk)
HMS Apollo (18th Century Naval RPG)
Hoplite Encounter (Wargame set in Classical Greece)
Howell's Intrigue (Political Strategy)
Immortal Stand (PBEM, SCi Fi, Wargame, Horror)
Imperium (canadian) (strategic, economic/military, 19th century setting)
Infamous Days (WWII strategic wargame)
Inter Maria (classical grand strategy)
JASTA (WW1 air combat wargame)
Jedi Knights of the British Empire (Star Wars - Steampunk)
King Arthur's Court (Tudor Era, Historical Forum RPG)
King of Kings: Albion II (Arthurian Britain scenario wargame)
Les Petites Betes Soyeuses (En Garde! (swashbuckling RPG))
London Times (Victorian London historical rpg)
Lords of the Earth - Campaign 24 (Historical/Strategic)
mailgames24 (fantasy tactics game BattleOrcs and board games)
Medieval Warlords (Historical strategic wargame)
Militarizm:Generals (wargame, Russian language only )
Miller Systems WW2 Campaign (Global Strategy)
Morne Plaine (Napoleonian wargame)
Napoleonic Battles (wargame)
Napoleonic Empires (Historical strategy wargame)
Naruto PBEM (RolePlaying)
NetNations (Modern, Political Simulator)
New 1000 AD (Strategy)
New Cold War (Diplomatic, military role playing game)
PalatiumIII (Free, Diplomacy, Strategic, Wargame)
Passion and Prosperity (historical, regency period)
PBeM-Spiele - die Welt der E-Mail-Spiele (Web-Portal)
Pelagoria (strategy, political, exploration, wargame,)
Pendragon Campaign (Legend of Excalibur times)
Political Supremacy (Alternate History starting in 1980 in the mist of conflict. This is a turn based political strategy game where you run a appointed nation. )
Politics America (political simulation)
Politics Britain Sim (political simulation)
Politics Canada (Politics simulation.)
Politics Saskatchewan (simulation/role playing)
Politics Sim UK (uk politics, govenment)
Politics UK (British politics simulation roleplay)
Politics USSR (Political government simulation)
Power:UK Retro (British Political Simulation)
Premier empire (napoleonic wargame)
Pride and Glory (17th Century Role Playing Game)
Raising Cottonville, A Western (Historical RPG/Wargame)
Reach for an Empire (grand strategy)
Remnants of an Empire (Forum Roleplay)
Renaissance (historical simulation, open-ended, in its 30th year)
Renaissiance Dynasty (historical )
Ritterkreuz (semi-historical wargame, tactical, soldier life)
Roman Imperium (Roman political game)
Roman Legion (Historical RPG)
Romantic Fantasies (adult cross-genre freeform RP)
Rondak's Portal (over 300 games of various types)
RPG Forums Online (Free form fantasy and message board based RPGs)
RPG Freak (PBP RPG)
RPG Gathering (open-game multi-genre board)
Sauromatia 600 B.C. (3.5 ed. D&D )
Scramble for Empire (Victorian imperialist colohial wargame campaign! )
Sengoku (Strategic Warfare in Feudal Japan)
Shogunate (Historical strategy wargame)
Sniper Free For All (wargame)
Sphere of Influence (historical strategy)
SPQR - Senatus Populusque Romanus (Roman Republic simulation)
Stars and Stripes (us political simulation)
Statecraft RPG (RPG nation sim)
Struggle For Power 1937 (Political/Economic/Military game)
Struggle of Humanity (Historical Nation Building/Wargame)
Struggle of Nations (Historical wargame)
Swashbuckler (historical roleplaying)
SYMMACHIA (diplomatic pbm in the hellenistic world (229 BC))
Tales of Tamar (fantasy wargame)
Tauria 600 B.C.E. (3.5 ed. D&D in a Historical Setting with Fantasy, Myth, Legend, and Folklore)
The Carlyle Expedition (Call of Cthulhu 6th Edition)
The Dawn OF time (BB Rpg)
The First Men (ASOIAF, Total War, Stratagy, PBEM)
The Glory of Kings (La Gloire du Roi) (18th century historical power wargame)
The Glory of Rome (Political, Wargame, Historical Fiction/Fantasy)
The Great Civil War of Samaca (Open-ended wargame/diplomacy)
The Long Goodbye PBEM (1930's era role playing)
The Lords of Terre the Sword of Destiny (Fantasy wargame)
The Poseidon Initiative (Fantasy/Modernish)
The UK Your Way (Political simulation)
The Wild West (Historical PbEM rpg set in old west)
TheTrojanDress (pirate, pirates of the caribbean, adult)
Timeless Fantasy Hockey League (Sports, Hockey Simulation, Retro)
Travian (Browser, war, tribes, village, rule, conquer)
Tribe Net - Islandia (Build and Wargame strategy simulation)
Tribe Net TN2 (build strategy wargame)
Tribes! It's 50,000 BC - Do you know where your kids are? (Tribal Social Game)
TribeVibes (Strategy - "diplomatic wargame" - historical)
UK Army Sim (Forum Based Military RPG)
Ultimate Diplomacy (Diplomacy Variant set in the Middle Ages)
Use the Spark (steampunk intrigue)
Use the Spark! (steampunk PbEM, alternate world)
Vampire: Dark Ages (freeform historical horror pbem)
War & Peace III (historical, wargame, strategy, turn-based)
War to Glory (Historical Wargame)
Wars of the Roses (historical wargame, power game)
What Lies Beyond (fantasy, horror)
World at War (Canada) (Wargame (WWII style))
World at War (Team Game) (wargame (wwii style))
World Conquest (wargame)
World Leaders: The World Is Yours (Modern, Political, War, Role Play, Alternate History)
World War II Simulation (realistic WWII wargame)
WORLD WAR TWO COMMANDERS (wargame)
WW2 - The Big One (FREE World War Two in detail)
WW2 The Big One (wargame)
WWII Naval (PBeM, open-ended, historical, free )
You Play It (Board Games)
Your Dynasty (Historical RPG)

Ac1ds0ld13r (Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 Homebrew Setting) [ dead link ]
Age of Rifles (pc wargame, XIXth century) [ dead link ]
Archipel (corsair wargame) [ dead link ]
Auruma (political simulation) [ dead link ]
Austerlitz - The Rise of the Eagle (Historical Simulation) [ dead link ]
Axis&Allies/ WaW/ Europe/ Pacific (New free Axis&Allies PBEM platform available) [ dead link ]
B-17 Queen of the Skies (War Game) [ dead link ]
Dino Wars (Prehistoric Conquest) [ dead link ]
Diplomacy DE (strategic board game) [ dead link ]
Divine right Kingdom of the realm (Risk style turn based strategy game pbem) [ dead link ]
EL CONQUISTADOR (historical roleplaying game) [ dead link ]
Empires of 1914 (Abstract, historical, roleplaying nation sim.) [ dead link ]
EnGarde! Death with Honour (Standard EnGarde!) [ dead link ]
Hypereconomic Diplomacy (world simulation/war game) [ dead link ]
Ich Dien (historical play-by-post) [ dead link ]
Mind Blast (Fantasy RPG) [ dead link ]
Nim International (nation, simulator, simulation, wargame, cold war) [ dead link ]
Online Blind Sniper (Man to Man Double Blind Wargame) [ dead link ]
Online Turnbased Wargame (OTWG) (Online wargame, multi settings, fully customisable) [ dead link ]
Origins of World War II (AH) (Political/Strategic) [ dead link ]
Orleans En Garde PBEM game (En Garde. Role Play in 17th century France.) [ dead link ]
Panzer General 2 (War game, WW2 simulation, PBEM club, ) [ dead link ]
Per Annum: The Circle of Time (fantasy, medieval, science fiction, modern) [ dead link ]
POLITICS IRELAND (Politics, Historical, Roleplaying) [ dead link ]
Politics Ireland (Politics, roleplaying, historical) [ dead link ]
Pools of Imagination (Adult, freeform rpg and message board) [ dead link ]
Purebloods Only (Harry Potter/Marauder Era) [ dead link ]
Qpawn Ireland (Politics, Government, Sim, Politician, Forum. Election, bills) [ dead link ]
Res Publica 133BC (historical political simulation) [ dead link ]
Right on Track (alaska, wolf, sled dog, human) [ dead link ]
Rise and Fall (Strategic Roman Empire v. Barbarians) [ dead link ]
Roma (Historical) [ dead link ]
Royal Kingdoms (medieval strategy game) [ dead link ]
RPG Center (any) [ dead link ]
Salroth Ages (Semi-Freeform fantasy timetravel) [ dead link ]
Shogunate: Warlords of the Rising Sun (Strategic Wargame) [ dead link ]
Spartacus (arena fights in the roman empire) [ dead link ]
Spartacus Ultima (gladiator game, web-based, multilingual) [ dead link ]
The Gilded Cage (historical, post-Civil War, Victorian, open-ended) [ dead link ]
The Roman Republic (alternate history, Rome, RPG) [ dead link ]
The Walls of China (pbe-mail board game) [ dead link ]
Threshold: The Descent (Room X) (Horror) [ dead link ]
Western World (Wild West tabletop style rpg game) [ dead link ]
WWII What If (wargame) [ dead link ]

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