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The Gamers was a wargaming company founded and run by Dean Essig in Homer, Illinois. Their distinction was the focus on a few series, with special rules for each individual game. This made it easier to play new games within a series that was well known to the players. Homercon, a convention for The Gamers games is held each September in Homer, IL. This company was bought out by Multi-Man Publishing in 2001.

Games

Civil War Brigade Series (CWBS)

• In Their Quiet Fields - (Antietam)
• Thunder at the Crossroads - (Gettysburg)
• August Fury - (2nd Battle of Bull Run)
• Barren Victory - (Chickamauga)
• Bloody Roads South - (The Wilderness)
• Perryville - (Perryville)
• Embrace an Angry Wind - (Spring Hill and Franklin)
• No Better Place to Die - (Murfreesboro)
• April's Harvest - (Shiloh)
• Champion Hill - (Champion Hill)
• Gaines Mill - (Seven Days Battle I)
• Seven Pines - (Seven Pines and Seven Days Battle II)
• Malvern Hill - (Seven Days Battle III)
• Three Battles of Manassas - (1st Bull Run, 2nd Bull Run, and hypothetical 3rd Bull Run)

Regimental Sub-Series (RSS, CWRS)

• This Hallowed Ground - (Gettysburg)
• This Terrible Sounds - (Chickamauga)
• A Fearful Slaughter - (Shiloh)

Tactical Combat Series (TCS)

• Bloody 110th - (Clervaux, Battle of the Bulge)
• Objective: Schmidt - (Hürtgen Forest, Ardennes Campaign)
• Omaha - (Omaha)
• Matanikau - (Matanikau River)
• GD '40 - (Stonne, Battle of France)
• Hunters From the Sky - (Maleme Airfield, Battle of Crete)
• Black Wednesday - (Krasny Bor)
• Leros - (Leros)
• GD '41 - (Tula Road)
• Semper Fi! - (Korean War)
• Raging Storm - (Campoleone Salient, Allied invasion of Italy)
• A Frozen Hell - (Tolvajärvi, Winter War)
• Screaming Eagles in Holland - (Veghel, Operation Market Garden)

Modern TCS

• Force Eagle's War - (Hypothetical NATO-Warsaw Pact conflict)

Operational Combat Series (OCS)

• Guderian's Blitzkrieg - (Operation Barbarossa)
• Enemy at the Gates - (Stalingrad)
• Tunisia - (Tunisia)
• Hube's Pocket - (Western Ukraine)
• DAK - (Western Desert Campaign)
• Burma - (Burma Campaign)
• Sicily - (Sicily)
• Guderian's Blitzkrieg II - (Operation Barbarossa)
• Korea: The Forgotten War - (Korean War)

Standard Combat Series (SCS)

• Stalingrad Pocket - (Stalingrad)
• Afrika - (Western Desert Campaign)
• Ardennes - (Battle of the Bulge)
• Yom Kippur - (Yom Kippur War)
• Crusader - (Tobruk)
• Gazala - (Gazala)
• Drive on Paris - (Western Front 1914)
• Fallschirmjäger - (Netherlands)
• Operation Michael - (Operation Michael)
• The Mighty Endeavor - (Operation Overlord to V-E Day)

Napoleonic Brigade Series]] (NBS)

• Austerlitz - (Austerlitz)
• Marengo - (Marengo)
• Aspern-Essling - (Aspern-Essling)

Non-Series

• Circus Minimus