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Magazines

In the pre-electronic age, magazines were a commonly used method of creating bonds throughout the wargaming community, across nations and around the world. The timeline mentions some of the more significant titles, but in addition to the industry's leading magazines, fanzines also contributed to the sense of community, particularly for individual games. In the electronic age, paper magazines have still continued to play a leading role in shaping the wargaming community, alongside newer media such as internet site, forums, and blogs.

Guide to Significant English Language Miniatures Periodicals
Title	First Printed	Publisher	Coverage	Final Issue	Notes
War Game Digest	1957	Jack Scruby	Miniatures	1963	Started by Jack Scruby.
Table Top Talk	1962	Jack Scruby	Miniatures	1967	Started by Jack Scruby.
The Courier	1968	Courier Publishing Company	Miniatures	2005	Originally the newsletter of the New England Wargaming Association. Content was folded into Historical Miniature Gamer Magazine in 2005.
Command Post / Command Post Quarterly	1990	Game Designer's Workshop	GDW's Command Decision	1998	Exclusive coverage for Command Decision line of games; an evolution of the earlier Command Post newsletter into a quarterly magazine.
Guide to Significant English Language Board Wargaming Periodicals
Title	First Printed	Publisher	Coverage	Final Issue	Notes
The General	1964	The Avalon Hill Game Company	House organ for Avalon Hill	1998	The first dedicated wargaming magazine; carried no outside advertising and was restricted to game and specialty shops.
Strategy & Tactics	1967	Project Analysis (iss 1-16) SPI (iss 17-91) TSR (iss 91-111) 3W (iss112-139) Decision Games (140-)	Universal	n/a	Originally created by Sergeant Chris Wagner, purchased by Jim Dunnigan and Simulations Publications, Inc. in 1969. First magazine to produce a magazine in each issue.
Panzerfaust Campaign	1967	Don Lowry	Universal	1982	Created by Don Greenwood, later editor of The General; like S&T, Panzerfaust included games; it became Campaign in January 1976.
Conflict	1972	SDC	Universal	1974	A 32 page magazine covering unit studies, military history and new games, similar to early issues of S&T; intended as a revival of Tactics and Variants.
Moves (initial run)	1972	SPI	House organ for SPI	1981	Created by Jim Dunnigan.
Fire & Movement	1976	Diverse Talents, Inc. 3W Decision Games	Universal	n/a	Created by Rodger MacGowan.
Phoenix	1976	SimPubs Ltd.	Universal	1982	British subsidiary of SPI printed and distributed in the UK which lasted 35 issues. Focus on SPI games, considered a British version of Moves. The magazine covered wargames, especially those by SPI.
The Wargamer Vol 1	1977	3W	Universal	1986	Included a game in each issue.
The Grenadier	1978	GDW (iss 1-12) J. Tibbetts and Son (iss 13-35)	Universal	1990	Originally a house organ for GDW but soon evolved to include discussion of other company's games as well.
Breakout	1981	Conflict Simulations of Australia	Universal	1991	Quarterly magazine produced in Australia; produced 45 issues and two specials.
Battleplan	1987	Diverse Talents, Inc. (iss 1-6) 3W (iss 7-9)	Universal	1989	Merged with The Wargamer Vol 2 to reintroduce Moves.
The Wargamer Vol 2	1987	Decision Games	Universal	1990	Focus was directed at covering S&T games, but provided coverage of the hobby as a whole. Deleted in favour of reintroducing Moves magazine.
CounterAttack	1987	J. Tibbetts/Pacific Rim Publishing	History focused	1988	Pacific Rim was formed to purchase S&T; when that didn't happen, CounterAttack was created. It ran for four issues, each with a game included, none at the tactical level.
Command	1989	XTR	History focused	2001	Focused on history and its own games, published with a game in each issue (with non-game versions also sold on newsstands). Total run of 54 issues, none of the games covered modern tactical subjects.
Moves (second run)	1991	Decision Games	Universal	n/a	A second run of Moves was started in 1991 when Decision Games ceased publication of The Wargamer. Changed focus away from wargames after issue 101.
Operations	1991	The Gamers Multi-Man Publishing	House organ for The Gamers House organ for MMP	n/a	A magazine devoted to The Gamers' line, later changed to MMP when the latter bought out the former.
Paper Wars	1991	Omega Games	Universal	n/a	Originally Wargame Collector's Journal, renamed after issue 8.
Zone of Control	1995	John Kisner	Universal	1996	Dubbed the "Voice of American Wargaming", the run lasted eight issues.
The Boardgamer	1996	Bruce A. Monnin	Covered games by Avalon Hill and Victory Games.	2004	Published by Bruce A. Monnin and "intended to be a compilation of quality articles on the strategy, tactics, and variants for a variety of board, sports and card games."
World at War	2008	Strategy & Tactics Press (Decision Games)	Second World War	n/a	Published in the same format as Strategy & Tactics with space devoted to feature articles on the Western, Mediterranean, Eastern Fronts and the Pacific Theatre as well as other campaigns, with a game in each issue.