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Strategy & Tactics was first published in January 1967 under its original editor, Chris Wagner, intended as a better alternative to Avalon Hill's magazine, The General. [1]: 101 Strategy & Tactics began life as a wargaming fanzine published by Wagner (then a staff sergeant with the US Air Force in Japan), at first in Japan, then moving to the United States with Wagner.
October War: Doctrine and Tactics in the Yom Kippur Conflict, 1973 (S&T #61, 1977) Oil War (S&T #52, 1975) Okinawa: The Last Battle (Island War quadrigame, 1975) The Omega War (1983) Operation Grenade (S&T #84, 1981) Operation Olympic: The Invasion of Japan 1 November 1945 (S&T #45, 1974) Operation Typhoon: The German Assault on Moscow, 1941 ...
The cover of Strategy & Tactics #46, which contained Combined Arms as a pull-out game. Combined Arms, subtitled "Combat Operations in the 20th Century", is a board wargame published by Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI) in 1974 that simulates various combat engagements in the mid-twentieth century
TSR soon learned that one reason for SPI's demise was the collapse of the wargame market in the early 1980s. As a result, rather than becoming a major player in the wargame market, TSR published fewer and fewer wargames. Eventually TSR discontinued all the SPI magazines except for Strategy & Tactics. In 1987, TSR sold the rights to S&T to 3W.
It was meant to introduce new players to the wargame hobby. In addition to being sold in stores, a free copy of Napoleon at Waterloo was mailed to new subscribers of Strategy & Tactics. [4] In addition, non-subscribers could get a free copy of the game simply by writing to SPI. [5]
Cover of Strategy & Tactics #47, which contained the pull-out game Wolfpack. Wolfpack, subtitled "Submarine Warfare in the North Atlantic, 1942–44", is a solitaire board wargame published by Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI) in 1974 that simulates a four-month period during the Battle of the Atlantic.
Cover of the flat-pack version, 1972. Armageddon: Tactical Combat, 3000-500 BC is a board wargame first published by Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI) in 1972 in Strategy & Tactics, then released as a stand-alone game, then reimplemented as Chariot: Tactical Warfare in the "Biblical" Age, 3000-500 BC.
Cover of Strategy & Tactics #43, which contained the pull-out game. The same artwork was used on the boxed set released later the same year. The American Civil War: 1861–1865 is a board wargame published by Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI) in 1974 that is a strategic simulation of the American Civil War.