Strategy and Tactics Magazine

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction

This page is an index of games published in each 2-monthly issue of the wargaming magazine Strategy & Tactics. Every S&T game entry links back to this page.

Strategy & Tactics magazine presents a similar format with Decision Games other two magazines, Modern War and World at War.

Current Issue - see Strategy & Tactics Press website.

2. Brief History

First published in 1966, games started to appear in each issue (starting with issue #18) from 1969 after a takeover by Jim Dunnigan, who founded SPI to publish the magazine. Following the demise of SPI the magazine passed through several hands until Decision Games took it over circa 1991. In addition to featuring games in each issue, the magazine also contains military history articles, often relevant to the game in that issue. Since issue 176 the magazine has also been sold, gameless, at newstands.

In 2007, Strategy and Tactics Press was spun off from Decision Games to take on the responsibility of publishing the magazine, along with a new stablemate World at War magazine, which will focus on WWII themed games, leaving S&T free to explore other battles. In 2012 Decision Games launched Modern War, which focus on modern war themed games, from post-1945 to the near future.

Games in issues prior to number 18 contain only written rules, instructions and/or lists of units bound-in (to the magazine) but no finished components. For example: Crete (issue 18) is bound into the magazine itself (including the mapsheets). The games in S&T from 19 to 25 came with components but the counters were uncut and unmounted. These counters require the buyer to glue them to pressboard or tileboard, and then cut them. All SPI games from issue 26 were mounted.

A Quick History of S&T.

A complete history on Tactical Wargamer website.

Publishers

Project Analysis - Issues 1 - 16
SPI - Issues 17 - 90
TSR - Issues 91 - 111
3W - Issues 112 - 139
Decision Games - Issues 140 and after

3. Links

Strategy and Tactics Magazine Visual Index.

Weblinks:

BGG Geeklists:
A series of Geeklists, from the Meta-List: Magazine Wargames, created by Eric Miller, Thom Denholm, Andreas E. Gebhardt, Chris Hansen and Javier Romero covering these games:

Meta-List: Magazine Wargames

BGG Tag: s_and_t.

4. Magazine Issues

4.1 Standard issues

To be published:

(S&T 342) Carolingian Twilight: Decline of an Empire AD814
(S&T 343) Operation Albion: Germany versus Russia in the Baltic, 1917-1918

4.2 Special Issues

Gameless issues containing military history articles and game variants/errata.
Published by TSR.

"Strategic weapons in the 80s"
"The Soviet Navy" - Fall 1983
"Overlord"
"The Armored Fist"

4.3 Supplements

The primary purpose of S&T Supplement was to allow readers of S&T to submit articles about whatever they wanted. They came out in 1970-1971.

"Waffen SS, True Hidden Search for Naval Wargames"
"Module Blitzkrieg, Terrain for Miniatures"
"Strategy 1, The Eastern Front in 1914"
"Ancient Rome, Nuclear Weaponry in Blitzkrieg"
"Ostkrieg, Wargaming Theory"
"Mathematics in Wargame Design, S&T Index"
"Two Blitzkrieg Variants, Casualty Causation in W.W.I - 1914, Ostkrieg - Conclusion"
"Airpower in Miniatures, Operations Orders, Jutland with a Battleboard"
"The Scenarios for Tac 13 - Centurion, Battle of Punta Angamos, Tannenberg - A Russian Plan"
"Korea, Line of Sight Hex Grids, Waffen SS Addendum"
"Dark Ages Revisited, Campaign Analysis, Parachuting in Miniatures"

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