James M. Day

James M. Day is an American game designer best known for military based board games, computer games, card games, and miniature rules. He is also an accomplished historian and military weaponry subject matter expert.

His first published title was the board game Panzer[1] from Yaquinto Publications in 1979. This was followed shortly by the board games 88[2] and Armor[3] from the same publisher.

Wrapped around 25 years as a healthcare administrator and IT director, from 1990 through 1995, Day was a game designer and producer for MicroProse Software. During his stint, he was responsible for the games Gunship 2000,[4] Gunship 2000: Islands & Ice,[5] F-15 Strike Eagle III,[6] and Across the Rhine.[7]

During the next several years, Day continued to contribute to a number of game and historical publications, as well as designed the board games MBT[8] and IDF[9] for the Avalon Hill Company and wrote the user manual for Jane's F/A-18.[10]

Day returned to his original interest in miniatures designing the Panzer Miniatures Rules for StrikeNet Games.[11] The card game The Kaiser’s Pirates[12] was published in 2007 for StrikeNet Games—included in Games Magazine's top 100 for 2008. The Kaiser's Pirates was re-published by GMT Games in 2009. It was nominated for a Charles S. Roberts award in 2010.

The World War II tactical combat board game Panzer was published in 2012 by GMT Games.[13] It was nominated for a Charles S. Roberts award in 2013.

It was followed by two expansion sets in 2012, Panzer Expansion#1: The Shape of Battle - The Eastern Front[14] and Panzer Expansion#2: The Final Forces on the Eastern Front.[15] The third expansion set followed in 2014, Panzer Expansion#3: Drive to the Rhine - The 2nd Front.[16] Panzer Expansion #1 was nominated for a Charles S. Roberts award in 2013. The fourth expansion, Panzer Expansion#4: France 1940 is scheduled to be released in 2018.[17]

Day went in a different direction designing the American Civil War tactical naval game Iron & Oak. It was published in 2013 by GMT Games.[18]

Day designed a new version of the modern tactical combat board game MBT in 2016;[19] its two companion expansions FRG and BAOR are scheduled to be released in 2018 by GMT Games.[20][21]

References
  1. "Panzer (first edition)". BoardGameGeek. Retrieved 2018-04-24.
  2. "88". BoardGameGeek. Retrieved 2018-04-24.
  3. "Armor". BoardGameGeek. Retrieved 2018-04-24.
  4. "Gunship 2000 for DOS". Moby Games. Retrieved 2018-04-24.
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-06-21. Retrieved 2007-03-11.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. "F-15 Strike Eagle III for DOS (1992) - MobyGames". MobyGames.
  7. "Across the Rhine for DOS (1995) - MobyGames". MobyGames.
  8. "MBT (first edition)". BoardGameGeek.
  9. "IDF (Israeli Defense Force)". BoardGameGeek.
  10. "Jane's Combat Simulations: F/A-18 Simulator (2000) Windows credits". MobyGames. Retrieved 2018-04-24.
  11. "Panzer Miniatures". BoardGameGeek.
  12. "The Kaiser's Pirates". BoardGameGeek.
  13. "Panzer - Reprint Ed". GMT Games, LLC. Retrieved 2018-04-24.
  14. "Board Game Publisher specializing in strategy and war games but also offering a line of family and Euro games". GMT Games, LLC. Archived from the original on 2014-12-06. Retrieved 2014-11-29.
  15. "Panzer Expansion #2: The Final Forces on the Eastern Front". GMT Games, LLC.
  16. "Panzer Exp. #3: Drive to the Rhine - The 2nd Front". GMT Games, LLC.
  17. "Panzer Expansion #4: France 1940". GMT Games, LLC.
  18. "Iron and Oak". GMT Games, LLC.
  19. "MBT". GMT Games, LLC.
  20. "FRG: MBT Expansion". GMT Games, LLC.
  21. "BAOR: MBT Expansion". GMT Games, LLC.
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