{"id":2,"date":"2010-07-01T14:25:51","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T14:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.new.hmsgrd.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2010-07-06T23:34:01","modified_gmt":"2010-07-06T23:34:01","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.hmsgrd.com\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About HMS⁄GRD"},"content":{"rendered":"

For almost three decades one series of games has been dedicated to a detailed study of the Second World War in the European and Mediterranean Theaters of Operations.
\nThis award-winning series, called Europa<\/strong>, covers this great struggle from the civil war in Spain to the final victory of the United Nations.<\/p>\n

The game series was introduced with the release of Drang Nach Osten<\/strong> , designed and produced by Frank Chadwick and Rich Banner. They formed a company called Game Designers’ Workshop<\/strong> .
\nFrom that first design in 1974 came the games that covered the rest of the European, Mediterranean, and African theaters.<\/p>\n

Drang Nach Osten<\/strong> was immediately accepted by military history enthusiasts and gamers. Each subsequent title built on that acceptance and created a cadre of people who play and participate in the series to this day.<\/p>\n

In 1985 a company was formed to support this game series. John Astell, the principle designer of the series, and Winston Hamilton, a developer and designer of WWII games, formed Game Research\/Design<\/strong>, a company committed to the enhancement of Europa. They produced a set of accessories dedicated to the games. They also began a newsletter that became the
\nmagazine, Europa<\/strong>. In 1989 GDW<\/strong> transferred the copyrights and trademark of Europa<\/strong> to GR\/D<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Since then the company has brought out the Collector’s Edition<\/strong> series of Europa<\/strong> games, and begun two new series based on the Europa<\/strong> system: Glory: Pacific Theater 1937-45\u2122<\/strong> and The Great War: World War I On All Fronts\u2122<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Upon Winston Hamilton’s death in March, 2001, GR\/D<\/strong> was purchased and became a part of Mill Creek Ventures, Inc. <\/strong>as GRD Games. <\/strong><\/p>\n

In June 2004, GRD Games<\/strong>‘ assets and specific obligations were offered to Historical Military Services<\/strong>. HMS<\/strong> had worked with GRD Games<\/strong> for a number of years and brings additional resources to continue the series and commitment to Grand Europa<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For almost three decades one series of games has been dedicated to a detailed study of the Second World War in the European and Mediterranean Theaters of Operations. This award-winning series, called Europa, covers this great struggle from the civil war in Spain to the final victory of the United Nations. The game series was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hmsgrd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hmsgrd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hmsgrd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hmsgrd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hmsgrd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.hmsgrd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37,"href":"http:\/\/www.hmsgrd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hmsgrd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}