The Best Pre-World War II Boardgame award is given each year as part of the Charles S. Roberts awards
2008 España 1936 Manoeuvre Pursuit of Glory Unhappy King Charles!
2007 A Fatal Attraction: The Gallipoli Campaign The Habit of Victory Talavera Marne 1918: Friedensturm
2006 Commands & Colors: Ancients Gustav Adolf the Great: With God and Victorious Arms Onward, Christian Soldiers Pax Romana
2005 Crusader Rex Flying Colors Triumph of Chaos Under the Lily Banners
2004 A Fearful Slaughter: The Battle of Shiloh The Seven Days of 1809 Three Battles of Manassas
2003 Liberty: The American Revolution 1775-83 The Rise of the Roman Republic - The Ancient World: Vol. 1 The Sun of Austerlitz Sweden Fights On
2002 Guilford Hammer of the Scots Prussia's Glory Reds! The Russian Civil War 1918-1921 This Accursed Civil War
2001 Clash of Giants Grant Takes Command Highway to the Kremlin Red Badge of Courage
2000 Austerlitz 1805: Napoleon's Greatest Victory Battle Cry Brandywine This Terrible Sound
1999 Cataphract La Bataille de Lutzen Malvern Hill War Galley
1998 Caesar: Conquest of Gaul Saratoga Summer Storm: The Battle of Gettysburg This Hallowed Ground
1997 Gaines Mill Leuthen: Frederick's Greatest Victory
1996 Battle of Buena Vista Champion Hill Great War at Sea: The Mediterranean The Great War in the Near East
1995 April's Harvest: The Battle of Shiloh, April 6 & 7, 1862 Marengo Stonewall in the Valley The Three Days Of Gettysburg - First Edition
1994 The Great Battles of Julius Caesar (The Civil Wars 48-45 B.C.) Kolin 1757: Frederick's First Defeat Landships! Tactical Weapons Innovations 1914-1918 No Better Place to Die
1993 Austerlitz Cortes: Conquest of the Aztecs Here Come the Rebels Lion of the North
1992 Across 5 Aprils I Am Spartacus! 1918: Storm in the West Gettysburg: Lee's Greatest Gamble
1991 The Chaco War The Great Battles of Alexander La Bataille de Ligny Trajan
1990 Dead of Winter Lion of Ethiopia Mississippi Fortress The Republic of Rome
1989 The Far Seas Harvest of Death: The Second Day at Gettysburg The Guns of Cedar Creek
1988 The Campaigns of Robert E. Lee The Horse Soldiers The Indian Mutiny Lee Invades the North
1987 Napoleon and the Archduke Charles: The Battle of Abensberg Britannia La Bataille d'Espagnol - Talavera Ikusa
