S. Craig Taylor
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|birth_name = S. Craig Taylor Jr.
|birth_date = March 1946{{citation needed|date=May 2015}}
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|death_date = June 2012{{citation needed|date=May 2015}}
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|years_active = 1962–?
|nationality = American
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|occupation = Game designer
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S. Craig Taylor Jr. was an American game designer who has worked primarily on board games and wargames.
Career
S. Craig Taylor Jr. first had a playtest credit on the 1962 version of Avalon Hill's version of Bismarck.{{Cite book | contribution=A House Divided | title=Hobby Games: The 100 Best | last=Taylor Jr. | first=S. Craig | editor-last=Lowder | editor-first=James | editor-link=James Lowder | publisher=Green Ronin Publishing | year=2007 | pages=150–152 | isbn=978-1-932442-96-0}} Stephen Peek and Craig Taylor worked for Battleline Publications, and that wargame company later merged into Heritage USA in an attempt to grow more rapidly; that effort did not succeed so Peek and Taylor left to establish the new wargame company Yaquinto Publications.{{Cite book|author=Shannon Appelcline|title=Designers & Dragons|publisher=Mongoose Publishing|year=2011| isbn= 978-1-907702- 58-7|pages=164}} Taylor has been a playtester, designer, developer, researcher, rules writer, and producer for well over 100 board, miniature, card, and computer games for such publishers Battleline, Yaquinto, Avalon Hill, Microprose, Imagic, SouthPeak Games, TalonSoft, Lost Battalion Games, and Breakaway Games. Taylor's credits include such designs as Wooden Ships and Iron Men, Air Force, Flattop, Battle, Wings, Gettysburg: Smithsonian Edition, Sergeants, Battlegroup, and Gettysburg: Leading the Killer Angels.{{cite journal|author=Walters, Eric M.|title=Board Wargames In Review|journal=Marine Corps Gazette|volume=73|issue=12|date=December 1989|pages=49–50}}
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