Charles S. Roberts

Charles Swann Roberts (February 3, 1930 – August 20, 2010,[2][3][4] Baltimore, Maryland[5]) was a wargame designer, railroad historian, and businessman.

In 1952, Charles S. Roberts began working on the first mass market board wargame, Tactics, from his house in the Avalon neighborhood of Catonsville, Maryland.

[8][9] Tactics II improved on the basic game design of his earlier effort, and formed the genesis for the concept of the combat results table.

Hard hit by a recession, Roberts turned over Avalon Hill to one of his creditors, Eric Dott of Monarch Services,[8] in December 1963.

[16] In Triumph IX, Roberts includes reminiscences about his life and movingly pays tribute to his late first wife, Patricia.

Home of Charles S. Roberts during the 1950s located on a hill in the Avalon neighborhood of Catonsville, Maryland . The Avalon Hill Game Company sold mailorder games from the garage for six years 1952-1958. [ 1 ]