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Rodger B. MacGowan


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Rodger B. MacGowan (RBM) is President of RBM Design Studio (founded 1973), Vice President and Art Director of GMT Games LLC (founded 1990), and the Founder, Editor-in-Chief and Art Director of C3i Magazine (An RBM Publication, founded 1992) which won the "Best Professional Magazine" CSR Award in 2009.

Rodger B. MacGowan has worked on over 250 wargames and designed various game magazines in his career and has won numerous game industry and hobby awards (see list below).

RBM started playing wargames in high school in the early 1960s while living in Oceanside, California. His first amateur magazine was entitled Arquebus (founded 1974). In 1976, RBM founded Fire & Movement: The Forum of Conflict Simulation, an "Independent" and professional magazine devoted to reviewing games from a variety of wargame companies of the time. When first founded by RBM "Fire & Movement" was an "Independent" review publication – no connection with any wargame company. "F&M" has won six "Charles S. Roberts Awards" for Best Professional Magazine, and "F&M" was inducted into the "Origins/GAMA Hall of Fame" in 1999. "F&M" is currently published by Decision Games. For more background on F&M follow this link: Wikipedia article.

In 1976 The Avalon Hill Game Company approached RBM to design their wargame packaging. Rodger's first package design for AH was "The Russian Campaign" (1976), followed by "Squad Leader" (1977), "Cross of Iron" (1978), and "Flattop" (1979), etc. RBM would design the packaging for most of Avalon Hill's wargames over a ten year period resulting in over 24 package designs, along with cover art and interior art for AH's "The General" Magazine.

Along with Avalon Hill, RBM also created packaging designs for Game Designers' Workshop, Simulations Canada, Operational Studies Group, Peoples Wargames, Yaquinto Games, Quarterdeck Games, Hobby Japan, 3W Game Company, Australian Design Group, etc.

In 1986, RBM founded the "Charles S. Roberts Awards" (reorganized the CSR awards under the direction of Charles S. Roberts). In this same year, what was up until then known as the "Charles Roberts Awards" (the original awards were the brain child of Canadian wargamer John Mansfield who published the amateur 'zine "Signal" ) were renamed "The Origins Awards" under the sponsorship of the Academy of Adventure Gaming. The "Charles S. Roberts Awards" remain, as they have always been, not connected with any company or organization. They are completely "independent awards" nominated and voted for by wargaming hobbyists.

RBM Studio (Rodger B. MacGowan) is publisher of "C3i Magazine" – including the games, modules, variants and special publications related to "C3i Magazine".

In 2004, Rodger B. MacGowan was awarded the "Blomgren-Hamilton Lifetime Achievement Award" at Consimworld Expo in Arizona. In 2006, RBM was awarded the "Academy of Adventure Gaming Hall of Fame Award".

(RBM Artwork List)

Listing of Graphic Art Design Work by:
Rodger B. MacGowan

1976-2008

LEGEND:

(ctr) = Counterart Design by RBM
(map) = Map art by RBM or Art Director of
(card) = Card art by RBM
(pkg) = Packaging art by RBM
(AD) = Art Director

= Award Winning Game art & graphics by RBM




The Avalon Hill Game Company, Baltimore, MD, USA

1- *Advanced Squad Leader (AH) 1985 (pkg)
2- Anzio (AH) 1977 (pkg)
3- Battle of the Bulge (AH) 1981 (pkg)
4- Civilization (AH) (pkg)
5- * Crescendo of Doom (AH) 1980 (pkg)
6- *Cross of Iron (AH) 1978 (pkg)
7- Flattop (AH/BL) 1979 (pkg)
8- Fortress Europa (AH/Jedko) (pkg)
9- Frederick the Great (AH/SPI) (pkg)
10- Fury in the West (AH/BL) 1979 (pkg)
11- G.I.: Anvil of Victory (AH) 1982 (pkg)
12- Guns of August (AH) 1981 (pkg)
13- The Longest Day (AH) 1980 (pkg)
14- Midway Campaign (AH) computer 1980 (pkg)
15- PanzerArmee Afrika (AH/SPI) (pkg)
16- PanzerGruppe Guderian (AH/SPI) (pkg)
17- PanzerKrieg (AH/OSG) 1983 (pkg)
18- *The Russian Campaign (AH/Jedko) 1976 (pkg)
19- Sinai Front (AH) (Unpublished) (pkg)
20- *Squad Leader (AH) 1977 (pkg)
21- *Storm Over Arnhem (AH) 1981 (pkg)
22- Struggle of Nations (AH) 1982 (pkg)
23- TAC (AH) computer 1983 (pkg)
24- *Up Front (AH) 1983 (pkg, card)

GMT Games LLC, Hanford, CA, USA

1- A World At War (AD, pkg)
2- Across the Rappahannock (AD, ctr, pkg)
3- Africanus (GMT) 1994 (AD, ctr, pkg)
4- *AirBridge to Victory (GMT) 1990 (AD, ctr, map, pkg)
5- Alesia (ctr, pkg) 2004
6- *Ardennes '44 (AD, pkg)
7- *Arctic Storm (AD, ctr, pkg) 1992
8- Asia Engulfed (pkg) 2007
9- Austerlitz 1805 (AD, ctr, pkg)
10- Barbarossa: Army Group North (AD, ctr, pkg)
11- *Barbarossa: Army Group South (GMT) 1996 (AD, ctr, pkg)
12- Barbarossa: Army Group Center (GMT) 1998 (AD, ctr, pkg)
13- Barbarossa: Kiev to Rostov (2008)
14- * Battle for North Africa (GMT) 1996 (AD, pkg)
15- Battle Line (AD, card, pkg)
16- *Battles of Waterloo (GMT) 1994 (AD, ctr, pkg)
17- Blackbeard (pkg) 2008
18- Blue vs. Gray Deluxe Edition (AD, pkg)
19- Borodino 1812 (ctr, pkg) 2004
20-*Brandywine (AD, ctr, pkg)
21-*Britain Stands Alone (GMT) 1994 (AD, ctr, pkg)
22- Burning Blue (pkg) 2005
23- Caesar in Alexandria (AD, ctr, pkg)
24- Caesar: Conquest of Gaul (GMT) 1998 (AD, ctr, pkg)
25- Carthage (ctr, pkg) 2005
26- Cataphract and Justinian (AD, ctr, pkg)
27- Clash of Giants (AD, pkg)
28- Clash of Giants II (pkg) 2006
29- Clash of Monarchs (pkg) 2008
30- Commands & Colors Ancients (ctr, cards, pkg) 2005
31- Commands & Colors Ancients Exp Nr1 (ctr, pkg) 2006
32- Commands & Colors Ancients Civil War (ctr, pkg) 2007
33- Commands & Colors Ancients The Barbarians (ctr, pkg) 2007
34- Combat Commander Europe (cards, pkg) 2006
35- Combat Commander Mediterranean (cards, pkg) 2007
36- Combat Commander Paratroopers (pkg) 2007
37- Combat Commander Pacific (cards, pkg) 2008
38- Combat Commander Staingrad (pkg) 2008
39- Conquerors Alexander the Great (ctr, pkg) 2006
40- Consul for Rome (GMT) 1992 (AD, ctr, pkg)
41- Conquest of Paradise (pkg) 2007
42- Corsairs & Hellcats (AD, ctr, card, pkg)
43- * Crisis: Korea 1995 (GMT) 1991 (AD, ctr, pkg)
44- Crisis: Sinai 1973 (GMT) 1995 (AD, pkg)
45- Devil's Horsemen (ctr, pkg) 2004
46- Diadochoi (GMT) 1995 (AD, ctr, pkg)
47- Dictator (GMT) 1995 (AD, ctr, pkg)
48- Down in Flames Squadron Pack (ctr, card, pkg) 2006
49- Downtown (Pkg) 2004
50- 8th Air Force (GMT) 1994 (AD, ctr, card, pkg)
51- 1863 (GMT) 1991 (AD, pkg)
52- Empire of the Sun (pkg) 2005
53- Flying Colors (pkg) 2005
54- Formula Motor Racing (AD, card, pkg)
55- *For the People (AD, ctr, pkg)
56- Galaxy: The Dark Ages (AD, pkg)
57- * Glory (GMT) 1995 (AD, ctr, pkg)
58- Glory III (ctr, pkg) 2007
59- Grand Illusion (pkg) 2004
60- Great Battles of Alexander (GMT) 1991 (AD, ctr, pkg)
61- Great Battles of Alexander - Deluxe Ed. (GMT) 1995 (AD, ctr, pkg)
62- Great War in Europe Deluxe (pkg) 2007
63- Gringo! (ctr, pkg) 2003
64- Great Battles of Julius Caesar (GMT) 1994 (AD, ctr, pkg)
65- Guilford (AD, ctr, pkg)
66- Gustav Adolf the Great (pkg) 2006
67- *Here I Stand (ctr, pkg) 2005
68- *Hornet Leader (GMT) 1991 (AD, ctr, card, map, pkg)
69- Invasion: Norway (GMT) 1995 (AD, pkg)
70- *Invasion: Sicily 1943 (GMT) 1998 (AD, pkg)
71- Ivanhoe: The Age of Chivalry (AD, pkg)
72- Juggernaut (GMT) 1991 (AD, ctr, pkg)
73- Jugurtha (GMT) 1998 (AD, ctr, pkg)
74- June 6 D-Day, 1944 (AD, pkg)
75- Kasserine (AD, pkg)
76- Kutuzov (pkg) 2008
77- *Lion of the North (GMT) 1993 (AD, ctr, pkg)
78- Lost Victory (GMT) 1994 (AD, pkg)
79- Mamluk (ctr, pkg) 2005
80- Manifest Destiny (pkg) 2004
81- Manoeuvre (pkg) 2008
82- Medieval (AD, pkg)
83- Men of Iron (ctr, pkg) 2005
84- Monmouth (ctr, pkg) 2007
85- *Napoleonic Wars, The (AD, pkg)
86- *1914 Twilight in the East (pkg) 2007
87- Onward Christian Soldiers (ctr, pkg) 2006
88- Operation Mercury (GMT) (AD, pkg)
89- *Operation Shoestring (GMT) 1990 (AD, ctr, map, pkg)
90- *Paths of Glory (AD, pkg)
91- Pax Romana (ctr, pkg) 2006
92- Phalanx (GMT) 1998 (AD, ctr, pkg)
93- Prussia's Glory (AD, pkg)
94- Prussia's Glory II (pkg) 2006
95- Pursuit of Glory (pkg) 2008
96- Pyrrhic Victory (GMT) 1993 (AD, ctr, pkg)
97- RAN (ctr, pkg) 2007
98- Reds! (AD, pkg)
99- Rise of the Luftwaffe (GMT) (AD, ctr, card, pkg)
100- Rise of the Roman Republic (AD, ctr, pkg)
101- Risorgimento 1859 (AD, pkg)
102- Red Badge of Courage (AD, ctr, pkg)
103- *River of Death (AD, ctr, pkg)
104- Roads to Leningrad (pkg) 2004
105- ROME (AD, card, ctr, pkg)
106- *Samurai (GMT) 1996 (AD, ctr, pkg)
107- Santa Fe Rails (AD, pkg)
108- *Saratoga: The Turning Point 1777 (1998) (AD, ctr, pkg)
109- Savannah (ctr, pkg) 2005
110- Successors (ctr, pkg) 2008
111- Sweden Fights On (AD, pkg)
112- *Silver Bayonet (GMT) (AD, map, pkg)
113- SimpleGBoH Battle Manual (ctr, pkg, pub) 2006
114- *SPQR (GMT) 1992 (AD, ctr, pkg)
115- SPQR Deluxe Edition (AD, ctr, pkg) 2008
116- SPQR Player's Guide (GMT) 1998 (AD, ctr, pkg, editor)
117- *Sword of Rome (ctr, pkg) 2004
118- The Bulge (pkg) 2008
119- *Three Days of Gettysburg (GMT) 1995 (AD, ctr, pkg)
120- Thirty Years War (AD, pkg)
121- *This Accursed Civil War (AD, pkg)
122- Tigers in the Mist (AD, pkg)
123- *Thunderbolt + Apache Leader (GMT) 1991 (AD, map, ctr, card, pkg)
124- Triumph & Glory (AD, ctr, pkg)
125- *Twilight Struggle (pkg) 2005
126- *Typhoon! (GMT) 1995 (AD, ctr, pkg)
127- *Ukraine '43 (AD, pkg)
128- Under the Lily Banners (pkg) 2005
129- *Victory in the West (GMT) 1993 (AD, ctr, pkg)
130- Von Manstein's Backhand Blow (AD, pkg)
131- *War Elephant (GMT) 1992 (AD, ctr, pkg)
132- War Galley (AD, ctr, pkg)
133- Wellington (ctr, pkg) 2005
134- *Wilderness War (AD, pkg)
135- Winds of Plunder (ctr, cards, pkg) 2006
136- *World War 2: Barbarossa to Berlin (AD, card, pkg)
137- Zero! (AD, ctr, card, pkg)

Hobby Japan, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan

1- Air War(HJ/SPI) 1983 (pkg)
2- Assault (HJ/GDW) 1984 (pkg)
3- Assault on Leningrad (HJ/3W) 1983 (pkg)
4- Basic 3 (HJ/SPI) Bulge, Leningrad & Chinese Farm 1983 (pkg)
5- Battle for Stalingrad (HJ/SPI) 1983 (pkg)
6- Bitter End (HJ) 1985 (pkg)
7- Blue Max (HJ/3W) 1984 (pkg)
8- Carrier Strike (HJ) computer (pkg)
9- Case White (HJ/GDW) 1987 (pkg)
10- Decision at Kasserine (HJ/3W) 1984 (pkg)
11- The Fall of France (HJ/GDW) 1984 (pkg)
12- Fire in the East (HJ/GDW) 1985 (pkg)
13- Frederick the Great (HJ/AH/SPI) 1983 (pkg)
14- Iron Bottom Sound (HJ/QDG) 1982 (pkg)
15- Malaya/Burma (HJ) 1984 (pkg)
16- Mediterranean Campaign (HJ) 1987 (pkg)
17- Narvik (HJ/GDW) (pkg)
18- Norway 1940 (HJ/QDG) (pkg)
19- Operation Market Garden (HJ) 1982 (pkg)
20- Red Army (HJ/GDW) 1983 (pkg)
21- Road to the Rhine (HJ/GDW) 1983 (pkg)
22- Sniper! (HJ/SPI/TSR) 1988 (pkg)
23- Their Finest Hour (HJ/GDW) 1984 (pkg)
24- To the Far Seas (HJ) Tactics 1987 (pkg)
25- Western Desert/Near East (HJ/GDW) 1986 (pkg)

Yaquinto Publications, Inc., Dallas, TX, USA

1- Apache (YPI) 1981 (pkg)
2- Armor (YPI) 1980 (pkg)
3- Beachhead (YPI) 1980 (pkg)
4- Civil War (YPI) (Unpublished) (pkg)
5- '88' (YPI) 1980 (pkg)
6- Fall of South Vietnam (YPI) 1981 (pkg)
7- The French Foreign Legion (YPI) 1982 (pkg)
8- Mythology (YPI) 1980 (pkg)
9- Panzer (YPI) 1979 (pkg)
10- Swashbuckler (YPI) 1980 (pkg)
11- World War III (YPI) (Unpublished) (pkg)

3W Game Co., Cambria, CA, USA

1- Army of the Potomac (3W) 1983 (pkg)
2- Army of the Tennessee (3W) 1983 (pkg)
3- Clash of Empires (3W) Wargamer (AD-map)
4- Custer's Luck (3W) Wargamer 1985 (pkg)
5- Dark Crusade (3W) 1984 (pkg)
6- Duel in the Desert (3W) 1986 Wargamer (AD-map)
7- Fallen Eagle (3W) 1987 Wargamer (AD-map)
8- The Far Seas 1989 Strategy & Tactics (map art)
9- Fight on the Beaches (3W) Wargamer 1985 (pkg)
10- Fortress Stalingrad 1989 Strategy & Tactics (map art)
11- Hellfire Pass (3W) 1985 (pkg)
12- Horse Soldiers 1988 Strategy & Tactics (AD-map)
13- Kanev (S&T/PW) 1987 (AD-map)
14- Kirovograd (3W) 1983 (pkg)
15- Lawrence of Arabia (3W) 1983 (pkg)
16- Lodz (3W) 1984 Wargamer (pkg)
17- Manchu 1987 Strategy & Tactics (AD-map)
18- *Modern Naval Battles (3W) 1989 (Card Design)
19- Modern Naval Battles II (3W) 1990 (Card Design)
20- Modern Naval Battles III (3W) 1990 (Card Design)
21- Napoleon at Lutzen (3W) Wargamer 1984 (pkg)
22- Nicaragua (1988) Strategy & Tactics (AD-map)
23- North German Plain (1988) Strategy & Tactics (pkg)
24- O'Connor's Offensive (3W) (pkg)
25- Okinawa (3W) 1986 Wargamer (AD-map)
26- Patton Goes to War 1987 Strategy & Tactics (AD-map)
27- Pegasus Bridge 1988 Strategy & Tactics (map art)
28- Race to the Meuse (3W) Wargamer 1983 (pkg)
29- Red Baron (3W) Wargamer 1985 (pkg)
30- Rommel at Bay (3W) 1985 (pkg)
31- Scratch One Flattop! (3W) (pkg)
32- Struggle for Stalingrad (3W) 1985 Wargamer (pkg)
33- Tarawa (3W) (pkg)
34- The War to End Wars (3W) 1985 (pkg)

Game Designers' Workshop, Normal, IL, USA

1- Battle of Midway (GDW) 1976 (pkg)
2- Burma (GDW) 1976 (pkg)
3- Citadel (GDW) 1977 (pkg)
4- Coral Sea (GDW) (pkg)
5- Desert Victory (GDW) (Unpublished) (pkg)
6- 1815: The Waterloo Campaign (GDW) 1982 (pkg)
7- The Fall of France (GDW) 1981 (pkg)
8- Fire & Steel (GDW) 1978 (pkg)
9- Manassas (GDW) 1975 (pkg)
10- Mayday (GDW) 1978 (pkg)
11- Operation Crusader (GDW) 1978 (pkg)
12- Pearl Harbor (GDW) 1977 (pkg)
13- Red Army (GDW) 1982 (pkg)
14- Red Star/White Eagle (GDW) 1979 (pkg)
15- Suez'73 (GDW) 1980 (pkg)
16- Verdun (GDW) 1978 (pkg)
17- White Death (GDW) 1979 (pkg)

Simulations Canada, Nova Scotia, Canada

1- Assault on Tobruk (SC) 1980 (pkg)
2- Dark Stars (SC) 1980 (pkg)
3- Divine Wind (SC) 1982 (pkg)
4- IJN (SC) 1978 (pkg)
5- I Will Fight No More Forever (SC) 1979 (pkg)
6- Inchon (SC) 1981 (pkg)
7- Jihad! (SC) 1981 (pkg)
8- Kriegsmarine (SC) 1980 (pkg)
9- Le Grand Empire (SC) 1978 (pkg)
10- Torpedo (SC) 1979 (pkg)
11- Warring States (SC) 1979 (pkg)


Peoples War Games, Oakland, CA, USA

1- *Black Sea Black Death (PW) 1982 (pkg)
2- Cossacks Are Coming (PW) 1982 (pkg)
3- Kanev (PW) 1981 (pkg)
4- Korsun Pocket (PW) 1979 (pkg)

Quarterdeck Games, Cambria, CA, USA

1- Incredible Victory (QDG) 1986 (ctr & pkg)
2- Norway, 1940 (QDG) 1981 (ctr)
3- Rommel's War (QDG) 1984 (pkg)
4- *Royal Navy (QDG) 1984 (pkg)

Australian Design Group, Woden, A.C.T., Australia

1- * Days of Decision (ADG) (pkg)
2- World in Flames (ADG) 1985 (pkg)

Operational Studies Group, New York, NY, USA

1- *PanzerKrieg (OSG) 1978 (pkg)
2- Rommel & Tunisia, 1943 (OSG) 1978 (pkg)
3- *Napoleon at Bay (OSG) 1997 (ctr)
4- 1806 (OSG) 1997 (ctr)

Misc.
1- *Carriers at War (SSG) 1984 computer (pkg)
2- Drive on Frankfurt (PacRim) 1986 Counterattack (AD-map)
3- Heroes of Olympus (TFG) 1981 (pkg)
4- PanzerPranks (Chaosium) (pkg)
5- *Samurai Sunset (XTR) Command 1990 (pkg)
6- * Streets of Stalingrad (L2) 2002 (pkg)



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