Kevin Zucker

Kevin S. Zucker (born June 26, 1952) is an American wargame designer, historian, author, and musician.

SPI Kevin Zucker started playing board wargames as a teenager in La Jolla, California, and began to design his own games. Zucker then moved to New York to work for the wargame publisher Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI). Zucker worked his way up to Production Manager, and over two years, oversaw production of 24 issues of Strategy & Tactics plus the games enclosed in each issue, and 48 boxed games.

OSG Zucker left SPI in January 1976, but stayed in New York and spent his time working in bookstores and studying music.

In October 2008, Zucker announced that OSG was going out of business at the end of the year, but after a year-long hiatus, the company recommenced production with The Coming Storm, which was a finalist for the Charles S. Roberts Award for "Best Ancient to Napoleonic Era Wargame of 2010".

In addition to designing Napoleonic games for OSG, Zucker also became interested in flower essence therapy, and created The Flower Essence Game for the Flower Essence Society in 2018.

Published games SPI Bloody Ridge (in Island War Quad), 1974, SPI Napoleon's Last Battles, 1975, SPI; reprinted in 1984 by TSR, and in 1995 by Decision Games

OSG Napoleon at Bay, 1978; reprinted in 1983 by Avalon Hill, and by OSG in 1997 Battles of the Hundred Days, 1979; reprinted in 1983 by Avalon Hill Arcola, 1979; reprinted (as Battle for Italy) in 1983 by Avalon Hill Napoleon at Leipzig, 1979; reprint 1989 and 1994 by Clash of Arms; 5th Ed. 2013 OSG Bonaparte in Italy, 1980; reprinted in 2000 1806: Rossbach Avenged, 1998 La Guerre de l'Empereur (The Emperor's War) 1998 Last Days of the Grande Armée, 1999 Highway to the Kremlin, 2001; 2d Ed., 2021 The Sun of Austerlitz, 2003 Seven Days of 1809, 2004 Four Lost Battles, 2005; 2d Ed., 2022 Napoleon at the Crossroads, 2006 The Habit of Victory, 2007 The Coming Storm, 2010 The Last Success, 2012 La Patrie en Danger, 2014 Napoleon Against Russia, 2015 Napoleon’s Last Gamble, 2016 Napoleon’s Quagmire, 2017 Napoleon’s Resurgence, 2018 Napoleon Retreats, 2019 Napoleon's Wheel, 2020 Napoleon Invades Spain, 2021 Bonaparte in the Quadrilateral, 2022 Bonaparte Overruns Piedmont, 2023

Avalon Hill Struggle of Nations, 1982

Victory Games 1809: Napoleon on the Danube, 1984

Clash of Arms The Emperor Returns, 1986 1807: The Eagles Turn East, 1994

Self-published The Flower Essence Game, 2018

Historical Research Series Nr. 1, 1813: The Year That Doomed the Empire, 2007; Second Edition, 2016 Nr. 2, 1806: The Autumn of No Return, 2008 Nr. 3, 1807: Stalemate in the Snow, 2008 Nr. 4, 1807: Triumph Without Victory, 2008 Nr. 5, 1806: The Coming Storm, 2009 Nr. 6, 1809: A Fatal Necessity, 2012 Nr. 7, 1814: The Fall of Empire, 2016 (with Louis Bélanger)