The Best Modern Era Boardgame award is given each year as part of the Charles S. Roberts awards.
2007 Biafra! Jerusalem Sealords: The Vietnam War in the Mekong Delta
2006 Algeria: The War of Independence 1954-1962 Cold War Battles: Budapest '56 & Angola '87 La vallée de la mort Tonkin: La Guerre d'Indochine 1950-1954
2005 Crossfire Hurricane: The Battle of Long Tan August 1966 Hornet Leader II Lightning: War on Terror Warplan: Dropshot II/III
2004 Into a Bear Trap Group of Soviet Forces Germany
2003 Korea: The Forgotten War Victory in Vietnam
2002 Back to Iraq Cuban Missile Crisis
2001 Back to Iraq Kippour 1973
2000 There was no award presented in 2000.
1999 There was no award presented in 1999.
1998 There was no award presented in 1998.
1997 The First Arab-Israeli War The Forgotten War: Korea
1996 There was no award presented in 1996.
1995 Balkan Hell Crisis: Sinai 1973 Mason-Dixon: The Second American Civil War Indo-Pakistani Wars
1994 There was no award presented in 1994.
1993 Back to Iraq IDF (Israeli Defense Force) Korea '95 L.A. Lawless
1992 Thunderbolt/Apache Leader The Speed of Heat Red Christmas Flashpoint: Golan
1991 Chad: The Toyota Wars Attack Sub Desert Storm: The Mother of All Battles
1990 Arabian Nightmare: The Kuwait War Mississippi Banzai NATO, Nukes & Nazis 3rd Fleet
1989 Donau Front 5th Fleet Light Division
1988 The Hunt for Red October Nicaragua North German Plain Test of Arms
1987 Korea: The Mobile War Team Yankee Drive on Frankfurt
