Brief History

Wargames magazine published in Japan by Kokusai-Tsushin Co., Ltd..

Many games are reprints of (with new redesigned maps and counters):

• Command Magazine games,
• Strategy and Tactics Magazine games,
• GDW Games
• various DTP games.

However some are original Japanese games.

Links

• Japanese web site http://commandmagazine.jp

Geeklists

These geeklists (created by Elijah Lau and Takashi Ishida) contains all the details of games published in Command Magazine Japan

• Issues 1-25 : http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/17892
• Issues 26-50 : http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/17893
• Issues 51-75 : http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/17895
• Issues 76-100 : http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/42092
• Issues 101-125 : http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/73635

Magazine Issues

see pages on Command Japan

1. When Tigers Fight
2. Samurai Sunset
3. Berlin '45: The Nightmare Ends
4. Victory at Midway
5. Victory in Normandy
6. Port Arthur: The Russo-Japanese War
7. Blitzkrieg '41
8. 1918: Storm in the West
9. Sunrise of Victory
10. Japanese Task Force
11. SS Panzer: Bloodbath at Kursk
12. White Ensign / Rising Sun
13. Budapest '45
14. Ring of Fire
15. Rommel at Gazala
16. Battle for Mukden
17. 48th Panzer Korps
18. Balkans 1941
19. Sink the Bismarck!
20. Bloody October
21. When Eagles Fight
22. The First Arab-Israeli War
23. Battle of the Bulge
24. Inchon: MacArthur's Gambit
25. Strike North
26. Rise and Decline of Hitler's Empire
27. Lion of Ethiopia
28. Mississippi Banzai
29. Gettysburg: Lee's Greatest Gamble / The Moscow Option: Guderian's Gambit
30. 1914: Glory's End
31. The African Campaign
32. Victory at Sea
33. Russian Campaign II
34. Drive to the Baltic! / Grunwald 1410
35. Fortress Europa
36. Shingen's Last Fight
37. Europe at War
38. 1940 / The Battle of the Alma
39. Rush on Berlin / Battle for Moscow
40. Russo-Japanese War
41. The Royal Navy
42. Battle for China
43. I Am Spartacus! / Clash of Steel: Battleship Engagements of WWII
44. Okinawa
45. 1941 / The Battle of Lobositz
46. D-Day / Battle of the Bulge
47. Panzer Korps
48. Decision in France
49. The Tigers Are Burning / Back to Iraq
50. Operation Ironfist
51. Destroyer Captain
52. Napoleon in Sunset, 1814 / Dynamo: Dunkirk, 1940
53. 8th Army: Operation Crusader
54. Shogun Triumphant
55. The Russo-Japanese War
56. Turning the Tables / Shinshu Seiatsu
57. Minsk '41 / 1942
58. Korea '95
59. Antietam: Burnished Rows of Steel
60. Ukraine '43
61. Hougoumont / Battle of Hokuetsu, 1867
62. Tigers in the Mist
63. Forgotten Axis: Murmansk 1941
64. Onslaught
65. Yom Kippur
66. ATS Basic Game II: Streets of Stalingrad
67. Kadesh: Mobile Warfare in the Ancient Middle East
68. Invasion Sicily
69. True Record of Nobunaga / Hideyoshi's Greatest Defeat
70. Ukraine '44
71. Field Marshal
72. The First World War / SS - Third Reich
73. The Sedan Campaign, 1870
74. Panzer Korps II
75. Moscow Blitzkrieg Operation Barbarossa / Across the Dniepr: Kiev-Zhitomir '43 / Toukai-yuukyouden - Jirotyo-sangokushi
76. Velikye Luki
77. Malaya '41: The Fall of Singapore
78. Tenka Goudatsu
79. Temujin's Battles / The Story of Genghis' Conquest of the West / Street Fighting in Berlin
80. Blitzwar
81. Patton's Third Army: The Lorraine Campaign
82. Second Front Now! / Battle of Changkufeng Hill 1938
83. Blue & Gray
84. Panzer Korps 03 : Moscow '41 Operation Typhoon
85. Panzer Korps 04 : Red Typhoon
86. The Old Contemptibles
87. Barbarossa: The Russo-German War, 1941-45
88. The Aleutians Campaign / 73rd parallel north
89. Beda Fomm / The Battle of Prague
90. Solomons Campaign
91. Bloody Kasserine / Race For Tunis
92. Red Dragon Rising: The Coming War With China
93. Drive on Kursk: July 1943
94. Blitzkrieg in Burma / Flying Tigers
95. June '44 / August '44
96. White Death
97. Battle for Korsun
98. Dagger Thrust
99. Iron Dream
100. Hongrie 1944-1945
101. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
102. Battle for Germany / Race to Tokyo
103. 1940 : What If
104. Battle of Kawagoe: the Gamble of Hojo Ujiyasu / The Battle of the Itsukushima, 1554-1555

Extra issue

[edit note : to be completed and issues are in BGG database]
see pages on Command Japan

1. N/A
2. N/A
3. Poland '39: The Nightmare Begins
4. N/A
5. N/A
6. Victory at Midway
7. Operation Husky: The Campaign for Sicily
8. Wave of Terror
9. Blitzkrieg 1940
10. Operation Sea Lion
11. Great War at Sea: U. S. Navy Plan Orange
12. MacArthur's Return: Leyte 1944
13. Japanese Task Force 2: Carrier Battles in the Pacific, 1944
14. N/A
15. SG Design Kit
16. Battle of the Bulge
17. Imperium
18. Ring of Fire
19. Mississippi Banzai / Black Gold (Texas Tea)
20. 1918: Storm in the West / Royal Tank Corps
21. We Must Tell the Emperor (include We Must Tell the Emperor Expansion Kit)

Japan Wargames classics

Reprints of previous magazine issues (see Wargame classics page)

1. Japanese Task Force - reprint of issue #10 game
2. Russo-Japanese War - reprint of issue #40 game

Command - Special reprinted edition

Reprints of older out-of-print magazine issues (see Special page)

1. When Tigers Fight - reprint of issue #1 game

Command - The Best

Original games, reprints of previous magazine issue games and English games
(see Command - The Best )

1. Victory at Sea - reprint of issue #32 game - 2002
2. Rise and Decline of Hitler's Empire - reprint of issue #26 game - 2002
3. SS Panzer: Bloodbath at Kursk - reprint of issue #11 game - 2003
4. Panzergrenadier (Western Front 1944 : Normandy Arnhem Ardennes) - reprint of Japanese game - 2003
5. The African Campaign - reprint of issue #31 game - 2004
6. East Front (Eastern Front 1943-45 : Kursk Ukraine Hungary Germany) - reprint of Japanese game - 2005
7. The Legend Begins - new Japanese edition 2005
8. Drive to the Baltic! / Budapest '45 - reprint of issue # 34 and issue #13 - 2006
9. Asian Fleet - original game 2007
10. Russia Besieged - reprint of English game - 2008
11. Port Arthur: The Russo-Japanese War / Mukden : Climax of the Russo-Japanese War - reprint of issue #6 and reprint of English game - 2009
12. Wave of Terror - reprint of English game - 2011

World war Series

(see World war page)

1. No Retreat! - reprint of English game - 2009
2. Russian Campaign II - reprint of issue #33 game - 2010
3. The Barbarossa Campaign - reprint of English game - 2011

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