Robert Markham (game designer)

Robert Markham is a prolific American wargame designer. His game Raid on St. Nazaire won the 1987 Charles S. Roberts awards for Best World War II Board Game and Best Wargame Graphics.

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Markham is credited as the designer of at least 60 board games or game items.[1] He has also run his own game publishing company with Markham Designs.[2] His co-designer for a few of his early games was Mark Seaman, who was Markham's college roommate and the best man at his wedding.[3]

Games that Robert Markham has designed or co-designed include the following:

• 1987 Raid on St. Nazaire with Mark Seaman, (1987 Charles S. Roberts Best World War II Board Game winner; 1987 Charles S. Roberts Best Wargame Graphics winner)
• 1988 Pegasus Bridge: The Beginning of D-Day – June 6, 1944 with Mark Seaman, (1988 Charles S. Roberts Best World War II Board Game nominee; 1988 Charles S. Roberts Best Wargaming Graphics nominee)
• 1988 Lee Invades the North with Mark Seaman, (1988 Charles S. Roberts Best Pre-World War II Board Game nominee)
• 1991 Royalists & Roundheads, four of the most important English Civil War battles
• 1993 The Campaigns of Frederick the Great, a 1-4 player game featuring the Seven Years' War
• 2002 Soldier Kings, a 2-8 player game featuring the Seven Years' War
• 2003 Napoleon at the Berezina, (2003 Charles S. Roberts Best Magazine-Published Board Game nominee)
• 2003 Granada: The Fall of Moslem Spain, a game featuring Ferdinand and Isabella against the Moors
• 2003 Soldier Emperor, a 2-7 player game featuring the Napoleonic Wars
• 2007 The Campaigns of King David, a 2-5 player game featuring the struggle for the Holy Land

Markham is now a retired history and English teacher who taught middle school and high school in Danbury, Connecticut, for 37 years. He served as associate editor of North & South magazine for seven years and was an editor of Volunteers magazine, another American Civil War magazine, for five years.[4]