Kevin Zucker (game designer)

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Kevin Zucker is a prolific wargame designer, historian, author, and musician from the Baltimore, Maryland.^[1] Zucker is credited as the designer of over 40 board games or game items.^[2] He mostly designs Napoleonic wargames. His game Napoleon at Leipzig won the 1979 Charles S. Roberts award for Best Pre-Twentieth Century Game.

He has run the company Operational Studies Group and has been a former managing editor for Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI). Zucker helped found Conflict magazine with Dana Lombardy in the early 1970s.^[3] In 2003, he was elected to the Charles Roberts Awards Hall of Fame.

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External links

• Kevin Zucker: boardgamegeek.com designer entry