Christopher Moeller

Designed & painted · tabletop wargames

The Games

Since 2020, Moeller has brought his brush to the game table — designing and illustrating a growing line of wargames for Compass Games, from card-driven Napoleonics to a hand-painted fantasy epic.

Burning Banners: Rage of the Witch Queen box cover — the Witch Queen hovers before her tower as the kingdoms of Kalar rally

Box cover · © Compass Games

Featured · Compass Games · 2024

Burning Banners:
Rage of the Witch Queen

  • 2–6 players
  • 29 scenarios
  • 4 hand-drawn maps
  • 6 asymmetric factions

A fantasy wargame written, designed, and illustrated by Moeller — every map, counter, and card painted by hand. In the aftermath of the Worldwound, Lilith the Witch Queen rises, and the kingdoms of Kalar — the dwarven Oathborn, the raiders of Fjordland, the Eastern Empire, the vampiric Army of Night among them — must unite or perish. Scenarios run from a single evening’s battle to the full twelve-year war.

“I wrote, I drew, I designed, I tested… each of those was a different ‘hat’ to wear.”

— Moeller, on three years building Kalar
Napoleon’s Eagles box cover

Napoleon’s Eagles: Storm in the East

Compass Games · 2020 · Design & art

Card-driven Napoleonics — Borodino and Leipzig fought in an evening. No dice, no counters, no maps.

Brothers at War: 1862 box cover

Brothers at War: 1862

Compass Games · 2022 · Design & art

Brigade command in the American Civil War — a quadrigame of four 1862 battles, Antietam among them.

Napoleon’s Eagles 2: The Hundred Days box cover

Napoleon’s Eagles 2: The Hundred Days

Compass Games · 2023 · Design & art

The Waterloo campaign — Quatre Bras, Ligny, Wavre, and Waterloo itself.

Brothers at War: 1861 box cover

Brothers at War: 1861

Compass Games · Forthcoming · Design & art

The war’s first year: Bull Run, Wilson’s Creek, Carnifex Ferry, and Belmont.

Belter: Mining the Asteroids, 2076 box cover

Belter: Mining the Asteroids, 2076

Compass Games · Forthcoming · Art & additional rules

A new edition of the 1979 GDW classic, with all-new artwork and additional rules by Moeller.

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