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Strategy & Tactics
Strategy & Tactics (S&T) is a wargaming magazine now published by Decision Games, notable for publishing a new wargame in each issue.[citation needed]
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. When subscriptions became stagnant, debts began to accumulate. Jim Dunnigan created the company Simulations Publications to save Strategy & Tactics; Dunnigan had been contributing to the magazine since issue #2 (February 1967), and when Wagner was having financial difficulties he sold the rights to the magazine to Dunnigan for $1. A persistent rumor that Dunnigan had purchased S&T from Wagner for one dollar, and that furthermore the dollar was not paid until much later, was confirmed by Wagner during an interview printed in S&T issue #83 (The Kaiser's Battle).
Dunnigan set up his new company SPI in a building in New York City's Lower East Side, where he published his first issue, Strategy & Tactics #18 (September 1969); starting with that issue, every issue included a new wargame. Albert Nofi became an associate editor on the magazine in 1969. The first game published in issue #18 was Crete. This challenged the cautious policy of Avalon Hill in publishing only one or two games per year (for fear of new games cannibalizing sales of old ones). Despite the diversity in themes, the style of the games was fairly consistent.
In addition to the games, the magazine featured many articles on military history, many of them notable for applying modern quantitative analysis to battles that had traditionally been described in a narrative "heroic" style.[citation needed]
Avalon Hill continued to produce games other than wargames, such as party games, sports titles, and children's games. Dunnigan's focus remained primarily on military history, and he felt that there was a market for detailed historical articles as an accompaniment to detailed and accurate games. S&T now provides six new games a year. Circulation of the magazine was substantial and games that might not otherwise sell went to subscribers automatically. SPI also benefited from having the magazine as an advertising vehicle for boxed (i.e. non-magazine) games, sold directly or through local games stores.
In 1972, Strategy & Tactics spun off Moves magazine, which was focused more on how to play the games.
S&T's circulation exceeded that of Avalon Hill's The General by the mid-1970s, improving its physical appearance under the guidance of Redmond Simonsen. As die-cut counters, printed on both sides in full color became more popular, they were included in the magazine games, as were two color and finally full color maps.
Strategy & Tactics
Strategy & Tactics (S&T) is a wargaming magazine now published by Decision Games, notable for publishing a new wargame in each issue.[citation needed]
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. When subscriptions became stagnant, debts began to accumulate. Jim Dunnigan created the company Simulations Publications to save Strategy & Tactics; Dunnigan had been contributing to the magazine since issue #2 (February 1967), and when Wagner was having financial difficulties he sold the rights to the magazine to Dunnigan for $1. A persistent rumor that Dunnigan had purchased S&T from Wagner for one dollar, and that furthermore the dollar was not paid until much later, was confirmed by Wagner during an interview printed in S&T issue #83 (The Kaiser's Battle).
Dunnigan set up his new company SPI in a building in New York City's Lower East Side, where he published his first issue, Strategy & Tactics #18 (September 1969); starting with that issue, every issue included a new wargame. Albert Nofi became an associate editor on the magazine in 1969. The first game published in issue #18 was Crete. This challenged the cautious policy of Avalon Hill in publishing only one or two games per year (for fear of new games cannibalizing sales of old ones). Despite the diversity in themes, the style of the games was fairly consistent.
In addition to the games, the magazine featured many articles on military history, many of them notable for applying modern quantitative analysis to battles that had traditionally been described in a narrative "heroic" style.[citation needed]
Avalon Hill continued to produce games other than wargames, such as party games, sports titles, and children's games. Dunnigan's focus remained primarily on military history, and he felt that there was a market for detailed historical articles as an accompaniment to detailed and accurate games. S&T now provides six new games a year. Circulation of the magazine was substantial and games that might not otherwise sell went to subscribers automatically. SPI also benefited from having the magazine as an advertising vehicle for boxed (i.e. non-magazine) games, sold directly or through local games stores.
In 1972, Strategy & Tactics spun off Moves magazine, which was focused more on how to play the games.
S&T's circulation exceeded that of Avalon Hill's The General by the mid-1970s, improving its physical appearance under the guidance of Redmond Simonsen. As die-cut counters, printed on both sides in full color became more popular, they were included in the magazine games, as were two color and finally full color maps.