Strategy & Tactics (S&T) is a wargaming magazine now published by Decision Games, notable for publishing a new wargame in each issue.

Beginnings

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. It was distributed in Japan at first, then moving to the United States with Wagner.

Graphic designer Redmond Simonsen was hired soon after to improve the quality of the magazine.

Awards and value

Strategy & Tactics won thirteen Charles S. Roberts/Origins Awards between 1974 and 2009, and in 1997 the magazine was inducted into the Adventure Gaming Hall of Fame.

Back issues of Strategy & Tactics are highly valued by wargame collectors, and some have become quite expensive. S&T magazine games that have not been played and have counter sheets intact ("unpunched") are worth much more than played ("punched") games.

Reviews

  • Perfidious Albion #9 (September 1976) p. 19
  • Perfidious Albion #10 (October 1976) p. 17
  • Perfidious Albion #45 (February 1980) p.19
  • Perfidious Albion #48 (October 1980) p.19
  • Perfidious Albion #51 (September 1981) p.19

See also

  • For Your Eyes Only (magazine)

References

  • Strategy & Tactics homepage
  • Index of Articles and Games in Strategy & Tactics Issues #1 to #90
  • Checklist of Strategy & Tactics issues
  • Review in the Chicago Tribune