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1. Introduction

Command (Japan) is a wargame magazine published in Japan by Kokusai-Tsushin Co., Ltd. (国際通信社). It contains one or several die-cut wargames in Japanese. Over the years, boxed games were published.

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

However some are original Japanese games.

2. Links

Website and forum:

Geeklists (created by Elijah Lau and Takashi Ishida) containing game details:

3. Magazine Issues

Bimonthly, first published in December 1994
(see Command Japan webpage)

  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: The 1942 Campaign in Russia
  10. Task Force: Carrier Battles in the Pacific
  11. SS Panzer: Bloodbath at Kursk
  12. White Ensign / Rising Sun
  13. Budapest '45
  14. Ring of Fire: The Fourth Battle for Kharkov, August 1943
  15. Rommel at Gazala
  16. Battle for Mukden
  17. 48th Panzer Korps: Battles on the River Chir
  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. The 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: The Bloodiest Battle In The Pacific
  45. 1941: Operation Barbarossa / The Battle of Lobositz
  46. D-Day / The Battle of the Bulge: Panzers in the Snow
  47. Panzer Korps / Operation Solace (map only available as a download - die cut counters included)
  48. Decision in France / Across the Potomac (map only available as a download)
  49. The Tigers Are Burning / Back to Iraq / Hamburger Hill (map only available as a download)
  50. Operation Ironfist / Odessa 1941 (map only available as a download - die cut counters included)
  51. Destroyer Captain
  52. Napoleon in Sunset, 1814 / Dynamo: Dunkirk, 1940
  53. 8th Army: Operation Crusader – The Winter Battles for Tobruk, 1941
  54. Shogun Triumphant
  55. The Russo-Japanese War
  56. Turning the Tables / Shinshu's Suppression
  57. Minsk '41 / 1942
  58. Korea '95
  59. Antietam: Burnished Rows of Steel
  60. Ukraine '43
  61. Hougoumont: Rock of Waterloo / 河井継之助 最後の賭け (Tsuginosuke Kawai's Last Gamble)
  62. Tigers in the Mist: Ardennes Offensive
  63. Forgotten Axis: Murmansk 1941
  64. Onslaught
  65. Yom Kippur: The Battle for the Sinai, October, 1973
  66. Advanced Tobruk System 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 / KOREA 2005: The ROK Goes North
  74. Panzer Korps II
  75. Blitzkrieg to Moscow / Across the Dniepr: Kiev-Zhitomir '43 / Toukai-yuukyouden: Jirotyo-sangokushi
  76. Velikye Luki
  77. Malaya '41: The Fall of Singapore / Asian Fleet expansion 1
  78. Tenka Goudatsu
  79. Temujin's Battles / The Story of Genghis' Conquest of the West / Street Fighting in Berlin
  80. Blitzwar
  81. Patton's 3rd Army: The Lorraine Campaign
  82. Second Front Now! / Battle of Changkufeng Hill 1938
  83. Blue & Gray: Four American Civil War Battles
  84. Panzer Korps 03: Moscow '41 Operation Typhoon
  85. Panzer Korps 04: Red Typhoon
  86. The Old Contemptibles at Mons, 1914
  87. Barbarossa: The Russo-German War, 1941-45
  88. The Aleutians Campaign: The North America Theatre in WW2 / 73 North
  89. Beda Fomm / The Battle of Prague
  90. The Solomons Campaign (Second Edition)
  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: The Struggle for Normandy, 1944 / August '44
  96. White Death: Velikiye Luki, The Stalingrad of the North
  97. Battle for Korsun
  98. Dagger Thrusts: Patton & Montgomery, September 1944
  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: Hojo Ujiyasu's gamble / Battle of Itsukushima, 1554-1555
  105. Falklands Showdown: The 1982 Anglo-Argentine War
  106. COBRA: The Normandy Campaign
  107. Coral Sea Solitaire
  108. Crush at Nomonhan / Nomonhan Incident (Panzer Grenadier: Western Front 1944,Expansion)
  109. Rundstedt's East Front / Odessa 1941
  110. Crisis Now Senkaku Showdown
  111. The Battle of Changde: Operation Yo Go
  112. Army Group Narwa
  113. The Battle of Gettysburg / Antietam
  114. Coral Sea: Campaign Commander Series / Imphal 1944 (map only available as a download - die cut counters included)
  115. Operation Market Garden: Descent Into Hell
  116. A Victory Complete: The Battle of Tannenberg, 1914
  117. The Siege of Leningrad
  118. IJA Tank Division Series: Operation Ichi-Go
  119. Six Days' Campaign, 1814 / Emperor Napoleon
  120. The Bloody Triangle: Drive on Dubno, 1941 / The Battle of the Bulge
  121. Operation Battleaxe: Wavell vs. Rommel, 1941 / Gazala: The Cauldron
  122. 1815: The Waterloo Campaign
  123. Vistula-Oder-Berlin: the campaign in Poland and East Germany, 1945
  124. Zhijiang Campaign, 1945
  125. The Invasion of Russia (1812)
  126. Celles: The Ardennes, December 23-27, 1944
  127. France '40: Sickle Cut
  128. The American Revolution: Decision in North America
  129. Clash of Titans: The Tank Battle for Kursk, 1943
  130. World War I: Deluxe Edition
  131. Roads to Moscow: Mozhaysk
  132. Manstein's Trump: The Third Battle of Kharkov
  133. Operation Grenade: The Battle for the Rhineland 23 Feb. - 5 Mar. '45
  134. Battle for Russia: Operation Barbarossa, June-December 1941
  135. France '40: Dynamo
  136. Hitler Strikes North
  137. Northern Battle, Sekigahara 1600
  138. Roads to Moscow: Mtsensk
  139. The Siege of Orgun: Afghanistan, 1983
  140. The Kaiser's War: World War I, 1918-19
  141. Normandy 1944
  142. August Storm
  143. Codeword Thunderclap
  144. Tenkatoitsu: Nagakute 1584
  145. The American Civil War
  146. The Battle of Guandu
  147. Eisenhower's War
  148. Afrikakorps: Decision in the Desert, 1941-42
  149. Tenkatoitsu: Yamazaki 1582
  150. Red Winter: The Soviet Attack at Tolvajärvi, Finland – 8-12 December 1939
  151. Triumphant Return: The Soviet Liberation of Kiev, November 1943
  152. Records of Three Kingdoms 190-280
  153. The Battle of Mimigawa 1578
  154. The Caucasus Campaign
  155. Last Battle: Ie Shima, 1945
  156. Escape to Nowhere: Army Group South, December 1943-April 1944
  157. Sixth Fleet
  158. Desert Fox: Tobruk '41
  159. Tenkatoitsu: Sekigahara 1600
  160. The Hardest Days
  161. Return to the Rock: Corregidor, 1945
  162. A Story of the Three Kingdoms
  163. Mukden: Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905
  164. Battle of Shanghai 1937
  165. The Greek Civil War, 1947-49
  166. Marengo: Napoleon in Italy, 14 June 1800
  167. SMS Emden
  168. Tomorrow the World, Volume 2: The Air War
  169. Jena-Auerstadt: The Battle for Prussia, 14 October 1806
  170. Cruise of the Graf Spee

4. Command - Extra Issues

(see Command - Extra Issues webpage)

  1. Alexandros - 1995
  2. Poland '39: The Nightmare Begins - 1996
  3. Clash of Steel: Battleship Engagements of WWII - 1996
  4. Zitadelle: Duel for Kursk - 1996
  5. Stalingrad Pocket - 1997
  6. Victory at Midway - 1997
  7. Operation Husky: The Campaign for Sicily - 1997
  8. Wave of Terror - 1997
  9. Blitzkrieg 1940 - 1998
  10. Operation Sea Lion - 1998
  11. Great War at Sea: U.S. Navy Plan Orange - 1999
  12. MacArthur's Return: Leyte 1944 - 1999
  13. Japanese Task Force 2: Carrier Battles in the Pacific, 1944 - 1999
  14. Total War - 2000
  15. SG Design Kit - 2000
  16. Battle of the Bulge - 2000
  17. Imperium: Empires in Conflict – Worlds in the Balance - 2001
  18. Ring of Fire: The Fourth Battle for Kharkov, August 1943 - 2001
  19. Mississippi Banzai / Black Gold (Texas Tea) - 2002
  20. 1918: Storm in the West / Royal Tank Corps - 2002
  21. We Must Tell the Emperor (including We Must Tell the Emperor: Expansion Kit) - 2012
  22. Blue & Gray: Four American Civil War Battles - 2022

5. Command - The Best

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

  1. Victory at Sea - issue #32 game reprint - 2002
  2. Rise and Decline of Hitler's Empire - issue #26 game reprint - 2002
  3. SS Panzer: Bloodbath at Kursk - reprint of issue #11 game - 2003
  4. Panzer Grenadier: Western Front 1944 (Western Front 1944 : Normandy Arnhem Ardennes) - Japanese game reprint - 2003
  5. The African Campaign - issue #31 game reprint - 2004
  6. East Front (Eastern Front 1943-45 : Kursk Ukraine Hungary Germany) - Japanese game reprint - 2005
  7. The Legend Begins: North Africa, 1940-42 - new Japanese edition - 2005
  8. Drive to the Baltic! / Budapest '45 - issue # 34 and #13 reprint - 2006
  9. Asian Fleet - original game - 2007
  10. Russia Besieged - English game translation - 2008
  11. Port Arthur: The Russo-Japanese War / Mukden: Climax of the Russo-Japanese War - issue #6 reprint and English game translation - 2009
  12. Wave of Terror - English game translation - 2011
  13. Panzer Korps II - issue #74 game update with extra "Gazala" game - 2013
  14. Red Dragon Rising: The Coming War With China - issue #92 game update - 2017
  15. Red Typhoon: The Soviet Winter Counter-Offensive, 1942 - issue #85 game update - 2017
  16. We Must Tell the Emperor (including We Must Tell the Emperor: Expansion Kit) - extra issue #21 reprint - 2020
  17. 元亀争乱: ソリティア信長包囲網 元亀争乱 (Genki Sōran) - Wargame Japan #18 reprint - 2021

6. Command "Etcera"

Basic wargames for beginners
(see Command Etcera webpage).

  1. Masakado chronicle - 2005
  2. Pacific War: War at Sea in the Pacific 1941-1944 - 2014
  3. The Pacific War: From Pearl Harbor to Philippine Sea - 2014 (Pacific War Deluxe)
  4. Tanks+ - 2017

7. Japan Wargame Classics

Reprints of Japanese classic wargames
(see Japan Wargame Classics webpage)

  1. Task Force: Carrier Battles in the Pacific - issue #10 game reprint - 2009
  2. Russo-Japanese War - issue #40 game reprint - 2009
  3. Panzer Korps - issue #47 game update with extra "Compass" game - 2013
  4. Battle of the Bulge - issue #23 game reprint - 2014
  5. Malay Campaign - Japanese game reprint - 2018
  6. Minsk '41 - issue #57 game update with extra "Riga '41" game - 2019

8. World War Series

Specialized in WW2
(see World War Series webpage)

  1. No Retreat!: The Russian Front 1941-1944 - English game translation - 2009
  2. The Russian Campaign II - issue #33 game reprint - 2010
  3. The Barbarossa Campaign - English game translation - 2011
  4. Stalingrad - Japanese game reprint - 2012
  5. Across the Pacific - English game translation - 2014
  6. Iron Bottom Sound III - English game update (3rd edition) - 2015
  7. Fleet Commander: Nimitz – The WWII Pacific Ocean Solitaire Strategy Game - English game translation - 2016
  8. Zhukov's War: The Decisive Middle Phase of the Eastern Front, July 1942 – July 1943 - English game translation - 2017
  9. Panzer Korps II - The Best issue #13 game reprint - 2020
  10. Panzer Korps 03: Moscow '41 Operation Typhoon / Panzer Korps 04: Red Typhoon - reprint of issues #84 and #85 games - 2022
  11. No Retreat!: The North African Front - English game translation - 2023

9. Wargame Handbook

Annual handbook including elementary wargame for beginners
(see Wargame Handbook webpage)

  1. Destination: Normandy - 2010
  2. Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905 - 2011
  3. Isoroku's War 1941-1943 - 2012
  4. Fierce Battle! Rommel's Corps / Fierce Battle! Kawanakajima - 2013
  5. Operation Barbarossa - 2014
  6. Battle of Waterloo, 1815 - 2015
  7. The Big Red One: The Game of the First Infantry Division at the Battle of the Bulge - 2016
  8. Battle of Tabaruzaka - 2017
  9. Battle of Komaki and Nagakute / Night Raid on Gongchangling - 2018
  10. Kawanakajima / Tanks β - 2019

10. Command - Special reprinted edition

Reprints of older out-of-print magazine issues
(see Special webpage)
  1. When Tigers Fight - issue #1 game reprint - 2011

11. Command 40 Series

Small wargames including 40 counters
(see Command 40 Series webpage)
  1. Fierce Battle! Rommel's Corps - 2012
  2. Fierce Battle! Kawanakajima - 2012

12. Command Tactical Combat Series

Tactical wargames for beginners
(see Command Tactical Combat Series webpage)
  1. F-16 Fighting Falcon - Japanese game reprint - 2013
  2. Decisive Battle of the Combined Fleet - Japanese game reprint - 2014
  3. Clash in the South Pacific - Japanese game reprint - 2014
  4. Zero: Battles of the Navy Air Service - 2014
  5. Tanks - Japanese game reprint - 2015

13. Command Solitaire Series

Solitaire only wargames
(see Command Solitaire Series webpage)
  1. Operation Jubilee: Dieppe, August 1942 - English game translation - 2015
  2. Target: Iran - English game translation - 2015
  3. Goeben, 1914 - English game translation - 2016
  4. Ghost Division: The 7th Panzer Division's Drive to the Sea - English game translation - 2018
  5. Pacific Subs - English game translation (newly added IJN scenarios) - 2021

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