We Are Coming, Nineveh nominated for Charles S. Roberts Awards

We Are Coming, Nineveh! (Nuts! Publishing)has been nominated for a Charles S. Roberts Award for Excellence in Conflict Simulation, in several categories: Best Modern Game, Best Tactical Game, and Game of the Year. In addition—and I’m especially excited about this—Harrison Brewer and Juliette Le Ménahèze have been nominated for a Chad Jensen Memorial Breakthrough Designer Award.

Nineveh was first designed by Julliette and Harrison for my conflict simulation course. Neither had designed a wargame before. I don’t think Juliette had ever played one before either, but she was writing her Honours thesis on Iraqi security force operations against Daesh. Harrison had played some wargames and was interested in urban warfare. While Brian Train and I later came on board later to help them develop a solo module and refine the project for eventual publishing, the game design is very much theirs: the movement and combat systems, the capability and event card system, and the victory metrics.

The winner of each Charles Adams Award is decided by public ballot, which is now open at  https://forms.gle/SCPjWvDp7abnc9Ty5. Voting closes at midnight (ET) on May 13. There are lots of great games to vote for in many categories.