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Wargames Illustrated is a magazine dedicated to miniature wargaming which is focused on historical tabletop wargames. The monthly magazine has both paper and digital editions and maintains editorial, design and administrative staff in Nottingham , England .
Wargaming magazines are a separate sub-category of gaming magazines and have had a rich history, beginning in 1964 with the publication of The General Magazine, but especially in the 1970s and 1980s when commercial board wargaming was at its peak, with some publishers having multiple titles for public consumption.
Started in 1968 by war-gaming enthusiasts Dick Bryant and Bob Beattie as a newsletter of the New England Wargamers Association, [1] The Courier underwent a glossy reboot starting in 1979. Dubbed "America's Foremost Miniatures Wargaming Magazine", The Courier featured regular columns and articles on how to collect, assemble, paint, play with ...
The new magazine now carried reviews and hobby news. To differentiate the "old" Wargamer from the new Warmgamer and its change of editorial direction, the old Wargamers from Issue 1 to Issue 62 were retroactively referred to as "Volume 1". All subsequent issues of the new Wargamer were referred to as "Volume 2". [4]
In order to publish the game, Zucker formed the company Tactical Studies Group, and convinced George Blagowidow, the owner of Hippocrene Books and distributor of SPI wargames, to buy 800 copies. On the basis of that sale, Zucker convinced SPI's printer to print 2000 copies. Zucker went to Origins '78 with the ziplock game and sold 250 copies. [1]
The magazine includes a game in every issue. A CD-ROM containing the first 26 issues in pdf format was released in 2005. Since being taken over by Compass Games, the magazine features a complete wargame in each issue. It also features reviews of new games, discussions of books of interest to wargamers, and industry news and advertisements.
Moves was a wargaming magazine originally published by SPI (Simulations Publications, Inc.), which also published manual wargames. Their flagship magazine Strategy & Tactics (S&T), was a military history magazine featuring a new wargame in each issue. While S&T was devoted to historical articles, Moves focused on the play of the games. Each ...
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