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Modern War Magazine #49: Objective Munich

Expected Q1 2021 (liable to change without notice), see our Terms for Pre-Orders.
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Objective Munich is a two-player alternative history wargame intended to investigate the operational parameters that would have been in place during the first four days of fighting in that border area of West Germany had the Soviet Union decided to try to attack sometime in the early 1980s. It was  ...More...

Modern War Magazine #54: The Nagorno-Karabakh War: 1992-1994

The Nagorno-Karabakh War: 1992-1994 is a two-player wargame of the war between Azerbaijan and the breakaway province (Oblast) of Nagorno-Karabakh, inhabited by an Armenian majority. After the first ethnic clashes between Armenians and Azeri, during the death throes of the Soviet Union, Nagorno-Karabakh  ...More...

Strategy And Tactics Quarterly 14: Prelude To WW1

Origins of World War I: The Great War was both inevitable and eminently avoidable, but the mesh of ambition and perceived threats overcame every effort to stave off hostilities. This work examines those interests and the world through British, French, German, Austro-Hungarian, Russian, Italian, and  ...More...

Strategy And Tactics Quarterly 15: AlexAnder

Alexander the Great: Few historical figures are better known than Alexander III (the Great) of Macedon, whose epic conquest of the Eastern Mediterranean world is the stuff of legend. With great talent comes great ambition, however, Alexander was driven to outdo his predecessors, driving his army  ...More...

World At War Magazine #77: Winter War

Winter War is a two player operational level wargame covering the Soviet invasion of Finland over the Winter of 1939-40. The Soviets initially expected a quick victory. However, the Finns, under the leadership of Carl Gustav Mannerheim, resisted and outmaneuvered the more ponderous Red Army forces.  ...More...

World At War Magazine #78: Drive On Suez

Drive on Suez: Rommel Drives Deep, 1942 is a solitaire game where the player takes command of the German-Italian Panzer Armee Afrika (PAA) during the 1942 campaign in Egypt as Rommel drives on the Suez Canal. The game system plays the Allied Middle East Command (MEC). The game begins immediately  ...More...

Modern War Magazine #48: Block By Block: Battle Of Hue

Block by Block is a two-player conflict simulation of the 1968 Battle of Hue. Players must balance the military difficulties imposed by the challenges of constrained urban warfare and unique terrain of the Hue Citadel, with the overriding considerations of each side's respective political goals.  ...More...

Modern War Magazine #50: Putin Moves East

Putin Moves East is an operational-strategic level two player wargame covering a struggle for control between the Russian led Eurasian Union and a Coalition of opposing states, led by the People's Republic of China, to gain control of the Far East. Among other things, the game presumes a breakdown  ...More...

Strategy And Tactics Issue #323: Rangers Lead The Way

Rangers: Lead The Way is a solitaire simulation of the US Army Ranger assault on the Pointe du Hoc on D-Day. The game challenges the player to do better than the actual Ranger attack up the cliffs that historic morning and additionally allows the player to fight the battle using the planned, rather  ...More...

Strategy And Tactics Issue #324: Fight The Fall: Faesulae And Tricamerum

Fight The Fall: Faesulae A.D. 405 & Tricamerum A.D. 533 is a two-player wargame system that simulates the battles that occurred during the era AD 376 to 560, roughly the time from when the Goths crossed the Danube to the Byzantine reconquest of the west. The game system emphasizes command control,  ...More...

Strategy And Tactics Issue #326: Mukden 1905

Mukden 1905 is a two-player simulation (easily adapted for solitaire play) of the climactic struggle of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05. Both players have the opportunity to attack and defend, but the main burden of the offensive is on the Japanese player. Scale: Each hex represents three miles  ...More...

World At War Magazine #74: Munich War 1938

Munich War 1938 is a two player operational level simulation of a hypothetical World War II in Europe that began in the fall of 1938. The assumption is that the British and French governments did not back down at the September 1938 Munich conference when Hitler demanded the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia  ...More...

World At War Magazine #76: Operation Jupiter: Churchill's Plan To Invade Norway 1942

Operation Jupiter: Churchill's Plan to Invade Norway, 1942 is a two-player wargame simulating the possible events that could have unfolded during the first 30 days of this planned but never run World War II campaign. The British prime minister had intended it as a strategic alternative for Operation  ...More...

Strategy And Tactics Quarterly 2: America In WWI

America in World War I: In April 1917, the United States entered World War I and the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) proved decisive in the ensuing Allied victory on the Western Front. Yet, a mere 10 years prior the US military was woefully unprepared for war.

Strategy And Tactics Issue #334: Rio Grande War

Rio Grande War is a two-player wargame on a hypothetical war between the United States and the Empire of Mexico following the American Civil War. The assumption is that France's Napoleon III decided to back up Maximilian with the French army to maintain his power in Mexico, and the US responded with  ...More...

Strategy And Tactics Quarterly 17: Napoleon's Art Of Battle

Napoleon's Art of Battle: System or Genius? The rise of Napoleon Bonaparte to the French throne stemmed from a series of battlefield victories over the armies of every European dynasty. Those battles were sought by Napoleon after careful planning and maneuver to give him the edge on the contested  ...More...

World At War Magazine #82: Watch On The Oder: January 1945

Watch on the Oder: January 1945 is a hypothetical two-player game allowing the players to examine the strategic possibilities inherent in the campaign that may have taken place had Hitler decided to send the forces he used historically in the Ardennes to the eastern front.

World At War Magazine #83: Operation Causeway: Formosa 1944

Operation Causeway: Formosa 1944 is an operational-level two player wargame covering the planned but never executed Allied invasion of the Allied island of Formosa in World War II. Had the operation been executed, it would have been the largest amphibious invasion of the Pacific Theater of Operations.  ...More...

Strategy And Tactics Quarterly 18: Korea After Chosin

Korea–After Chosin: Korea is often referred to as the Forgotten War. Even among military history enthusiasts, not much is known about the battles and campaigns beyond Pusan, Inchon, and Chosin. The issue goes in depth from the First Chinese Counteroffensive to Pork Chop Hill and the Armistice.

World At War Magazine #84: Manstein's War

Manstein's War: Decision in the West 1940 is a two-player wargame of the German offensive in Western Europe in May-June 1940 in which the Wehrmacht seized a stunning victory over Allied forces in the Low Countries and France. The game uses a variant of the Boots system to model command, control,  ...More...

World At War Magazine #85: Budapest

Budapest Campaign: October 1944 to February 1945 is a wargame of the Soviet offensive in Hungary in late 1944 and early 1945 which culminated in the conquest of the city of Budapest. Throughout this campaign the Axis launched successive counterattacks which regained ground but, in the end, failed  ...More...

Strategy And Tactics Issue #337: Caporetto: The Italian Front 1917-1918

Expected Sep-22 (liable to change without notice), see our Terms for Pre-Orders.
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Caporetto: The Italian Front 1917-1918 is a two-player wargame of the last year of the Italian Front, from the Central Powers' offensive of the Fall of 1917 until the end of the war in October 1918. In this game, both players command two powerful but fragile forces: the armies of Italy and Austria-Hungary  ...More...

Strategy And Tactics Quarterly 19: French And Indian War

French & Indian War: This issue will dig into the details of the French & Indian War, a remote corner of the Seven Years War where small battles and campaigns determined the outcome for a continent.

World At War Magazine #86: The Chaco War 1932-1935

The Chaco War was fought out by two landlocked countries, Bolivia and Paraguay in South America. On paper, the Bolivians should win handily: they enjoyed a three to one superiority in manpower against the Paraguayans. However, to reach the front the Bolivians had to overcome long lines of communication,  ...More...

World At War Magazine #88: Kesselring

W94 Kesselring's War: Decision in Italy 1943-44 (Joseph Miranda) is an operational level two player wargame covering the campaign in Sicily and southern Italy, July 1943 to February 1944. The game covers the months from Operation Husky through the initial landings in the southern peninsula up to  ...More...

Strategy And Tactics Quarterly 21: Byzantium

Byzantium: The Byzantine Empire dominated the Eastern Mediterranean from the Fall of Rome in AD 476 to the final siege of Constantinople 1453. This new STQ covers a millennium of conflict, controversy and civilization. It includes analyses of strategies and tactics, histories of wars big and small,  ...More...

World At War Magazine #89: Crimean Campaign

The Crimean Campaign, 1941 -42 (TCC) is a strategic level two-player wargame (with strong operational undertones) of low-intermediate complexity covering the fighting across the peninsula that climaxed with the German capture of Sevastopol. The action simulated in the game took place historically  ...More...

Strategy And Tactics Quarterly 22: Guderian's Panzers

Guderian's Panzers: From Triumph to Defeat: Operation Barbarossa, which had commenced with such promise for Guderian's panzers, and for the eastern army at large, ended in catastrophic failure. How did it come to pass that, with each dazzling victory in the east, final victory seemed to move further  ...More...

World At War Magazine #90: Great European War

Great European War is a two-player game of an alternative World War II in Europe, based on the premise that Adolf Hitler did not order the invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941. Instead, the Axis goes over to a naval-air offensive against the British with additional operations in North Africa  ...More...

Strategy And Tactics Quarterly 23: War Of 1812

War of 1812: Rise of a Nation: The War of 1812 is sometimes called the Second American Revolution. The war saw the new United States engage Great Britain in North America and on the high seas, to include dramatic moments like the burning of Washington DC. The War of 1812 in many ways led to the foundations  ...More...

World At War Magazine #91: Stalin's First Victory And Battle of Taierzhuang

W91 Stalin's First Victory (1929) & The Battle of Taierzhuang (1938) This game includes two separate and distinct battles. Both battles use many of the same rules and concepts, however for ease of play, the rules are separated into two distinct rule sets. The first set of rules cover Stalin's First  ...More...

Strategy And Tactics Issue #344: The Great Turkish War

Expected Q1 2024 (liable to change without notice), see our Terms for Pre-Orders.
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The Great Turkish War is a low- to intermediate-complexity, two-player, strategic-level wargame simulating the fight for the Balkans and the Eastern reaches of the Holy Roman Empire in the late 17th century. In 1683, the Ottomans launched their last major offensive on Vienna. The siege failed thanks  ...More...

Strategy And Tactics Issue #345: Tanks Of August

Expected Mar-24 (liable to change without notice), see our Terms for Pre-Orders.
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Tanks of August is a two-player game of the conflict in Georgia and the two separatist entities of South Ossetia and Abkhazia during mid-August 2008. The Russian player is attempting to destabilize Georgia, destroy infrastructure and her armed forces, and render it unable to join NATO, thus leaving  ...More...

Strategy And Tactics Issue #346: Battles Of Andrew Jackson

Expected May-24 (liable to change without notice), see our Terms for Pre-Orders.
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Andrew Jackson's Battles is a tactical simulation of battles on the American frontier during the early 19th century, concentrating on the two major actions (Horseshoe Bend and New Orleans) in which Andrew Jackson participated. While these battles often involved relatively small armies for the era,  ...More...