Not sure how I missed this news, but Matrix Games’ Crown of Glory won the 2006 CSR prize for Best Pre-20th Century Era Computer Wargame, beating out fellow Matrix title Tin Soldiers: Julius Caesar, Shrapnel’s Prussia’s Glory and HPS Campaign Waterloo. Considering how much I enjoyed Tin Soldiers and Prussia’s Glory relative to my mostly unsatisfying experiences with CoG, I’m a little surprised.

Crown of Glory is a bigger animal than both of those, of course. It has greater ambition than to be a miniatures game brought to life, which is essentially the Tin Soldiers and Horse & Musket model.

Congratulations to both Western Civilization and Matrix Games.

All the winners can be found here and the full nomination slate here.