Strategy & Tactics volume 1 nr 1 - January 1967 !!!!!

Recently, I came in possession of a heap of scanned PDF's of an old wargame magazine, and I mean OLD.

Because this very first issue of Strategy & Tactics - A Journal of American Wargaming is over 50 years old now.

The 12 page long magazine is nowwhere comparable to today's magazines, first of all of course being all black and white.  Produced because back then, under the "push" by Avalon Hill, wargaming began to boom.  Now, it wasn't like all miniatures and such, we are talking the card counter type games, but the seeds of our hoby where laid down back then.

But there is a section on wargaming with miniatures in the magazine, detailing battles on 6 by 6 tables, with 40 to 50 models of 54mm per side as back then rather standard, because the HO train scale provided excellent scenery for the games.  And it contains a "how to" to build your own Regulation Wargames table

Using variant rules on Avalon Hill's Battle of the Bulge is tackled as one of the main articles in the magazine, to provide more "correct" positions of units, as well as rules for Remagen bridgehead...

Surely a fascinating read to see how it all went down half a century ago, and I'll post about the issues in the coming month as I'll scroll through them!